Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting of Russia-the Islamic World GSV with ambassadors from the OIC Member States (Moscow, March 6, 2023)
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As Eurasia’s largest country and a state-civilisation, Russia maintains
good, honest and mutually respectful relations with the countries of the Islamic world; the
continuing strengthening of these relations is among the unwavering priorities of Russia’s foreign policy.
We are united by a commitment to the cultural and civilisational diversity of the peoples of the world and their right to determine their own paths for political and socioeconomic development.
In conjunction with our friends from the Muslim states, we stand for building a
more just and democratic multipolar world order based on UN Charter principles. We reject the ultra-liberal values that are being aggressively imposed on everyone by the collective West.
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Russia-Islamic World Group of Strategic Vision was created in 2006 and is the core mechanism underlying our dialogue and our efforts to promote promising and mutually beneficial projects. It is now led by Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.
Over the past years, various useful initiatives designed to help strengthen the atmosphere of
friendship, trust and mutual understanding between our countries and peoples have been launched as part of this group.
