Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at a meeting with participants in the Znaniye educational marathon, Moscow, August 31, 2022
Diplomacy is primarily an ability to listen, hear and convince. It’s a great regret but over the past few years, especially after the end of the Cold War, everyone thought an era of general welfare had arrived. Some political scientists even announced “the end of history.”
The era we are living in is truly a long historical period.
We have to be ready to count only on ourselves.
We will continue to promote our agenda based on the principles of the UN Charter.
The key principle is respecting the sovereign equality of states.
The prevailing tendencies in the world are those
in favour of returning to the origins of the UN Charter and equal and mutually beneficial cooperation.
