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NATO disrespected Russia's position because of its desire to rule the world — Lavrov

The Russian foreign minister added that Russia will continue to defend the principles of international law and the UN Charter, which the West violates by all means while promoting the concept of unipolarity

MANAMA, May 31. /TASS/. NATO has refused to respect Russia's security initiatives in a bid to rule the entire world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday at a joint press conference following talks with his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.

In particular, he told the Bahraini leadership about Russia's efforts over the past 15 years to "reliably ensure security on the European continent and the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole," and about Moscow's numerous initiatives that "have not received respectful consideration, respectful response" from NATO and the US itself. "This situation has shown the desire of our Western partners to conduct business not on the basis of equality, not on the basis of the principles of the UN Charter, including the principle of respect for the sovereign equality of states, but on the basis of diktat, their irreparable conviction that they are destined to rule the entire world," the minister stressed.

Lavrov added that Russia will continue to defend the principles of international law and the UN Charter, which the West violates by all means while promoting the concept of unipolarity. "According to this concept, the West decides everything. In doing so, NATO plays the role of global policeman, it is not a defensive alliance. It plays the role of ensuring global security, including, as they say, in the Indo-Pacific region, openly announcing the need to contain the People's Republic of China, Russia, of course. And the concept of a rules-based order assumes that this dominance of the West takes place with the United States in charge of everything," the Russian foreign minister explained.