MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/. Russia will build new forms of interaction with friendly countries that the West won’t be able to influence, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference, summing up the results of Russia’s diplomatic activity in 2022.
"New centers of economic growth are being formed. The West tries to impede this process, in particular, through speculations on the mechanisms that were set up to serve its interests within the globalization that it created. Of course, the role of the US dollar as a reserve currency is one of the main speculations here," Lavrov pointed out.
"This is why, we are taking all efforts within the framework of our contact with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS and other structures, surely such as the CIS and the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as in cooperation with the associations of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to build new forms of interaction in order not to depend on the West and on its neo-colonial methods as it has now become clear, and this is what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin spoke about sincerely and explicitly. These methods were invented to rob the entire world already in new conditions," Russia’s top diplomat pointed out.
The West tries in every possible way to halt the objective process of the emergence of a multi-polar world, Lavrov said.
"Nonetheless, this frenzied attempt involving any means possible and prohibited methods to ensure the dominance of the United States and the rest of the West that Washington has made fully submissive, this frenzy reflects after all the understanding that historically they act against the objective course of events and actually try to halt the formation of a multi-polar world," he added.
"We will be building such forms of interaction with our reliable partners and friendly countries that will benefit us and that those who seek to subordinate the entire world won’t be able to influence," the Russian foreign minister stressed.