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Russia to forge ahead with its policies regardless of threats — Lavrov

The top diplomat believes that Russia's alleged isolation from the rest of the world is "a figment of a great imagination"

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Russia will continue to carry out its policies, and no accusations or threats will be able to sway these policies, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a special meeting on the occasion of Diplomatic Worker's Day on Friday.

"We would like to emphasize once again that no accusations or threats in response to our decisions to ensure vital national interests have influenced our activities or will ever be able to influence them," he said.

Lavrov believes that Russia's alleged isolation from the rest of the world is "a figment of a great imagination."

In reality, international isolation is the fate of those "who flagrantly violate the UN Charter, who committed criminal acts of armed aggression against Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, who stained themselves with the bloody crimes of colonialism and who now wish to employ the same colonial practices against every other country in the world."

"And, of course, deep isolation is the place for those who annually vote against or abstain on the General Assembly resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism," he concluded.