MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. The Group of Seven has degraded irreversibly, turning into an incubator for destructive initiatives, the Russian foreign ministry said on Sunday, commenting on the G7 summit in Hiroshima.
"The Group of Seven used to be an association whose members coordinated their positions on various issues on the global agenda. But now, it has degraded irreversibly," the ministry said. "It has turned into an incubator for nursing, under the leadership of the Anglo-Saxons, destructive initiatives which shake loose the global stability. And then they are imposed on the pro-American crowd from among NATO countries, the European Union and other Washington’s satellites."
According to the ministry, a set of anti-Russian and anti-Chinese statements became the result of the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima. "A summit of the so-called Group of Seven has finished in Japan’s Hiroshima. It key outcome is a set of statements filled with odious passages of the anti-Russian and anti-Chinese character. <…> The Group of Seven countries do not hesitate to flirt with non-Western states in order to win them over to its side and not let develop ties with Russia and China," it said.
"Everything is being done to politicize the activity of multilateral format, first of all of a more representative in terms of the number of participants and a really leading global economic cooperation forum - the Group of Twenty. The G7 countries’ attempts to present themselves as advocates of law and justice in international affairs are a mockery of history and common sense," the ministry stressed. "It is obvious that the Group of Seven is a major factor of the aggravation of global problems. It cannot represent interests of other centers of development, especially countries of the Asia Pacific region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America."
The ministry slammed G7’s statements about the need for combating the mythical Russian nuclear threat as hypocritical. "The US leaders’ discourse about the ‘leadership’ in the sphere of arms control and nonproliferation looks hypocritical. As do the G7’s lamentation about the need to struggle against the mythical Russian nuclear threat. We have said it more than once in a well-grounded manner where the treat really comes from. It is not Moscow but Washington, London and other capitals of the collective West," it said.
According to the ministry, the rules the association is insisting on serve only its own interests and the independent policy of third countries is considered by it as a threat. At the same time, G7 businesses continue to plunder resources of the global East and South, it added.
"Each of the G7 countries is boasting its reputation in the sphere of the advocacy of democratic values. But in fact, neither of the members of this club can boast a clean reputation in terms of respect to international rights and freedoms," the ministry stressed.
"The G7 members should better demonstrate a model of democracy instead of setting media and non-government organizations they control against government they cannot control. We see the ‘humane’ ways of settling the migration problem and the methods of ‘pacifying’ social unrest in Europe, or the way the opposition in the United States is clamped down on. For years, the West has been patronizing the Nazi Kiev regime, turning a blind eye on its atrocities. We have asked more than once what it has to do with the European ideals of humanism and democratic values. No response from the West," the ministry stressed.