NEW DELHI, September 10. /TASS/. Taking into consideration the new centers of global development, the West will be unable to maintain its dominance and hegemony, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference following the G20 summit.
"The West will not be able to maintain its hegemony, given that new centers of global development emerged objectively a long time ago and are gaining strength," the minister said.
Lavrov added that in the summit's final declaration, "a very healthy solution was found regarding the need to achieve a fair and equitable balance of interests."
Lavrov stressed the importance of the West accurately assessing the outcomes of the G20 summit, taking into account the perspectives of developing countries. "The most important thing at the end of this summit, given the rather serious, turning-point changes in the approaches of the developing world, is that the West draws the right conclusions from what we approved here and from what it saw in the actions of developing countries," he said.
The minister stated that the methods announced by the Indian side hosting the summit "mark the beginning of a very important trend - a transition from agreeing on some papers that are then not fulfilled, to the obligations will still have to be fulfilled." And the developing countries at this summit were much more consolidated and persistent in promoting their fair demands," he underlined.
At the same time, Lavrov stressed that "no one advocates that these demands be implemented to the detriment of the West." "We support the G20. It is, after all, a representative structure comprised of countries accounting for roughly 80% of the global economy, and everyone is interested in cooperating. In working honesty, seeking a balance of interests, and not promoting one's own interests at the expense of the interests of others," he added.