UNITED NATIONS, September 23. /TASS/. The task of preventing the slide into an all-out war and the ultimate collapse of international cooperation mechanisms is in line with global interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

"Nowadays, humanity is once again, as many times before, at a crossroads. It depends only on us to determine how history will evolve. It is in our shared interest to prevent spiraling down into a major war as well as the eventual collapse of international cooperation mechanisms that were created by generations of our predecessors," the minister said during the General Debate.

Lavrov recalled that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called earlier for holding "a summit of the future" in 2024.

"The success of this endeavor may be secured exclusively by forming a fair balance of interests among all member states while respecting the intergovernmental nature of our Organization," the Russian foreign minister continued. "At their meeting on September 21, members of the ‘Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter’ agreed to facilitate such a result."

"As Guterres said at a press conference prior to the current session, ‘If we want a future of peace and prosperity based on equity and solidarity, leaders have a special responsibility to achieve compromise in designing our common future for our common good’. It is a good answer to those who divide the world into ‘democracies’ and ‘autocracies’ and merely dictate their neocolonial rules to everyone," the minister concluded.