MINSK, October 26. /TASS/. Russia currently doesn’t see any chances for constructive communication with Western nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a Eurasian security conference in Belarus.
"As long as they, practically the majority of them, are completely, subordinate to Washington, we do not see any prospects of a meaningful conversation with the vast majority of these countries today. They are not visible," he said at the high-level conference entitled Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World.
Lavrov said Russia, as a matter of principle, is always ready to work together if the Western neighbors on the continent "find the strength to become independent and gain the very strategic autonomy that [French President Emmanuel] Macron and a number of other leaders are talking about."
"If they are able to abandon neocolonial instincts and completely ideologized confrontational policies and return to the path of pragmatic, mutually respectful collaboration to find a balance of interests," the minister said.
In this regard, the Russian foreign minister welcomed the participation of his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto in the conference.
"His participation testifies to the fact that the leadership in Budapest sees the possibilities of using the natural competitive advantages of cooperation between the countries of our common continent and the importance of this cooperation for the national interests of Hungary for the sake of more effective development of their country for the benefit of its citizens," Lavrov stated.