MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. Russia, as opposed to the West, is offering equality-based relations to its partners in the global majority, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the opening ceremony of the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement.

"I will note the close ties that we are developing with regional integration unions in all parts of the global majority: both with Asian, African and Latin American representatives," Lavrov said. "We have established close relations with all of them and will continue to foster them on an equal, mutually beneficial basis as a constructive alternative to the policy course that the West is trying to promote via international development structures that it controls," he added.

The top Russian diplomat assured the congress attendees that Moscow, together with its allies, partners and associates from the countries in the Global South and East, will continue to work on shaping a more just multipolar world order, "which would take into account the world’s cultural and civilizational diversity and aim to ensure the well-being and prosperity of humankind in its entirety and not just certain elite members from the countries of the so-called 'golden billion' [or 'global 1%']."