MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Russia will re-examine its commitments to international organizations should it continue to be discriminated against there, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"As a matter of fact, the West is demolishing the system it built in the post-war period to serve its own financial, economic, and trade interests. In such an environment, our obligations to organizations practicing openly discriminatory approaches, where the charter principle of the equality of participants is not observed, where consensus procedures are violated, will be reviewed. This process has already started. In some cases, there will be a cardinal revision," he said at a gala meeting on Diplomatic Worker’s Day.
According to the top Russian diplomat, the West is using international organizations as an instrument of hybrid war in its striving for imperial dominance whereas any efforts to reform global governance institutions, which were established after Western models, are being blocked. This, according to Lavrov, can be said about the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization.
"The situation today, where Russia observes its commitments in good faith while the other side doesn't, isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, and must be corrected. If, for reasons beyond our control, this cannot be done, then it makes no sense to cling to international structures where things are run by countries with unfriendly governments," he added.
The minister called for moving ahead and not waiting for the situation to return back to what it used to be.