MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. Russia has been consistently and actively communicating its opposition to unilateral and illegal restrictions imposed without UN Security Council authorization at international forums and will continue its efforts to secure commitments from as many countries as possible not to impose such unilateral measures, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Alexander Trofimov said during a roundtable discussion.

"At the political and diplomatic level, we are working at various international forums on the premise that unilateral coercive measures contradict, if not directly undermine, the principles of international law," he stressed. "Ideally, such measures should have no place whatsoever in international cooperation or international relations," Trofimov added.

The diplomat pointed out that such measures also undermine the principles of cooperation and the sovereign equality of states, as well as the rules governing foreign state immunity. "But we are consistently conveying our position at various forums, including the UN and BRICS, firmly condemning unilateral coercive measures adopted without the authorization of the UN Security Council."

Trofimov noted that this approach is gaining increasing support. "And we are continuing our efforts to bring as many countries as possible under certain commitments. For now, these commitments are largely political and perhaps legal in nature - that commitments that unilateral measures will not be imposed or used and should ultimately be eliminated altogether," he stressed.