MOSCOW, May 6. /TASS/. No sanctions can break the will of the Russian people, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a flower-laying ceremony dedicated to the Foreign Ministry’s veterans on Friday.
“No punishment, no sanctions can break the will of our people, the will of our leadership, who are determined to defend the historical truth and Russia’s legitimate interests and stop direct threats to our security, culture and history from being created right along our borders, which is what has been going on for years,” he pointed out.
According to Lavrov, the world’s future is being defined at the moment as it is being decided whether there will be a multipolar world order, "fully controlled by the United States, which is what Washington wants and what other Western countries have put up with, or the world will be fair and democratic."
He emphasized that Russia, together "with the vast majority of countries," called for a fair world order. "Our efforts aren’t based on speculations such as the rules that the Americans invented and seek to impose on everyone else, but they are based on the Charter of the United Nations, an organization that was established following World War II," Lavrov added. The Russian top diplomat noted that "those who don’t accept equality and want to dictate to the world are trying to rewrite" the ideals of justice and the sovereign equality of all countries, enshrined in the document.