🎙 Excerpt from Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Tucker Carlson(Moscow, December 5, 2024)
❓Question: In the last month since the election [in the US], you have all sorts of things going on politically in bordering states in this region. In Georgia, in Belarus, in Romania, and then, of course, most dramatically in Syria, you have turmoil.
Does this seem like part of an effort by the US to make the resolution more difficult?
💬Sergey Lavrov: There is nothing new, frankly. Because the US, historically, in foreign policy, was motivated by making some trouble and then to see if they can fish in the muddy water.
Iraqi aggression, Libyan adventure — ruining the state, basically. Fleeing from Afghanistan. Now trying to get back through the back door, using the UN to organize some ‘event’ where the US can be present, in spite of the fact that they left Afghanistan in very bad shape and arrested money and don't want to give it back.
❗️ I think this is, if you analyze the American foreign policy steps, adventures, most of them are the right word — the pattern. They create some trouble, and then they see how to use it.
When the OSCE monitors elections, when it used to monitor elections in Russia, they would always be very negative, and in other countries as well, Belarus, Kazakhstan. This time, in Georgia, the monitoring mission of OSCE presented a positive report. And it is being ignored.
🤷♂️ So when you need endorsement of the procedures, you do it when you like the results of the election. If you don't like the results of elections, you ignore it.
It's like when the US and other Western countries recognized unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, they said this is the self-determination being implemented. There was no referendum in Kosovo — unilateral declaration of independence. By the way, after that the Serbs approached International Court of Justice, which ruled that (well, normally they are not very specific in their judgment, but they ruled) that when part of a territory declares independence, it is not necessarily to be agreed with the central authorities.
And when a few years later, Crimeans were holding referendum with invitation of many international observers, not from international organizations, but from parliamentarians in Europe, in Asia, in post-Soviet space, they said, no, we cannot accept this because this is violation of territorial integrity.
☝️ You know, you pick and choose. The UN Charter is not a menu. You have to respect it in all its entirety.
🎙 Excerpt from Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Tucker Carlson(Moscow, December 5, 2024)
❓Question: In the last month since the election [in the US], you have all sorts of things going on politically in bordering states in this region. In Georgia, in Belarus, in Romania, and then, of course, most dramatically in Syria, you have turmoil.
Does this seem like part of an effort by the US to make the resolution more difficult?
💬Sergey Lavrov: There is nothing new, frankly. Because the US, historically, in foreign policy, was motivated by making some trouble and then to see if they can fish in the muddy water.
Iraqi aggression, Libyan adventure — ruining the state, basically. Fleeing from Afghanistan. Now trying to get back through the back door, using the UN to organize some ‘event’ where the US can be present, in spite of the fact that they left Afghanistan in very bad shape and arrested money and don't want to give it back.
❗️ I think this is, if you analyze the American foreign policy steps, adventures, most of them are the right word — the pattern. They create some trouble, and then they see how to use it.
When the OSCE monitors elections, when it used to monitor elections in Russia, they would always be very negative, and in other countries as well, Belarus, Kazakhstan. This time, in Georgia, the monitoring mission of OSCE presented a positive report. And it is being ignored.
🤷♂️ So when you need endorsement of the procedures, you do it when you like the results of the election. If you don't like the results of elections, you ignore it.
It's like when the US and other Western countries recognized unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, they said this is the self-determination being implemented. There was no referendum in Kosovo — unilateral declaration of independence. By the way, after that the Serbs approached International Court of Justice, which ruled that (well, normally they are not very specific in their judgment, but they ruled) that when part of a territory declares independence, it is not necessarily to be agreed with the central authorities.
And when a few years later, Crimeans were holding referendum with invitation of many international observers, not from international organizations, but from parliamentarians in Europe, in Asia, in post-Soviet space, they said, no, we cannot accept this because this is violation of territorial integrity.
☝️ You know, you pick and choose. The UN Charter is not a menu. You have to respect it in all its entirety.
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