Lavrov Previews Putin Speech, Targets Obama’s Crimes

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov previewed President Putin’s speech at the UN in an interview with Russia’s First Channel TV on Sunday.

He said this is “not a routine” UN meeting, because it is “a jubilee session.” Putin will address Russia’s views on key issues.

First on the list is the U.S. effort to prevent the rise of the BRICS nations (expressed diplomatically):

“[f]irst of all [are] the systematic problems, emerging in connection with the attempts to restrain the objective process of formatting of a new multi-polar world order, which could reflect the objective formation of new centres for economic, financial might and for political influence,”

Lavrov said, as translated by TASS.

Second, U.S. cooperation with terrorists:

“From this come the topics we all know: fighting terrorism, which should be free of double standards, terrorists cannot be divided into good and bad, it is useless to suppose it may be possible to cooperate with some of those `bad’ extremists in order to achieve some narrow geo-political objectives.”

Then, U.S. unilateral imperialist policies:

“Besides, there is the problem of unilateral means of coercion, and not only against the Russian Federation…. [the] Western counterparts, first of all under the influence of the American psychology, are losing the culture of dialogues and diplomatic settlement.”

“The Iranian nuclear programme was an outstanding and extremely rare exception,” Lavrov said, while in most cases, which continue to emerge in the Middle East and Northern Africa, they “are trying to use measures of force, direct interference, like it was in Iraq and Libya, thus violating decisions of the UN Security Council, or to use sanctions.”

They impose some political process, he said, on the domestic situations, “be that in Yemen or South Sudan,” and try to control it from the outside. Lavrov concluded:

“This approach, if it were more firmly based on agreements of the parties, not only on advice from outside, could be more viable. As soon as such a system begins ‘slipping,’ which is inevitable in cases of imposed solutions, they immediately take out their ‘sanctions truncheons’ in the desire to punish those who would not observe their approach,”

“President Putin will be speaking about it and about the problem of crushing of the world economic space, as now, in the framework of the WTO, we do not have effective progress in talks on universal approaches to new spheres of economic and technological relations between countries…He will also touch upon certain detailed aspects, like Syria or the Ukrainian crisis. All the crises of the kind develop from systemic problems in the attempts to freeze the process of forming the poly-centre world.”

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