Lavrov issues call for new Eurasian ‘security architecture’

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of the Russian Federation addresses the General Debate of the UN General Assembly’s 81st session.

Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, accused Western countries of destabilising the world through “force and double standards” in his address to the UN General Assembly on Saturday, vowing that Moscow's “special military operation” in Ukraine would be “carried through to the end.”

Quoting President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Lavrov said “the dictatorship of a single hegemon has run amok and is simply dangerous for everyone around it,” arguing that a fairer, multipolar order was emerging as countries of the Global South and East asserted themselves as “sovereign centres of development.”

Mr. Lavrov condemned the United States' seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife earlier this year, and their “extrajudicial detention” in the US, calling for their immediate release.

He also denounced the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with members of his family and military and political leadership, as “another unacceptable manifestation of coercive diktat.”

He said the wider US-Israeli campaign had also struck Iranian nuclear facilities under the IAEA safeguards, causing “irreparable damage” to the non-proliferation system overseen by the UN-backed nuclear energy watchdog.

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