Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: Russia's Diplomatic Relations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : We explained that it was impossible to talk about strategic stability in a situation when we were declared a strategic enemy that needed to be 'strategically defeated.'"The same US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has called us the enemy more than once.
59% : With this aim in view, we will maintain contacts with the West at the UN.
58% : There were reports and public statements by both the Turkish leaders and the UN.
57% : "Take economic performance data for the EU and US over the past year.
57% : We can observe some movement to preserve national identity and defend their sovereignty within the EU.
57% : Maia Sandu has been turned into a tool for developing the geopolitical space first by the EU and then NATO.
56% : Then, with the help of the EU, an agreement was reached between Belgrade and Pristina on the creation of a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo.
56% : Two months later, though, the EU doubled the number of personnel forgoing on the earlier promise to Baku.
56% : Instead of the well-known Arab Peace Initiative that is supported by everyone at the UN and implies the recognition of Israel by the Arabs after the creation of a Palestinian state, the Americans turned everything upside down and started promoting the Abraham Accords whereby the Arabs were supposed to conclude agreements on diplomatic relations with Israel, and then think about Palestine.
53% : Even before the UN was created, they were nurturing dictators, toppling them, and putting in new ones.
52% : "The Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the United Nations Secretariat that will remain valid for another year and a half is not fulfilled in any of its parts.
50% : "We are seeing the same situation with the UN.
50% : Chisinau plans to hold a referendum on joining the EU in the autumn, but not in Transnistria.
50% : "At the same time, the EU was trying to lure Armenia and Azerbaijan in.
49% : However, as soon as this resolution was adopted, the US representative to the UN said this resolution was non-binding.
47% : After that, the regimes led by Poroshenko and Zelensky systematically adopted laws that destroyed everything that was Russian in Ukraine: higher education followed by secondary and then primary education, culture, mass media and much more.
45% : "On The Attempts Of The West To Increase Its Sphere Of Influence In The Post-Soviet RegionsMoldova Is Becoming A Geopolitical Tool Of The EU
44% : Today, Armenian officials in the Security Council and the parliament of Armenia openly say that they should rely more on the EU because the CSTO is allegedly not honouring its obligations to Armenia.
43% : As part of the EU, it promoted many conflict resolution decisions that no one was going to subsequently implement.
43% : Speaking in the UN, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Vasily Nebenzya said that the Ukrainian leader's sole decision not to hold a presidential campaign would make him illegitimate on May 21, 2024.
40% : These allegations have only one purpose - to compel the parliaments and people of Europe to reconcile with the desire of the EU and the European Commission to continue sending more weapons to Ukraine.
36% : We mention these figures to our Western colleagues at the UN and the OSCE, and they cowardly look the other way.
35% : And there is quite an intense debate underway within the European Union right now with certain food-producing countries demanding that the EU stops importing Ukrainian grain at dumping prices.
33% : Instead of working as part of the Quartet of mediators (Russia, the United States, the EU, and the UN), the US tried to monopolise the peace process and then to replace every principle that underlies this process.
31% : "It's regrettable that we cannot resume the work of the Quartet (Russia, the United States, the UN, and the EU).

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