NEW DELHI: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday he attacked the West, accusing the United States and others of trying to involve India in “anti-China games” through the Indo-Pacific concept and undermining Russia’s ties with India.
At a meeting of the Russian Council on International Affairs state think tank via video link, Lavrov said the West is seeking to restore the unipolar world order that would include all states except Russia and China, with which it would deal more. late.
“Poles” like Russia and China are unlikely to be subordinate to him, Lavrov said. “However, India was currently the target of the persistent, aggressive and devious policy of the Western countries as they are trying to involve it in anti-China games promoting the Indo-Pacific strategies, the ‘Quad’, while at the same time the West it is trying to undermine our close association and privileged relations with India, ”he said. This is the objective of the very harsh pressure from the United States on New Delhi in the area of MTC (military and technical cooperation), he added.
Russia has been consistent in its opposition to the Indo-Pacific strategy, saying its main goal is to contain China. India, however, argues that the Indo-Pacific is a free, open, transparent and inclusive concept with Asean in its center and that does not exclude any country.
Rejecting objective trends toward the formation of a multipolar world, the US-led West has launched a game. It has postponed Russia and China for later and is trying to attract everyone else to a unipolar world, “Lavrov added.
He said G20 it is the only mechanism outside the UN Security Council where it is still possible to “reach an agreement based on a balance of interests.” “He represents the so-called G7, the BRICS countries and affirms that before (sic) they share the philosophy of the BRICS than that of the G7,” Lavrov said.
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