The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, considered this Thursday in Ankara that peace negotiations in Ukraine are possible within a “new world order”, as long as the “fair interests” of Russia are taken into account.
In a press conference, together with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, the Russian minister blamed Western countries and the United States for not allowing Ukraine to sit at the peace negotiating table.
“The United States wants to be hegemonic and impose its position on everyone. They want a new unilateral world order,” Lavorov said.
“Negotiations are possible if our just interests are taken into account,” the Russian minister added, adding that Russia is in favor of a new world order according to UN principles and not dominated solely by the United States.
According to Lavrov, the West and the US prevent Ukraine from sitting at the negotiating table, to defeat Russia on the battlefield since “after Russia, the new target will be China.”
The two ministers focused their talks on the war in Ukraine and the grain export agreement, which Russia extended in March for only 60 days.
Çavusoglu stressed the importance of the agreement for international food security, but also stated that the Russian part of the agreement has not been implemented.
“We support the removal of obstacles to the export of Russian grains and fertilizers. The extension of the grain agreement depends on solving these problems,” the Turkish minister said.
“The agreement on grain is applied unilaterally,” Lavrov said, stressing that the agreement reached with the UN was a package that also included the export of Russian grain and fertilizers.
“Cereals and fertilizers are not on the sanctions list. But Western countries are trying to tell us that we cannot export. We are fed up with appealing to consciences. If the situation for our cereals and fertilizers does not improve, we will reconsider whether we needed this agreement,” he concluded. the Russian minister.
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