Iran Press/ Europe: "In itself, the war unleashed against us is a geopolitical war…[The West seeks to] remove competitors. This is how we view the situation," Lavrov said Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in an exclusive interview with RT Arabic.
"The denouement of this situation can only be achieved by bearing in mind that this is a geopolitical conflict, an attempt by the West, facing the agony of the epoch in which it dominated, to try to maintain its hegemonic position. This attempt has failed, we understand this very well," Lavrov said.
"The globalization of the West – under the leadership of the United States which was imposed on everyone using instruments which Washington and its closest allies continue to control...has already ended. And now the awareness of the need for the regionalization of development processes predominates. The processes which are now developing – developing especially rapidly in the context of the West’s reaction to our special military operation, when we accepted the challenge thrown before us, these processes unequivocally indicate that self-reliance and independence from any institutions connected to the West is becoming a major trend," Lavrov said.
Earlier on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia's ability to withstand Western sanctions pressure over the past year shows that the "neocolonial international system" which has driven world affairs for decades has "ceased to exist," and that the planet is experiencing geopolitical changes. This is an inevitable process."
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