03:45Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commenting upon incorporation of four new entities into Russian Federation claimed 'it would have been better for countries all over the world to have realised the new reality'. The speech has been delivered during a plenary session of the Russian Council in Moscow on Tuesday.
"We see how full of anti-Russian sentiment the West is, we see how it clearly feels the lack of convincing arguments in its position and tries to intimidate all the other countries, especially developing countries, Asia, Africa, Latin America, with threats, blackmail, to demand that they should condemn Russia," said Lavrov.
The minister added that such behavior once again underscores the 'weakness of the West's position'.
"If you feel you are right, so, you state what you think about this or that international event and let everyone else decide for themselves as adult people. In this case whose arguments are more convincing - Russia and those residents of Donbass, Ukraine who do not want to remain under a neo-Nazi regime, or the arguments of the collective West, which has proclaimed Ukraine to be a concentration of democracy and has vowed to fight to the last Ukrainian in order to weaken, if not dismember, the Russian Federation," Lavrov stated.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed confidence of the current situation when the 'vast majority of countries perfectly understand the rightness of the Russian side'.
"Not all have enough courage, or just enough strength, to speak directly about it objectively. But the vast majority refuses to align themselves with the steps that the West is taking in the economy and generally in the sanctions regime against the Russian Federation," the minister emphasised.
Russian Federation Council on Tuesday ratified treaties on the incorporation of four new entities - the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions - into the Russian Federation.
On September 30, President Vladimir Putin agreed to sign documents allowing the accession of the DPR and LPR, as well as the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye, to the Russian Federation.
According to Moscow, it followed referenda in which people living in those areas exercised their right to self-determination and requested to join Russia.
Ukraine and its international allies condemned the move, calling it an annexation of Kiev’s sovereign territory.
Moscow launched the military offensive in Ukraine earlier this year, after recognising the independence of the LPR and DPR.
Kiev condemned the action, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered martial law and full mobilisation in February.
Russia: 'Better for all countries to recognise reality' - Lavrov on treaties of accession of DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commenting upon incorporation of four new entities into Russian Federation claimed 'it would have been better for countries all over the world to have realised the new reality'. The speech has been delivered during a plenary session of the Russian Council in Moscow on Tuesday.
"We see how full of anti-Russian sentiment the West is, we see how it clearly feels the lack of convincing arguments in its position and tries to intimidate all the other countries, especially developing countries, Asia, Africa, Latin America, with threats, blackmail, to demand that they should condemn Russia," said Lavrov.
The minister added that such behavior once again underscores the 'weakness of the West's position'.
"If you feel you are right, so, you state what you think about this or that international event and let everyone else decide for themselves as adult people. In this case whose arguments are more convincing - Russia and those residents of Donbass, Ukraine who do not want to remain under a neo-Nazi regime, or the arguments of the collective West, which has proclaimed Ukraine to be a concentration of democracy and has vowed to fight to the last Ukrainian in order to weaken, if not dismember, the Russian Federation," Lavrov stated.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed confidence of the current situation when the 'vast majority of countries perfectly understand the rightness of the Russian side'.
"Not all have enough courage, or just enough strength, to speak directly about it objectively. But the vast majority refuses to align themselves with the steps that the West is taking in the economy and generally in the sanctions regime against the Russian Federation," the minister emphasised.
Russian Federation Council on Tuesday ratified treaties on the incorporation of four new entities - the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions - into the Russian Federation.
On September 30, President Vladimir Putin agreed to sign documents allowing the accession of the DPR and LPR, as well as the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye, to the Russian Federation.
According to Moscow, it followed referenda in which people living in those areas exercised their right to self-determination and requested to join Russia.
Ukraine and its international allies condemned the move, calling it an annexation of Kiev’s sovereign territory.
Moscow launched the military offensive in Ukraine earlier this year, after recognising the independence of the LPR and DPR.
Kiev condemned the action, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered martial law and full mobilisation in February.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commenting upon incorporation of four new entities into Russian Federation claimed 'it would have been better for countries all over the world to have realised the new reality'. The speech has been delivered during a plenary session of the Russian Council in Moscow on Tuesday.
"We see how full of anti-Russian sentiment the West is, we see how it clearly feels the lack of convincing arguments in its position and tries to intimidate all the other countries, especially developing countries, Asia, Africa, Latin America, with threats, blackmail, to demand that they should condemn Russia," said Lavrov.
The minister added that such behavior once again underscores the 'weakness of the West's position'.
"If you feel you are right, so, you state what you think about this or that international event and let everyone else decide for themselves as adult people. In this case whose arguments are more convincing - Russia and those residents of Donbass, Ukraine who do not want to remain under a neo-Nazi regime, or the arguments of the collective West, which has proclaimed Ukraine to be a concentration of democracy and has vowed to fight to the last Ukrainian in order to weaken, if not dismember, the Russian Federation," Lavrov stated.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed confidence of the current situation when the 'vast majority of countries perfectly understand the rightness of the Russian side'.
"Not all have enough courage, or just enough strength, to speak directly about it objectively. But the vast majority refuses to align themselves with the steps that the West is taking in the economy and generally in the sanctions regime against the Russian Federation," the minister emphasised.
Russian Federation Council on Tuesday ratified treaties on the incorporation of four new entities - the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions - into the Russian Federation.
On September 30, President Vladimir Putin agreed to sign documents allowing the accession of the DPR and LPR, as well as the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye, to the Russian Federation.
According to Moscow, it followed referenda in which people living in those areas exercised their right to self-determination and requested to join Russia.
Ukraine and its international allies condemned the move, calling it an annexation of Kiev’s sovereign territory.
Moscow launched the military offensive in Ukraine earlier this year, after recognising the independence of the LPR and DPR.
Kiev condemned the action, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered martial law and full mobilisation in February.