MOSCOW, Russia
\nWestern elites are forever barred from claiming any moral leadership as their colonialist instincts have gone nowhere, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
\n\u201cThe crimes of the colonizers have no time limit and forever deprive Western elites of the right to claim any moral leadership. Especially since the colonial instincts have not disappeared,\u201d Lavrov told a meeting of the United Russia Party commission on international cooperation and support of compatriots abroad.
\nAccording to the top diplomat, the West, which \u201cachieved its prosperity largely through centuries of robbery and exploitation of developing countries,\u201d is trying to maintain its global dominance, hoping, as before, to solve problems of its own development and maintain their economies at the expense of others.
\n\u201cTo this end, the West continues to hinder the process of democratization of international relations and aggressively imposes on the world majority a neocolonial American-centric order, which, as they say, must be based on rules that they themselves invent and apply according to the \u2018I do what want\u2019 principle,\u201d he added.
\nLavrov also noted that the US and \u201cthe rest of the West, which is fully subordinate to them,\u201d had taken a complete course toward dividing the world into a small group of \u201cthe exceptional and the so-called subordinates\u201d.
\n\u201cTo this end, new black-and-white paradigms are being introduced, which assume that the world consists of correct, Washington-approved democracies on the one hand and autocracies such as Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba on the other,\u201d the top diplomat stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW, Russia Western elites are forever barred from claiming any moral leadership as their colonialist instincts have gone nowhere, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. \u201cThe crimes of the colonizers have no time limit and forever deprive Western elites of the right to claim any moral leadership. Especially since the colonial instincts have not disappeared,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-311611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n