Death of International Diplomacy: ‘West is Unable to Negotiate’

Death of International Diplomacy: ‘West is Unable to Negotiate’

Western “vassals” of the US are willing to breach “any agreements” and violate international law upon receiving “orders” from Washington. ~Sergey Lavrov

21WIRE

It’s been years in the making. Russia’s enigmatic foreign minister echoes what many other countries have been releasing ever since the ‘unipolar moment’ arrived in 1991. He has all but written-off the possibility that the United States can be trusted as an honest broker in the international system. And it’s certainly not from a lack of trying, or patience. 

Lavrov points out that US client states are now willing to breach or undermine any international agreements – at Washington’s orders.

It’s a regrettable situation. The world is now at a crucial impasse…

RT International reports…

The West has repeatedly displayed its “inability to negotiate,” which has now become evident to everyone, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Western “vassals” of the US are willing to breach “any agreements” and violate international law upon receiving “orders” from Washington, Lavrov claimed at the Primakov Readings International Forum in Moscow.

Russia had been interested in a mutually beneficial relationship with the collective West, but building one has proven to be effectively impossible, the top diplomat argued.

“Our interest was much broader and more comprehensive, but the West was not ready for mutually beneficial, equal cooperation,” Lavrov stated. “When it needs to do something on orders from Washington, it resorts to breaking any agreements, any violations of international law.”

Moscow is now seeking to ensure its security and prevent any threats emanating from the “Western direction,” Lavrov said. The collective West, at the same time, is trying to make an example of Russia to assert its neocolonial policies, the diplomat claimed.

The Westerners are seeking to punish our country, using our example to intimidate everyone who is pursuing or seeks to pursue an independent foreign policy, who puts national interests above all, and not the whims of the former colonial powers,” Lavrov stated.

The Western efforts to “punish” Russia, however, are doomed to fail and are “already producing effects opposite to the intended ones,” the minister insisted.

Leading Western officials have repeatedly said they are seeking to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia in the Ukraine conflict, or at least ensure that it does not emerge victorious. Moscow perceives the hostilities as a proxy conflict being waged by the collective West.

Russia has insisted it will fully achieve its stated military goals, but has nonetheless signaled it is ready to negotiate an end to the hostilities through a diplomatic settlement.

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