Lavrov: Russia highly appreciates China’s unbiased position on situation around Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow appreciates Beijing’s position on the situation around Ukraine and feels its support in upholding principled Russian approaches to the formation of Europe’s security architecture, TASS reports
Mr. Lavrov stressed that tectonic shifts in the modern geopolitical landscape serve as an additional catalyst for deepening joint foreign policy co-ordination between Moscow and Beijing. According to the Foreign Minister, Russia and China maintain a constructive approach in building relations with third-party countries. “At the same time, our positions on the vast majority of key issues on the global and regional agenda either coincide or are extremely close to each other,” he specified.
The Russian Foreign Minister also added that Russia and China jointly favour strengthening the coordinating role of the UN in global affairs and adherence to the fundamental principle of equal and indivisible security, which implies not strengthening one’s own security at the expense of others.
Sergei Lavrov noted the common interest of Moscow and Beijing in opposing American hegemony and the policy of imposing unilateral sanctions. “We are united with our Chinese friends by our drive towards the democratisation of international life so that the voices of all countries – whether large or small – are heard, and a narrow clique of the Western countries led by the United States, will no longer be able to dictate to the world its own rules of the game,” said the Russian Foreign Minister. “We reject all illegitimate and unilateral sanctions as an unscrupulous instrument of political diktat.”
