News conference of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov on the Russian diplomacy outcomes in 2025
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#LIVE: News conference of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov on the Russian diplomacy outcomes in 2025
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Comments taken down during the conference – it is all multipolarity:
Lavrov calls the US attack on Venezuela a โblatant armed invasionโ
The US is threatening Cuba and other Latin American countries, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said.
He adds that attempts by external forces to destabilize Iranโs internal political situation are deeply concerning.
Lavrov: Westโs โrules-based worldโ narrative fades
Lavrov says it is telling that the West once actively opposed international law with its concept of a โrules-based world,โ a term he notes has now fallen out of use as Western European politicians try to make sense of events โ especially in the context of President Trumpโs actions.
Lavrov: Debates around Greenland are unfolding that would have been hard to imagine before, especially in the context of preserving NATO.
Lavrov: Russia will consistently defend its interests, respecting othersโ lawful rights while not allowing its own rights to be disregarded.
Lavrov: The much-touted ‘isolation’ of Russia has not materialized, despite what critics claim
FM Lavrov: Overwhelming majority of states do not want to forget the lessons and history of World War II, calling it a key takeaway from last year
FM Sergey Lavrov, responding to Merzโs anti-Russia remarks, says history shows where the ‘overconfidence of German leadership’ has led in the past.
FM Lavrov: Russia remains committed to seeking a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis
European leaders are openly preparing for war with Russia, Lavrov says
Speaking on international cooperation and strategic partnerships, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted key priorities in diplomatic strategy:
๐ธ Russia will continue building good-neighborly relations within the CIS, CSTO, and SCO, aiming to develop a continent-wide architecture of equal and indivisible security
๐ธ Moscow actively supported Brazilโs BRICS chairmanship last year, with partners continuing projects launched during Russiaโs 2024 presidency
๐ธ Lavrov said North Korea provided โbrotherly assistanceโ to Russia in the liberation of the Kursk region from Ukrainian militants
๐ธ He noted that ties between Russia and China are at an unprecedented level in both depth and scope
๐ธ Lavrov emphasized the strategic character of RussiaโIndia relations
๐ธ Preparations are underway for a third RussiaโAfrica summit
FM Lavrov: Russia is working to resume RussiaโIndiaโChina format meetings
FM Lavrov: Concept of Euro-Atlantic security has discredited itself, prompting a push toward a Eurasian security framework
Q&A has started and as customary, in depth commentary is included in the answers.
Mr P and others. This is much more nuanced than ‘we can do nothing’. Those that listened will know that Lavrov stated that they are busy at the UN to fix the unfiixed areas, small islands and lands that are questionable from the colonial times. They are actually doing it… Read more »
No argument. My qualifier was “ad hoc”, during the utterance. Reflecting at a little distance, I note the minister’s use of paralipsis, as he immediately and seemingly in non-sequitur fashion spoke of colonialist history and so forth. Thus, in a sly way, Lavrov is understood to have pointed out that… Read more »
what set me off about Lavrov weren’t his words in isolation. You know how much I respect him.
It was AFTER reading this RT leading article.
There’s some factional coordinated Russian campaign, encouraging Yanqui suicide.
For that, they’re willing to concede some principle… No state’s led by angels
Aah .. again, I disagree somewhat. This article is junk. They built it on a Peskov comment. And his comment was (from memory) that if Trump manages to take Greenland, he will be in the history books. There is a way to listen to these Russians. Peskov did not say… Read more »
our positions are not mutually exclusive. Both Peskov and Lavrov, officially, say vague technically-correct pablum. RT/Sputnik then run with it, inciting the excitable, giving them plausible deniability. This is how sophisticated players play the game
AHH, every journalist that has ever worked for RT testified that they are not editorially led. That comes from years ago, when Abby Martin still worked for them. The western journalists usually express amazement at no editorial diktat. Currently and I forget her name, the lady that fled because of… Read more »
amoral realpolitik in action. Lavrov treads where Angels fear to go: endorsing the coming grab of Greenland via Might Makes Right, in order to accelerate the collapse of NATO and the deranged western Legion. Alea iacta est
We have to be careful to believe the clips taken by the Russian press as they lose all context in their zeal to report. There is no endorsement here. The discussion was about NATO. ‘NATO is being put to the test โ what is it really worth?’ And the whole… Read more »
don’t shoot either messenger! It’s unambiguous; Sputnik’s IN context.
“…No less important for the country’s security..” + “has โno interest in interferingโ” = Russia invites nazis to feast on themselves in colonial cannibalism.
It’s “sensible” amoral realpolitik perspective. But we’ll remember next time Russia bitches about international law or civilization.
I’ll be looking forward to proving you and Sputnik contextually wrong once we have a formal transcript in hand. The context and the comparitive here is what matters, not realpolitic. And this is what was said .. DD actually wrote it down, word for word. There was a lot of… Read more »
maybe it ain’t open endorsement. But it’s resignation, schadenfreude.
And consistent with behavior since 1991. They won’t fight for others, or strictly under limits. Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Gaza holocaust….
Consistent with desiring to incinerate the demented West on 101 fronts.
This attitude promotes Chaos, and utter breakdown in civilized norms
I too listened to the entire formidable discussion. Ad hoc impression of this bit was (a) we can do nothing, (b) why should we bother the nazi gang when they metamorphose into overt ketosis? (c) we have popcorn ๐ Out of the context, I actually wonder if a few rifle… Read more »