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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says China has “outplayed” the United States in the era of globalisation, arguing that the Western-led system is breaking down. Speaking on issues ranging from IMF reforms and WTO disputes to the war in Ukraine, Lavrov accused the West of abandoning its own rules and promoting a “false narrative."

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00:00who are fighting for the truth we hold dear to us on the front line of course our relations with

00:14what is happening there is very important in terms of russian international standing in general

00:21and we continue to carry out our independent foreign policy

00:35and we seek to

00:39step up mutually beneficial ties with anyone who is ready to work on an equal footing based on the

00:48universally recognized principles of international law other countries representing the global

00:54majority have the same policy india is a good example in this regard it seeks to maintain relations

01:04with all the sides and it focuses on its domestic agenda in its foreign policy our two countries have

01:15converging goals and objectives as confirmed during president putin's visit to new delhi and his

01:22talks to prime minister modi in the indian capital last week our priorities include stepping up strategic

01:30partnership and alliance with the countries in our immediate neighborhood with cis countries

01:38countries we are continuing to promote integration within the union state we're building a common single

01:48defense space as part of the security guarantees treaty there was a joint meeting of the boards of the

02:01foreign ministries of belarus and russia and during this meeting we agreed to further coordinate our

02:08foreign policy efforts and outline specific objectives in this regard we are developing our ties with central

02:16asian countries in the second russia central asia summit will take place in dushan above the president of

02:23kazakhstan mr tokhaev in november signed a declaration on elevating russia kazakhstan relations to a comprehensive

02:35strategic partnership and alliance there was a state visit by president putin to kyrgyzstan in late

02:43november and we elevated our relations to an alliance a strategic partnership there are efforts to promote

02:55ties within the cis and the eaeu there will be this new format cis plus launched in dushanbe at the cis summit

03:05next year russia will be chairing the csto and will work closely with its allies in order to reaffirm

03:17the standing of this organization in international affairs if we're talking about eurasia russia china

03:25relations of comprehensive cooperation and strategic partnership are very important

03:33we have our dialect at the highest level the leaders diplomacy as our chinese friends say

03:41xi jinping the prc president visited moscow to take part in victory day celebration and then

03:48putin paid their return visit to mark the end of the second world war to mark 80 years of victory over

03:56german nazism and german nazism and japanese militarism we shared this anniversary our two countries

04:05play the decisive role in these victories today mosma and beijing form a diplomatic tandem which guarantees

04:13global stability in a multipolar world order i believe that our

04:23compatriots will appreciate the ability to travel to benefit from visa pre-travel to china

04:31we are developing our partnership ties with pionyang considering that our two countries

04:38signed a treaty in the summer of 2024 and we are sincerely grateful to our north korean friends for

04:47helping us liberate the kursk region from ukrainian fighters we believe that our relations enjoy positive

04:55momentum in various domains and we welcome this we also work together within the united nations there are

05:03great opportunities in connection with the treaty of on the comprehensive cooperation and strategic partnership

05:10with iran we're developing our relations with turkey and with other countries so far russia has been focusing

05:22on on the eurasian continent we have a number of flagship initiatives to create the greater eurasian partnership

05:35as a space of security and cooperation we are working together with our belarusian allies

05:42on a charter on diversity and multi-polarity in the 21st century

05:48and i hope that all the interested countries of the continent which are will join this document we are

05:56working with our african friends to follow up on the decisions of russia-africa summits in 2019-2023

06:06next week we will have the second ministerial conference of the russia-africa cooperation forum and

06:14we will be preparing the next russia-africa summit for 2026 we are also seeking to step up our cooperation

06:24with latino-american caribbean countries brazil is our strategic partner in the region and in the world

06:32we are working together in brics we have a treaty on strategic cooperation with venezuela we reaffirmed our

06:41strategic cooperation with nicaragua which recognized donetsk and lugansk republics zaporozhya and kherson regions

06:50as being integral parts of russia we have been also proactive in our multilateral diplomacy including

07:02as part of the group of friends to defend the u.n charter which we created within the united nations

07:11we want the provision set forward by the union charter to be fulfilled considering the complementary

07:22nature and in an inclusive manner brics has been it has been at the center of the decision-making process

07:31this is becoming an increasingly prominent group which reflects the diversity of today's world

07:39the brazilian chairmanship followed up on many of the initiatives which were launched during the kazan

07:46summit in autumn 2024 under russia's chairmanship including cross-border payment systems reinsurance

07:55infrastructure and grain stock exchange and other initiatives there is the sco as well one of the

08:06pillars in the emerging world order and a major element of the equal and indivisible security architecture for

08:18eurasia that we want at the september summit in china the very important decision this year as i've already

08:29said is marked by eight years of victory and we're doing everything possible to make sure that we mark these events

08:41the best way we had in may of 2025 celebrations and we're stepping up our efforts

08:52to oppose any attempts to rewrite the outcomes of the second world war including the verdicts of the nuremberg trials

09:04every year russia submits a resolution to the un general assembly on combating the glorification

09:12of nazism of nazism and it has been approved this year as well we will highlight the position of the former

09:23axis powers for several years now they have been voting against this resolution on combating the glorification

09:31of nazism as you know germany is practically supplying lethal weapons to a neo-nazi regime chancellor

09:40mertz is talking about plans to make the bundeswehr the strongest army in europe they probably forgot

09:51their dark past and this should provide germany food for thought but any opposition is silenced in germany the

10:01same applies to finland during the second world war we know that finland worked

10:09with nazi germany and we have an impression that so many years of neighborly relations and mutually beneficial

10:16cooperation with our country did not help the finnish establishment to master their beastly russophobia

10:28we wanted to make sure that the crimes of the german invaders

10:34are recognized as genocide against the soviet people during the great patriotic war

10:43the great victory contributed to the process of decolonization

10:49the peoples of the south got their own statehood and the decisive role the decisive contribution of our

10:56country to their liberation is recognized across the world on the 14th of december we'll celebrate

11:02the 65th anniversary

11:07of the historical decision

11:11to give independence to colonialized to colonized

11:15nations and countries on the 14th of december we expect it to be soon announced the international

11:23anti-colonialism day which will give an even more systemic nature of our anti-colonialist efforts

11:31which are very relevant today the foreign ministry closely cooperates with united russia which initiated

11:40and plays a leading role in the international movement for freedom of nations regularly hosting meetings

11:50of today's anti-colonialism activists

11:56it is it was our initiative for the support of the group of friends in the un the 4th of december

12:04it's been pronounced by the general assembly the international

12:07international day of combating unilateral measures

12:13our efforts to shape

12:16institutions logistics and financial institutions

12:21uncontrollable by the west with all the turbulence of the international arena

12:26we make great efforts to unite the international community

12:32in fighting trans-border challenges and threats

12:36in october in hanoi a un convention against cyber crime was signed the first universal international treaty

12:46on preventing the use of international technologies in malicious deeds

12:55countering any forms of discrimination is also one of our priorities we keep working on consolidating

13:01multi-confessional multinational russian world protecting the positions of the russian language and the cultural legacy of our country

13:10we pay special attention to implementing our president's decree on providing humanitarian supports to individuals

13:18who share the traditional russian spiritual values

13:23and we have received invaluable support from representatives of traditional russian confessions

13:30we also use the potential of cultural diplomacy this year russia successfully hosted the first

13:37international song contest intervision

13:45aimed at bringing up young people in the spirit of previous generations we work with our international partners

13:53to make this competition the song contest annual of course we pay great attention to inter-municipal cooperation

14:01we do presentations of russian regions

14:03on the venue of the foreign ministry of the russian federation and these presentations enjoy great popularity among

14:12country ambassadors

14:16we also develop the practice of holding inter-regional forums with a whole number of states

14:23mostly our partners in the cis and other blocs dear colleagues

14:27the international policy approved by the president for the president is strategic and long-term

14:35and aims to realize large-scale state goals it's important that in today's pivotal moment

14:43of global development our initiatives are supported by leading political powers

14:49the country and enjoy understanding among citizens this gives our efforts stability

14:55and boost our country's authority reputation in the world

15:01in conclusion once again i'd like to emphasize our commitment

15:05to joining our efforts with lawmakers and the federation council

15:10in boosting the positions of the russian federation as one of the biggest states in the world

15:15the eurasia and one of the centers of the emerging world order thank you minister lavrov

15:25for a very rich presentation highly professional as usual

15:31sergey martin of please

15:44minister lavrov

15:47how do you see further dynamic of our relations with europe and the usa

15:53shall we expect

15:58any improvement in the negotiations process and the lifting of sanctions in the near future

16:08well the president has been talking extensively about that in detail of course the situation has evolved

16:15somewhat but in general the trend is the same the west is not united

16:25and we see this in the events of the latest the last few days when trump in one of his interviews

16:33evaluated europe's actions to hold back the agreements that could have actually been achieved

16:40achieved on the ukrainian track eliminating the root causes

16:48that are the main obstacles on this way but europe has been holding back this process

16:59instigating the so-called ukrainian leader

17:05encouraging him to fight till the last ukrainian

17:09the thing is they're short of money

17:13and right now this ideological agenda is being influenced by money concerns because

17:21there's no other way for them other than rip off the russian federation and take in violation of all

17:29international laws to take our gold reserves they have no other sources of financing this war

17:38and that's what we're going to do

17:39all this given the fact that a whole number of countries including eu members and opposition

17:44parties and nato countries

17:47recognize the pointlessness

17:51continuing to pursue this policy however

17:53europe is blindfolded by its desire to deliver strategic defeat to the russian federation some of them even

18:02say in their media interviews that they can't think of a situation when they'll have to swallow the defeat of their puppet

18:13and we'll have to admit the fact that russia is reaching its lawful goals

18:22of course it's their problems but they created them for themselves and they are making them worse

18:28for themselves trying to cling on to the absolutely pointless

18:36policy

18:40against this background the us is growing more and more impatient president trump

18:46who as i said the only one was the only one of western leaders immediately after taking his

18:56office in white house this january he was the only one who started showing an understanding of the reasons

19:03that made the war in ukraine inevitable

19:06that are the foundation of the hostile activities taken by the west

19:15taken by the west taken by ex-president biden

19:22and now we are seeing the culmination story this whole story and the fact that president trump

19:30agreed that the root cause

19:32must be eliminated

19:39and that's the inadmissibility of ukraine joining NATO

19:46and the need to reclaim the people from from ukrainian regime to reclaim people whose rights had been trump

19:55trampled by the junta all this has now been actively discussed

20:01and of course i should mention that

20:05the only western leader

20:09who actually cares for human rights in this situation

20:13is also donald trump

20:16i hope i'm not opening a big secret

20:19the terms brought here by steven wikov and discussed with the president of the russian federation

20:27they say explicitly

20:30that

20:32what is left of ukraine must protect the rights of national minorities and religious freedoms in accordance with international legislation

20:41and it's a good thing we're discussing this now because

20:48amendments to this american document of course they are classified now but human rights

20:58we can't make secrets of human rights

21:01so the proposition made by the american part about

21:08defending all human rights and ensuring religious rights

21:13europe insisted that they be amended

21:16and their version says differently

21:23the european version calls for ukraine

21:27to stick to the rights to minorities and religious freedoms

21:35exercised in the european union

21:37feel a difference you see this arrogance

21:42this holier-than-thou attitude

21:45of europe

21:49in violation of traditions and norms

21:52the rest of the world i think is one of the reasons

21:56where president trump and his team say more and more often talk more and more often about a profound crisis

22:02in in europe

22:04and about that crisis

22:07definitely moving in the wrong direction

22:11thank you

22:13thank you

22:15oleg zintsov please

22:20minister labrov

22:24currently a more fair world order is being formed and developed where voices of developing countries

22:31sound louder and louder while the western centric world policy is becoming a thing of the past

22:37and the current system of international relations

22:41has seen many major even global conflicts

22:44do you think the current standoff between

22:48the west and the east and its

22:50hot spots in ukraine will it lead to the formation of a new system

22:55of global relations or is it impossible without

23:00global phenomena

23:06i think it's an objective process it's

23:09it's the progress of history it's the result of economic development

23:12you see when decades ago

23:18soon after world war ii

23:22especially after

23:24the end of the cold war when

23:27the west was touting ideals of globalization

23:32in the spirit of fukuyama's end of history

23:35they were saying that only liberal values will be commonly accepted across the world and there will be no

23:44competition and no

23:46alternative to that across the world

23:48and those instruments of globalization were touted and pushed forward across the world

23:57not as just western standards but as global

24:04human

24:06values i don't know who exactly that was but 20 or 30 years ago someone said

24:11a washington official said that dollar is not american property it's a common good

24:21that

24:23oils the gears of

24:27of the world's economy

24:28i said in my introduction speech as president trump

24:38spoke very harshly of

24:41biden's actions

24:44when biden and his team used dollar as an instrument of sanctions as an instrument for punishing the

24:50goals and when he became president for the second time in his official speeches president trump

25:02strongly criticized bricks

25:05mostly for

25:07challenging the

25:09the dominance of the dollar and president putin responded to that remark by saying that

25:15we did not give up dollar we were cut off from dollar

25:19once again abusing its status of the world

25:22reserve currency and using it as a political weapon

25:26but we were forced to look for alternatives and we will do so we will continue to do so

25:35and this

25:36egotistical and aggressive stance of the united states that we have been observing since the biden team

25:43makes

25:44other countries also think twice

25:47not only russia but other

25:50countries that found themselves on the receiving end of

25:54europe's and american sanctions they all start asking

25:59what will they dislike today the controllers of the financial markets

26:02this means that the trend to

26:10create alternative payment platforms this is a sustainable trend and has been gaining momentum

26:16within bricks within the seo as i've already mentioned i can also say that the president

26:23was very clear when he said that we were not the ones who moved away from the dollar

26:30they imposed the solution on us we had to act this way because

26:37the west has weaponized the u.s dollar primarily the united states

26:44we are witnessing an emerging world order

26:48and we can see that the economy and in the financial sector this

26:53process is evolving

26:56the second point i wanted to make deals with decolonization

27:01fighting new colonialism and colonialism in general if we

27:07view colonialism as international practices when you live on the account of others

27:14there was this decolonization movement in 1965

27:19and more and more african countries became independent in the process and this

27:26this was primarily a political decision there were celebrations to mark this occasion but quite

27:35quickly it became clear that political independence

27:43does not necessarily lead to economic independence

27:47for example if independent countries with u.n membership

27:58find themselves in a state of economic and financial dependency

28:07and the rules of an international division of labor were imposed by the globalists in

28:13san peterburg and the second russia african summit

28:17this was when president of uganda mr musseni

28:22made a very detailed speech on this regard he recalled the international coffee market

28:34it's worth about 450 billion euros per year

28:40africa is the main producer of coffee beans but africa would receive

28:47about just 40 billion out of 450 billion all the rest is added value on

28:59packaging and roasting beans and all this the rest of the money went to western countries and

29:09state in the west and this is a striking example of the fact that political independence

29:16does not necessarily mean economic independence and today when we communicate with our african friends we see

29:23this growing appetite for economic justice

29:28the africa is to get free from this economic dependence

29:36they want economic justice even if achieving it can be quite challenging

29:42so this is africa's second awakening in a fighting for its uh interests in the global economy there are many

29:51examples of this kind in latin american and caribbean countries in their community

29:58with the arrival of president lula to power in brazil he initiated a debate on

30:08defending the country from the whims of the international financial system and those who run it so these

30:18processes are gaining momentum

30:23and the main tenets of globalization have been discredited and we can all see this we all know this

30:31principles like fair competition

30:37private property with the presumption of innocence and many other principles have been trampled upon

30:44on when someone had to punish the russian federation but for what for many years we have been warning

30:56our western partners and we talked we were forced to launch a special military operation

31:03so the western led globalization in the post cold war world order is becoming a thing of the past

31:12instead we're witnessing the fragmentation of the global economy more and more countries are and

31:19understand that regional mechanisms provide better frameworks for development this is why we focus in our

31:29latest foreign policy concept in eurasian security and building a eurasian cooperation from framework by

31:39creating this greater eurasian partnership in transport and logistics and other sectors of this

31:49meets the agenda that we are and the vision that we have and reflects this eurasian approach more and

31:59more countries are interested in joining this process the president has articulated our goals in this

32:05regard and i've already mentioned the way we work with our friends in belarus they hold the eurasian

32:12security conference in autumn i took part in all three of them the fourth one will be take place next

32:20next year there is more there's growing interest among asian countries to those countries as well as

32:28from what the countries in the west of the eurasian continent my colleague and friend petr siar to the

32:35foreign ministry minister of hungary takes part in this conference regularly there are representatives

32:43of serbia and slovakia and i believe that this will become an increasingly high profile event

32:50and this goes to say that multipolarity a multipolar world order is not just words that we put on paper in

33:01the u.n security council what makes this multipolarity strong is that it is an imperative

33:09it is an imperative in terms of rethinking the legacy of globalization

33:20why china has been designated by the main competitor is the main threat because china there was a time when

33:28china accepted the rules of the game as part of this globalization process that was supposed to benefit

33:38everyone and china accepted these rules and started fine-tuning its mechanisms for becoming an active

33:45participant in these processes and it sprinted ahead of those who invented this globalization and while playing by their rules on their field

33:58and now the europeans and the united states complain that china makes uh

34:06very good high technology products at lower costs so all these international projects

34:12projects that were advertised as common good their their sole purpose is to benefit from them

34:23everyone remembers this so regardless of all the challenges in terms of

34:32moving away from this old system that is the imf the wto the world bank but still this process

34:42is underway and when we define new cooperation frameworks and no one wants to close the imf the wto the world bank

34:59at the same time there is a process to reform these institutions but it's not about real reform bricks and

35:07seo countries and the global majority in general general want the norms in these institutions to

35:16comply with a reality so that the voting rights the global south has reflects its economic weight the united

35:28states has been standing in the way of reforming the quota system they have been pressuring sovereign states

35:36in order to maintain veto right on any decisions taken by the imf during the biden administration this

35:46resulted in unimaginable figures in terms of the funding that was sent to kiev the wto once again

35:59this is why washington has been preventing wto from filling vacancies in its dispute resolution mechanism so

36:20uh all these cases that have to be resolved according to wto rules cannot be resolved i would call for

36:30reason so when we pursue reforms within the global financial institutions i would suggest

36:38uh to have a plan b you always need a plan b thank you so much miss nikonorova please uh thank you so much miss

36:50mr lavrov i would like to thank you for the foreign ministry's contribution to resolving the ukraine

37:00crisis and prioritizing human rights my question is about the information sector there is this information

37:08that is the information that is the information that has been blocked by the west the global media space

37:13is filled with misleading information about russia and the special military operation

37:19and then this connection we'll probably

37:23need to do more to spread more verified and accurate information about russia this is what sputnik and rt do

37:37are there any plans to expand the existing mechanisms or create new ones in this domain sputnik and rt

37:45indeed

37:45they are foreign language media outlets but they also offer their content in russia so countries with large russian diasporas

38:02these networks also offer their programming in russian but what matters the most as you said are

38:11foreign nationals for being misled tricked and fooled if i may say they face these false narratives

38:24as we say today and of course media outlets international media outlets you mentioned two

38:34major ones that are international brands this is why they face so much backlash and long before what happened

38:46in ukraine neither rt nor sputnik were able to get accreditation at the elize palace the presidential palace in

38:56france and there was an official who referred to macron this official was in charge of accreditation he said that

39:06we believe that you are not a media outlet but a propaganda tool that was it and i've raised this issue on several occasions

39:20with my french colleagues and i think that the president even told my president macron about this

39:31we're being accused of distorting facts without ever providing any evidence to back these claims

39:39in this regard we need to do everything to support our broadcasters

39:51which of course are a minority on the in the global media sector and we need to support western media outlets

39:59that are becoming increasingly reasonable there are media outlets of this kind they must

40:07be able to draw conclusions independently and there are those who are capable of doing this but we also

40:16need to work on the diplomatic front to achieve the truth and we already know what happened in butcha

40:28and the proverbial case of butcher you know how it happened when as a gesture of goodwill

40:33president remember remember remember this recently

40:38to push forward agreements that had been proposed by the ukrainians but the ukrainians

40:45were banned by boris johnson from continuing the negotiations in 2022

40:53and when there was still hope that an agreement could be achieved

40:58as a gesture of goodwill we pulled our troops from the suburbs of kiev in butcher for two days the mayor of

41:10the city was talking on tv that they are back in their homes again and then three days later bbc reporters

41:20were there were there on the central streets in the center of bucha

41:28they filmed dead bodies that obviously had been lying there for three days really and nobody had seen

41:35them but the bbc and then there was the new wave of sanctions accusations of atrocities and ever since

41:44for four years over we've been trying to

41:50to find the truth i said several times that in the un security council looking secretary general guterres in

42:01the eyes i asked him to at least give me the list of people whose bodies were found by the

42:10the bbc film crew there who miraculously found themselves there on that day

42:18we wrote official letters to the european commissioner on human rights

42:26and

42:28and there's an establishment there especially created for ukraine but we didn't get any answer

42:35and when press secretary guterres press secretary was asked he said they were all for human rights they were all for transparency but sometimes

42:48they cannot disclose information because there are human lives at stake well this is ridiculous

42:55and of course we will continue demanding from the un to stop playing unfairly to stop

43:05ukrainizing

43:09the secretariat where the leading positions have been privateered by the west

43:13and the nato and the european union all the key positions of course

43:23russia has the deputy secretary general on combat and terrorism

43:29china has deputy secretary general on

43:33matters of social and economic development but political matters peacekeeping matters

43:37humanitarian matters of course across the world matters of ensuring security within the un

43:47i mean all

43:49mechanisms that actually determine the activities of the secretariat and budgets they're all in the hands of the west

43:59and they've been abused and they've been abusing it more and more we have been talking about this

44:07and we we have to think about the future of the united nations so that god forbid it doesn't go the path of the osc

44:16so i absolutely agree with you support of mass media defending the truth

44:23and pushing inconvenient questions on international platforms would add to that parliamentary diplomacy

44:35it's a very important instrument there's also maksim gregoriev

44:42his organization and his team accumulates the atrocities and crimes perpetrated by the ukrainian regime

44:56we have taken them to osc

45:01and his efforts all these facts are becoming increasingly harder to ignore

45:07for

45:11thank you

45:22your colleagues just

45:26you

47:25especially considering the real technological and political positions our country holds in the Arctic.

47:35So they refused to meet on the ministerial level, but they continue expert-level meetings.

47:42Sometimes they hold them online, but still the Arctic Council still exists.

47:49Well, I proceed from the fact that the Arctic Council will one day retain, regain its potential.

48:01This will take time, of course, because members of the Arctic Council, especially from Northern Europe,

48:06I mentioned Finland and Norway and Sweden here.

48:12They are currently run by governments that are not big fans of constructive work.

48:19But still sessions of the Arctic Council and other levels are taking place.

48:28And the 14th session took place in May 2025, and they passed a statement that confirmed the general position

48:41that the Arctic Council is the key venue for multilateral cooperation in the Arctic region.

48:49in the trans-polar region, and there must be a common vector towards ensuring peace and security and creating favorable conditions for work.

49:02Regardless of what is happening in the Arctic Council, we are in favor of it persisting.

49:07But for it to function as efficiently as possible, we need to remove this ukrainization of agenda in this structure as well.

49:18In the meanwhile, of course, we continue exploring

49:21the region, high latitudes in the North Sea Route.

49:28We cooperate with our strategic partners such as China and India, regardless of any plans entertained by the Arctic Council.

49:38We have our sovereignty over the North Sea Route, and we actively explore it with the help of friendly states, the participation of friendly states.

49:55There is a structure that appeared in parallel with the Arctic Council.

50:00There is also a non-governmental organization, cooperation of northern regions and countries.

50:10It's called the northern forum.

50:15And there is also the Arctic Economic Council.

50:18It's a business community.

50:21All this was harmonized with the program work of the Arctic Council.

50:28But with a certain slowdown in the work of the non-governmental organization, these structures keep functioning.

50:39And of course, the Arctic topic, the topic of the Arctic is regularly discussed at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum to an extent.

50:51And there is also our brand Arctic, the territory of dialogue.

50:56It's an Arctic forum that convenes regularly.

50:59And there's the recently created international forum Arctic, the present and future.

51:08named after Artur Cherengarov.

51:13So non-governmental formats also develop actively.

51:17And I think this is very useful, especially considering that we encourage the role of regions

51:29and international connections and international connections and establishing ties with adjacent regions.

51:36I think these connections, they give birth to projects, real-life projects.

51:43And all these formats that I mentioned here, they must be coordinated to avoid duplication,

51:53to ensure consistency.

51:55So this is very real and we do this together with our relevant authorities in charge of the Arctic cooperation.

52:04Thank you. Unfortunately, we have to end the Q&A session.

52:12Thank you. Thank you Minister Lavrov. Thank you for your policy of forming a multipolar world policy.

52:37The reality of multipolar world and decreasing Russia's dependence on Western states and improving its access to international markets.

52:53What are the priorities? They are the priorities of Russia's international policy.

52:58What other tasks remain in these directions?

53:05Well, that's a very broad question.

53:11I'll try to be brief, but to be brief, I'll have to admit that this is not the jurisdiction,

53:19not so much the jurisdiction of the foreign ministry, it's an all-Russian issue and we have a whole number of mechanisms,

53:29intergovernmental commissions on all key tracks.

53:34Recently, we had this Council on National Projects and Strategic Development.

53:44And it was said a lot there about what has to be done to reach the objectives you mentioned.

53:50I think the most important thing is to rely on, in part, that is the foreign ministry's jurisdictions.

54:02We need to pursue a foreign policy that will ensure the most favourable external terms for our internal development, ensuring our security, economic growth and improving the wellbeing of our citizens.

54:22And the whole architecture of our mechanisms is aimed at achieving these goals.

54:33It's just everybody should work in unison, in harmony, given priority to state interests.

54:40Thank you. Thank you very much, Minister Lavrov.

54:43I'm at a loss for words, but this was a brilliant speech.

54:48Take a seat, please.

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