Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered welcoming remarks to the “Outreach ministerial meeting” component of the two-day BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting on June 10-11 in Nizhny Novgorod. He said that one goal of the meeting was “in order to identify solutions to the most pressing global issues faced by all members of the international community without exception.… Only by uniting our ranks can we truly effectively promote a vision of a just future shared by all of us.”
At a press conference after the two-day meeting, Lavrov elaborated that “Multipolarity is not something that depends on the wishes of a certain state or a group of nations. Multipolarity or polycentrism as we also call it, is an objectively developing historical process which cannot be stopped. Although the West is trying to stall it by hook or by crook in order to prolong its hegemony that was proclaimed as the main goal of the U.S. and its allies. They openly say that the world order in which the leading role belongs to the Americans, NATO and the EU, cannot be allowed to change.”
Lavrov stated what most participants also believe: “This is an openly neocolonial mentality, which is manifested in everything the collective West does. It is the West that is trying to divide the world into various blocs,” Lavrov pointed out. “...Therefore, it is not BRICS that is engaged in isolating itself from the rest of the world. On the contrary, BRICS objectively emerged as a group of nations that are interested in justice in the international arena. BRICS is not seeking the role of some kind of pole. There will be many more poles in a polycentric world,” Lavrov summed up.