March 28, 2025 (EIRNS)—On March 27, the International Research and Diplomatic Congress met in Moscow to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the February 1945 Yalta Conference. The Department of History and Records of Russia’s Foreign Ministry contributed archival material for a thematic exhibition, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced in his greetings to the event. The Yalta conference, he told the gathered government officials, diplomats, academics and representatives of cultural communities, “represented the pinnacle of Allied unity and cooperation between the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States.” The Big Three conference not only “adopted joint decisions to expedite the end of the war but outlined the contours of the post-war world” among whose “paramount achievement was the establishment of the United Nations, the cornerstone of the post-war international order. Today, amid the formation of a multipolar world order, adherence to the goals and principles enshrined in the Charter—in their entirety and interconnectedness—remains vital to humanity’s peaceful development.”
One day earlier, Lavrov had developed this topic in greater depth in an interview with the Vesti program, in which he documented the West’s assault on the UN Charter’s unobjectionable principles of sovereign equality of states and the right to self determination and the hypocrisy of Western leaders, who proclaim the only way to see the world is their way. “Western hypocrisy reveals one truth: refusal to accept the emergent multipolar era.”
He slammed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as a prime example of such hypocrisy and offered several examples of how “pro-democracy” advocates trample on it, violate basic laws of human decency and respect for national cultures, religion, language as was done to Russian language, culture and religion by Ukraine’s resident Nazis. “The genetic inclination of the West to perpetually perceive itself as a hegemon thus continues to undermine the foundations of the Yalta-Potsdam system,” Lavrov warned. “This is a profoundly just system.”
