Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a major speech to the13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues. He stressed both the growing demand of the Global South for a voice in world affairs and Europe’s mad drive towards war with Russia. “There are many people in this room representing the Global South and East. These countries are becoming increasingly vocal when discussing and addressing the most urgent and key challenges the world is facing today,” he said. “This reflects a tectonic shift in international politics, which took place over the past years and continues to this day. It primarily consists of an accelerated emergence of a multipolar world order, as well as new centers of development across the Eurasian continent, Africa and Latin America taking on a bigger role in the global distribution of power.”
This is a new reality that the West must recognize, Lavrov continued. “However, instead of approaching these developments as an objective reality, there are quite a few people in the United States and especially in Europe who view multipolarity as a challenge or even a threat rather than something good,” he said. “They view it as something threatening their infamous rules-based order, i.e., a framework the West has been trying to impose in the aftermath of the Cold War in the pursuit of its selfish interests. They have been acting in bad faith in an effort to impose a narrative describing the multipolar world order as nothing short of chaos or a war of all against all.” This view “fails to reflect the actual state of affairs,” he remarked.
As for Ukraine, Lavrov reiterated the Russian view, that while talks are better than war, the root causes of the war must be addressed, or there’ll be no peace. Among the root causes he described were the Kiev regime’s effort to eradicate Russian culture from Ukraine, and “the persistent efforts to drag Ukraine into NATO.” He also noted that Ukraine’s constitution of 1991 “solemnly proclaimed” Ukraine’s “neutral, non-aligned and nuclear-free status.”
“A return to that commitment, which the Nazi regime in Kiev tried to violate (and even amended the Constitution to be able to change its nuclear-free status), is one of Russia’s key demands that must be met in any settlement agreement to be reached, as stipulated at the talks in Istanbul in April 2022, when this requirement was written down on paper before the negotiations were disrupted by the Anglo-Saxons and other masterminds of the war against Russia,” Lavrov said.
More generally, he said: “We advocate for the creation, under current conditions, of a global security architecture rooted in the objective trends of multipolarity, the emergence of new growth centers, and one that guarantees equal conditions for the peaceful development of all states without exception. Let me reiterate: The foundation for this already exists—the UN Charter. What is required is for all to adhere to it in good faith.”
Putin, Lavrov reported, “has proposed an initiative to establish a Eurasian security architecture, inviting all states and associations on the continent—including those in Western Eurasia—to participate in discussions on its formation. In our view, this must be a distinctly Eurasian architecture, as Euro-Atlantic concepts—applied to the European part of the continent over the decades following the Second World War and throughout the Cold War—have discredited themselves.” NATO, the OSCE and the EU, Lavrov effectively argued, are pursuing an incompatible path.
“Russia proceeds from the understanding that our continent is already witnessing the formation of what President Vladimir Putin has termed the Greater Eurasian Partnership. This is evident in the alignment of integration processes within the EAEU, SCO, ASEAN, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and other subregional structures—including those in the Persian Gulf and the South Asian peninsula,” he said. “Numerous subregional organisations exist. Harmonizing these integration processes will lay a solid material foundation for discussions on security architecture."May 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a major speech to the13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues. He stressed both the growing demand of the Global South for a voice in world affairs and Europe’s mad drive towards war with Russia. “There are many people in this room representing the Global South and East. These countries are becoming increasingly vocal when discussing and addressing the most urgent and key challenges the world is facing today,” he said. “This reflects a tectonic shift in international politics, which took place over the past years and continues to this day. It primarily consists of an accelerated emergence of a multipolar world order, as well as new centers of development across the Eurasian continent, Africa and Latin America taking on a bigger role in the global distribution of power.”
This is a new reality that the West must recognize, Lavrov continued. “However, instead of approaching these developments as an objective reality, there are quite a few people in the United States and especially in Europe who view multipolarity as a challenge or even a threat rather than something good,” he said. “They view it as something threatening their infamous rules-based order, i.e., a framework the West has been trying to impose in the aftermath of the Cold War in the pursuit of its selfish interests. They have been acting in bad faith in an effort to impose a narrative describing the multipolar world order as nothing short of chaos or a war of all against all.” This view “fails to reflect the actual state of affairs,” he remarked.
As for Ukraine, Lavrov reiterated the Russian view, that while talks are better than war, the root causes of the war must be addressed, or there’ll be no peace. Among the root causes he described were the Kiev regime’s effort to eradicate Russian culture from Ukraine, and “the persistent efforts to drag Ukraine into NATO.” He also noted that Ukraine’s constitution of 1991 “solemnly proclaimed” Ukraine’s “neutral, non-aligned and nuclear-free status.”
“A return to that commitment, which the Nazi regime in Kiev tried to violate (and even amended the Constitution to be able to change its nuclear-free status), is one of Russia’s key demands that must be met in any settlement agreement to be reached, as stipulated at the talks in Istanbul in April 2022, when this requirement was written down on paper before the negotiations were disrupted by the Anglo-Saxons and other masterminds of the war against Russia,” Lavrov said.
More generally, he said: “We advocate for the creation, under current conditions, of a global security architecture rooted in the objective trends of multipolarity, the emergence of new growth centers, and one that guarantees equal conditions for the peaceful development of all states without exception. Let me reiterate: The foundation for this already exists—the UN Charter. What is required is for all to adhere to it in good faith.”
Putin, Lavrov reported, “has proposed an initiative to establish a Eurasian security architecture, inviting all states and associations on the continent—including those in Western Eurasia—to participate in discussions on its formation. In our view, this must be a distinctly Eurasian architecture, as Euro-Atlantic concepts—applied to the European part of the continent over the decades following the Second World War and throughout the Cold War—have discredited themselves.” NATO, the OSCE and the EU, Lavrov effectively argued, are pursuing an incompatible path.
“Russia proceeds from the understanding that our continent is already witnessing the formation of what President Vladimir Putin has termed the Greater Eurasian Partnership. This is evident in the alignment of integration processes within the EAEU, SCO, ASEAN, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and other subregional structures—including those in the Persian Gulf and the South Asian peninsula,” he said. “Numerous subregional organisations exist. Harmonizing these integration processes will lay a solid material foundation for discussions on security architecture."May 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a major speech to the13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues. He stressed both the growing demand of the Global South for a voice in world affairs and Europe’s mad drive towards war with Russia. “There are many people in this room representing the Global South and East. These countries are becoming increasingly vocal when discussing and addressing the most urgent and key challenges the world is facing today,” he said. “This reflects a tectonic shift in international politics, which took place over the past years and continues to this day. It primarily consists of an accelerated emergence of a multipolar world order, as well as new centers of development across the Eurasian continent, Africa and Latin America taking on a bigger role in the global distribution of power.”
This is a new reality that the West must recognize, Lavrov continued. “However, instead of approaching these developments as an objective reality, there are quite a few people in the United States and especially in Europe who view multipolarity as a challenge or even a threat rather than something good,” he said. “They view it as something threatening their infamous rules-based order, i.e., a framework the West has been trying to impose in the aftermath of the Cold War in the pursuit of its selfish interests. They have been acting in bad faith in an effort to impose a narrative describing the multipolar world order as nothing short of chaos or a war of all against all.” This view “fails to reflect the actual state of affairs,” he remarked.
As for Ukraine, Lavrov reiterated the Russian view, that while talks are better than war, the root causes of the war must be addressed, or there’ll be no peace. Among the root causes he described were the Kiev regime’s effort to eradicate Russian culture from Ukraine, and “the persistent efforts to drag Ukraine into NATO.” He also noted that Ukraine’s constitution of 1991 “solemnly proclaimed” Ukraine’s “neutral, non-aligned and nuclear-free status.”
“A return to that commitment, which the Nazi regime in Kiev tried to violate (and even amended the Constitution to be able to change its nuclear-free status), is one of Russia’s key demands that must be met in any settlement agreement to be reached, as stipulated at the talks in Istanbul in April 2022, when this requirement was written down on paper before the negotiations were disrupted by the Anglo-Saxons and other masterminds of the war against Russia,” Lavrov said.
More generally, he said: “We advocate for the creation, under current conditions, of a global security architecture rooted in the objective trends of multipolarity, the emergence of new growth centers, and one that guarantees equal conditions for the peaceful development of all states without exception. Let me reiterate: The foundation for this already exists—the UN Charter. What is required is for all to adhere to it in good faith.”
Putin, Lavrov reported, “has proposed an initiative to establish a Eurasian security architecture, inviting all states and associations on the continent—including those in Western Eurasia—to participate in discussions on its formation. In our view, this must be a distinctly Eurasian architecture, as Euro-Atlantic concepts—applied to the European part of the continent over the decades following the Second World War and throughout the Cold War—have discredited themselves.” NATO, the OSCE and the EU, Lavrov effectively argued, are pursuing an incompatible path.
“Russia proceeds from the understanding that our continent is already witnessing the formation of what President Vladimir Putin has termed the Greater Eurasian Partnership. This is evident in the alignment of integration processes within the EAEU, SCO, ASEAN, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and other subregional structures—including those in the Persian Gulf and the South Asian peninsula,” he said. “Numerous subregional organisations exist. Harmonizing these integration processes will lay a solid material foundation for discussions on security architecture.”
