Like it or not, it's time to negotiate

Like it or not, it’s time to negotiate

Posted On: December 26, 2022

Russian Foreign Ministry head Sergei Lavrov told the media that in the near future Western countries will lose the ability to “steer” the world economy and will have to start negotiations.

– Whether (they – editor’s note) like it or not, the time has come for negotiations – said the minister.

At the same time, Lavrov stressed that Moscow would not “run after the West”. “They have severed almost all relations. We have someone with whom to develop economic, social, cultural and sporting cooperation,” explained the politician.

– We will focus on those who have never let us down and with whom we have sometimes found very difficult compromises. But when we have achieved them, no one has ever deceived anyone. In the West, it is exactly the opposite,” added the MFA official.

Last week, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry explained to the media why the Kremlin had launched an invasion of Ukraine. “The special military operation was absolutely necessary,” Lavrov said.

As the politician further explains, the Kremlin thus thwarted plans to turn Ukraine into an “anti-Russian” entity.

Lavrov: the Poles are digging a grave

In early December, Lavrov attacked Poland as part of a meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe being held in Łódź. We talk a lot about the top for a long time due to the lack of consent to the entry of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry into Polish territory.

Moreover, the Russian media did not receive accreditation.

The head of Russian diplomacy said that Poland’s actions made the OSCE a “marginal organization”. “No one has ever done the OSCE more harm than the Polish presidency in 2022,” Lavrov was quoted as saying by the pro-Kremlin news agency TASS.

However, the politician believes that Poland is not the only “to blame” for the current state of the OSCE. – In fact, it was the Swedes who began to prepare the funeral of the OSCE. And our Polish neighbors diligently dig a grave for this organization throughout the year, destroying the vestiges of consensus culture, Lavrov argues.