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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Remarks at the Business Council Meeting, Moscow, March 12, 2025

Excerpt:  “A regular and substantive exchange of views and coordinated efforts are especially important at this stage of historical development, where a hybrid and, to a degree, real war is being waged against Russia and attempts are being made to turn back the historical process of the development of a multipolar world. Restrictions, sanctions and other methods of unfair competition are being used in the economy, with disruptions in the value chain, the growth of artificially created debts and the fragmentation of the legal and regulatory environment. The governments of Western countries are taking advantage of their monopoly at international financial and other global governance institutions, undermining the principles which they promoted for decades, in particular, for the past 30 or 40 years, as universal and indispensable for the harmonious development of all countries without exception on the basis of a reasonable division of labour, the protection of property and the presumption of innocence. All this has been discarded when they set to work to play Ukraine against the Russian Federation in a bid to get a desired geopolitical effect. … I am confident that leading Russian companies will play a substantial role in shaping a new paradigm of international economic relations and in establishing stable cooperation mechanisms with foreign partners – without unilateral concessions and without compromising our long-term national development goals or, in the broadest sense, our sovereignty.”