Lavrov: Kiev Pledged to Nazi Ideas, Engaged in Inadmissible Humiliation of Russian People in Donbass

The foreign minister also called for an open presentation of any complexities and concerns in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.

Russia never bans its partners from communicating with other countries, unlike the West, which called on Russia's Central Asian partners to support the Western side in the Ukrainian issue, under the threat of losing the market and investments, Lavrov said.

The West's Indo-Pacific strategies to drive wedges between India and China are obvious enough, Lavrov said. The creation of AUKUS with the incidental humiliation of France, the policy of expanding the bloc format, including with Japan, New Zealand, and Korea, occurs at the expense of undermining those structures that have shaped the security architecture in Asia for decades, primarily ASEAN, Lavrov added.

Europe's industry is moving to the US, with Western political analysts saying that one of the goals of what is happening around Ukraine is to sharply reduce the competitiveness of Europe, and then China, Lavrov stated.

Lavrov stressed that the US considers China's rise "a challenge" to its dominance and is trying to contain both Russia and China. As such, Washington is forcing other western countries to isolate them, in addition to trying to create a rift between Moscow and Beijing. However, according to him, these schemes are "completely divorced from reality".

The meeting between CIA Director William Burns and Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, in Ankara last November was held at the request of US President Joe Biden to Vladimir Putin, Lavrov has revealed.

No one thought about any tribunals when the US invaded Syria and began to level Syrian cities like Raqqa. When the International Criminal Court decided to look into US crimes in Afghanistan, the US threatened it with sanctions, Lavrov said.

"No Arab countries have joined the sanctions, despite the unprecedented and most severe pressure from the West. I would even say, the unceremonious and self-humiliating pressure that the West is exerting," Lavrov said.

Lavrov said that three days before his speech in Cairo in July 2022, a delegation of Western diplomats approached the Secretary General of the League of Arab States, demanding that the Russian foreign minister's speech be canceled, or Russia be publicly condemned. They also demanded that no one in the Arab League be photographed with the Russian foreign minister. The Arab League, however, rejected those demands.

"All this Western chatter about them being ready [for negotiations], while Russia allegedly being not ready comes from the evil one. You asked about the prospects for negotiations between Russia and the West on the Ukrainian issue, we will be ready for any serious proposals, but we do not see serious proposals yet. We will be ready to consider them and make a decision," Lavrov told a journalists at the press conference.

Ukraine shouldn't have military infrastructure that threatens Russia, and there should be no discrimination, persecution of Russians who are Ukrainian citizens but want to maintain their culture and language, Lavrov said.