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Russian FM Lavrov Chairs UNSC Meeting on 'Effective Multilateralism'

The UNSC summit will make special emphasis on building “a new multipolar world order based on sovereign equality.” This April, Moscow holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council.
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Sputnik brings you a broadcast from New York, where Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov chairs an open debate entitled “Effective multilateralism through the Defense of the Principles of the UN Charter” at the UN Security Council.
Russian officials repeatedly stressed that the era of the unipolar world – that is, US hegemony – is over and that a multipolar world is emerging. A brief period of US hegemony in the 1990s was characterized by blatant neglection of international law and UN norms. The emerging great powers are set to return the rule of law to international politics.
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