{"id":79995,"date":"2021-09-29T19:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=79995"},"modified":"2021-09-29T19:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:21:23","slug":"russias-lavrov-at-the-un-not-might-is-right-but-right-is-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/blog\/2021\/09\/29\/russias-lavrov-at-the-un-not-might-is-right-but-right-is-might\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Lavrov at the UN: Not \u201cMight Is Right\u201d but \u201cRight Is Might\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Russia\u2019s Lavrov at the UN: Not \u201cMight Is Right\u201d but \u201cRight Is Might\u201d<\/strong>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept.\u00a028, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used his address at the United Nations on September 25, to make clear the important difference between international law and the reality behind the sophistry of a \u201crules-based order.\u201d International law is a principle based upon \u201cright is might\u201d\u2014not \u201cmight is right.\u201d The latter is behind the \u201cselfish interests\u201d of the \u201cso-called \u2018rules-based order\u2019 concept that the West is persistently introducing into political discourse as opposed to international law.\u201d The U.S.\u2019s \u201cSummit for Democracy\u201d makes democracy into a wedge to get into countries\u2019 internal affairs, but there can be no challenging the undemocratic reality outside of countries, such as NATO. Talk of democracy\u2014such as the U.S.\u2019s \u201cSummit for Democracy\u201d\u2014is a cover for interfering into sovereign countries and has no reality for relations between countries, where the undemocratic military weapons of NATO are not to be brought up. \u201cThe use of unilateral restrictive measures\u201d against Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, \u201cviolate the Charter-based principle of non-interference in internal affairs of sovereign states\u2026 undermines the prerogatives of the Security Council,\u201d and even ignores the UN call \u201cto suspend them at least for the period of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lavrov said that it was now time to stop the \u201cpolicy aimed at undermining the UN-centric architecture\u201d and choose the path of \u201crejecting any confrontation and stereotypes, \u00a0and joining efforts to address key tasks of humanity\u2019s development and survival. We have enough instruments for this.\u201d He enumerated them. President Vladimir Putin has proposed a P5 summit for a \u201cfrank discussion on global stability issues.\u201d As there were \u201cgreat expectations\u201d for the \u201cprospect of the Russian-American dialogue\u201d on arms control, per the U.S.-Russian summit at Geneva, this could work. He referenced Biden\u2019s extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty as encouraging. Russian proposals on addressing the cyberwarfare problem was a basis for common agreement, where concerns can be examined \u201cin a transparent manner, relying on facts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and in other hotbeds, all external actors must show an understanding of the cultural and civilisational specifics of society, reject politicization of humanitarian aid, and assist in the creation of broadly representative bodies of authority that would involve all major ethnic, religious and political forces of the relevant countries. Guided by such an approach, Russia has been constructively engaged in the promotion of the Afghan settlement via the extended Troika and the Moscow format.\u201d He added, \u201cIt was with great interest that we perceived the Global Development Initiative proposed by President of China Xi Jinping, which resonates with our own approaches.\u201d Lavrov finished with a twinkle: \u201cIn conclusion, I would like to propose a hashtag #UNCharterIsOurRules.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Lavrov at the UN: Not \u201cMight Is Right\u201d but \u201cRight Is Might\u201d&#8212; Sept.\u00a028, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov used his address at the United Nations on September 25, to make clear the important difference between international law and the reality behind the sophistry of a \u201crules-based order.\u201d International law is a principle based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":79996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,640,693,505,508,639,758,760,715,641,703,759],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-79995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-china","category-cuba","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-global-diplomacy","category-libya","category-nicaragua","category-syria-global-diplomacy","category-united-states","category-venezuela","category-yemen","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80006,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79995\/revisions\/80006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}