Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov maintained that the West “is clouded by its self-proclaimed greatness and impunity and by its self-assigned right to govern the destinies of the world.”
This is how the head of Russian diplomacy expressed himself to the RT en Español portal, which asked him for comments on the recognition by the US and some Latin American nations of Edmundo González as president of Venezuela, despite the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro as legitimately elected president. of the country.
Lavrov indicated that this “contemptuous attitude” of Western countries shows their “presumption” and “contempt for the rest of the world.”
In this context, the Russian Foreign Minister denounced that for the West “democracy means only one thing: doing whatever it wants. “It is a shameless statement.”
