MOSCOW, July 25. /TASS/. The formation of a multipolar world and emergence of new centers of growth, such as BRICS, are met confrontationally by the West, a senior Russian diplomat said.
In his address to the G20 ministerial meeting on illicit financial flows and social protection, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin stressed that these issues are among the major represent major present-day challenges.
"As part of the implementation of the SDGs (sustainable development goals - TASS) we promised to focus the efforts on human needs, "make sure nobody is left behind". A task was set to eradicate the inequality in development level between the countries. In this context, partnership between the donors and recipients and the reform of world economic institutions in favor of developing states are in our focus," he said.
"We acknowledge with regret that strategic targets have not been implemented into practical results. Certain positive developments of recent years, by that I mean the rise of the multipolar world and emergence of new centers of growth such as BRICS, faced the confrontational position from the West," he noted.
According to the senior Russian diplomat, fair economic competition is becoming a thing of the past. "Instead world’s economic system turns into an arena for confrontation, blackmailing, dictate and political pressure," he pointed out. "Donors’ obligations, such as the developed countries’ allocation of 0.7% of GDP to the development goals or 100 billion USD to support the climate actions, are not fulfilled and get sidelined. The poorest states are now proposed to rely on their domestic material resources while discriminatory external environment remains unchanged."
