MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/. The Group of Seven (G7) is "dying out," its members are demonstrating hypocrisy, duplicity, inability to negotiate, and dishonesty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the YouTube channel of the French-Russian Dialogue Association, recorded on November 21.
"French President Emmanuel Macron has already said somewhere that he will go and participate in BRICS. But no one invited him. I don't think there is a consensus in BRICS, or that even a majority of the group's members would be happy to see France with the positions it occupies in the global economy, politics, and finance," Lavrov said. "No, I think that country's place is in NATO and the European Union, which are now little different from each other. And, of course, in the G7, which is dying out."
"Look at how Western countries handle the norms and rules of the free market, the norms of globalization, which they have offered to everyone as the optimal manifestation of economic interdependence," Lavrov. "When they need to punish someone, be it Russia, Iran, or Venezuela, they display hypocrisy, duplicity, inability to negotiate, and dishonesty. Unfortunately, all of this is now clearly evident in the actions of our Western colleagues."
