PERM, May 22. /TASS/. The West cannot accept Russia being an independent actor on the world stage, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the plenary session of the second International Public-Political Hearings on the Formation of a Contour of Equal and Indivisible Security and Cooperation in Greater Eurasia.
Lavrov also said attempts at armed confrontation with Russia have always ended badly for Europe.
TASS compiled the key statements by the foreign minister.
Western aggression against Russia
- The West cannot accept Russia as an independent actor and a civilizational alternative: "The West, just as it did 200 and 100 years ago, cannot accept Russia as an independent actor and civilizational alternative."
