Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed the essence of Western diplomacy. He expressed his position, answering the issues of Chinese media. The conversation is published on the Foreign Ministry website.
Correcting about the current policy of the United States and their allies, Lavrov noted that in the West, they were used to apply classical diplomacy. “Diplomacy is a relationship between people, this is the ability to listen to each other, hear each other and the ability to find a balance of interests. When the conversation at the diplomatic level acquires the nature of ultimatums, and the partner is expected exclusively the” recognition of their mistakes “and the consent to the requirements for advanced requirements. This is not a diplomacy, “he said.
The minister complained that “as soon as our Western partners (who use such methods) are consistent with polite rebuff, they immediately go to the sanctions.” As the last example, he led the situation when the European Union declared sanctions against the Russian Federation “under a fictional pretext, accusing us that no one had ever proved, and even a single fact did not prevent us.”
On March 19, the Russian Foreign Minister came up with a new term to describe the actions of Western leaders. This was reported by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov. “Sergey Lavrov introduced a new political science term – friction diplomacy of the Western leaders,” wrote Zakharov. In his post, she led the words of the Minister from the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Goncharov Foundation, where he drew attention to the fact that “a new phenomenon appeared in the arsenal of a number of Western leaders: a fake, and sometimes friction diplomacy.”