Press conference by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after the end of the G20 summit in Brazil. teleSUR
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00:00In Gaza Strip, tens of hospitals, tens of residential buildings are being attacked and
00:11targeted on a daily basis.
00:13All this is shown in social media, and the West still undermines this strong call for
00:23to stop violence.
00:24And civilian infrastructure also includes the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and I think
00:30this will help us in our practical work that we carry on, seeking a transparent investigation,
00:39something that only Germany has been doing so far.
00:43Mr Lavrov, you have already partially mentioned the reform of the Global Governance Institute.
00:51In your opinion, have all the countries' interests come together?
00:55Where do you think the countries' positions coincide, and what is your assessment of the need for such changes?
01:02How realistic and comprehensive are they?
01:06Well, they are already included in the declaration.
01:12They are comprehensive.
01:14And the reforming of the Global Governance Institute, which you mentioned, the Security Council,
01:19I think this is a widely discussed topic that really requires consensus.
01:28Well, it's not complete consensus, at least by agreement within the United Nations.
01:36The UN Charter allows to vote if two-thirds of votes are cast, and this reform is considered legitimate.
01:44The trouble is, though, that this one-third of voters are still unprepared to face a certain
01:55level of reforms, which is going to be less legitimate.
02:02There are countries that are absolutely unprepared to see more states added to permanent UN members.
02:10And there are countries that demand that permanent members be new permanent members, being seen as priority.
02:21As you know, we support India and Brazil, who have declared their willingness to be listed as permanent members.
02:31But for this to work, the votes of African countries must be considered, and the West wants to drag out these processes.
02:47The Americans have already said that they support India, Germany, and Japan.
02:53Do we need Germany and Japan, people?
02:56They don't bring any added value to the UN Security Council.
03:00They just repeat everything that Washington says.
03:06I think the West has already overrepresented their six members out of 12 of the Western countries.
03:12And when Japan is elected here, it's seven out of 12.
03:18That's unfair.
03:20In the economic and financial sphere, the IMF, where the reform of quotas, votes, is being dragged out for many years.
03:33And this shows the United States' reluctance to put up with the economic reality
03:39and shows their willingness to slow down or even block the forming of a multipolar world order
03:49that would not depend on one hegemon, that keeps the reins of the IMF, the dollar, the World Trade Organization.
03:58They have already said that there are processes underway in BRIC, creating establishments,
04:06not opposing the Bretton Woods system, but parallel to it.
04:10And in the meanwhile, we are going to continue to seek just reforms.
04:16And the World Trade Organization, the argument settlement authority, has been blocked for many years.
04:25The United States just wouldn't allow the necessary number of experts to be elected in this authority.
04:33And the United States started blocking this authority when they saw that China is overtaking the United States
04:42in the very field of globalisation that the Americans created themselves.
04:49Playing by the rules they have created, Chinese economy has proved its efficiency, greater efficiency than the United States.
05:00This is when they resorted to tricks, blocking the World Trade Organization body, settlement resolution body.
05:09This is when they started resorting to more and more aggressive protectionist measures.
05:17The Americans will do the same.
05:19And a person such as Ursula von der Leyen said publicly that we do this, we use protectionism,
05:30because their electric vehicles are too cheap and this is going to harm our manufacturers.
05:36Can we call this fair competition?
05:41Fair competition is about making cheaper products that are in greater demand.
05:47The European Union bigwigs think differently.
05:54This shows in the way they solve food problems.
06:00They blame everything on us.
06:04They are blaming us for making developing countries suffer.
06:11At the same time, Ukrainian grain, recently there were farmer protests.
06:21Cheap and not always high quality Ukrainian grain is OK,
06:30but cheap Ukrainian electric vehicles is not OK.
06:35I think the European Union is in deep crisis due to this conceptual situation,
06:44where more and more capital cities refuse to listen to Brussels full of bureaucrats
06:52who only care for pursuing the policy that the American and the United States need in Europe.
07:00One of the results of such policy is very expensive energy.
07:07Energy tariffs in Europe are three to four times higher than in the US.
07:12This leads to deindustrialisation.
07:15Businesses move from Europe to the United States.
07:20So energy and food security I think is not something the United States should blame for.
07:46for a more fair and competitive scenario without the abuse of sanctions and coercive policies.
07:52He was also condemning the European Union's servile attitude towards the US,
07:56how they introduce policies that go against their own interests just to satisfy the demands of the US.
08:03He was referring to specific cases as in food and energy tariffs,
08:06which are four times higher right now in the European Union,
08:10that in the US forcing companies to leave the European Union to the US.
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