The United States has been claiming exclusiveness using the same technologies in foreign policy for decades, he added

MOSCOW, September 13. /ITAR-TASS/. The United States has failed to set the whole world against Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said in the Right to Know talk show on the TV Tsentr channel. “The United States, which I would not characterize as bad or cruel (that country is what it is, obsessed with the certainty about its exclusiveness and there is no way of reforming it), is sending its emissaries all over the world and persuading everybody to be against us,” Lavrov said. “That is true. But they have managed to persuade practically no one, except for the EU and some of its closest allies outside NATO and the European Union.” Lavrov said Russia by no means had the feeling it was all alone. “I cannot agree that everybody is against us, that everybody is trying to steer clear of us, that we have no partners with whom we can develop a constructive and decent agenda,” Lavrov said. “The geographic scope of international contacts in Russia and outside it is a confirmation of that. And not just the geographic scope, but the content of the agreements we conclude.”

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In this context the Russian foreign minister recalled the numerous documents Russia had signed with the BRICS countries and Persian Gulf states. As an example he mentioned the recent visit Bahrain’s crown prince paid to Russia to conclude an agreement with the Direct Investment Fund. “Western counterparts in the very same European Union wish to have contacts with us and they do have contacts, they keep visiting us, making phone calls and inviting us,” Lavrov said. “Some scheduled contacts have been postponed till later dates.” “That’s an ostrich posture,” he believes. “Having declared in public about a forced postponement of this or that meeting or visit they at once ask us ‘not to get it all wrong’ and confirm their interest in further discussions and solutions of everything that had been originally planned, but later. For God’s sake! We aren’t touchy. The United States is using the crisis in Ukraine to isolate Europe from Russia economically, Lavrov said. “There is a big battle going on, of course. America wants to use the current situation in order to separate Europe from Russia economically and bargain for the best possible conditions as part of the ongoing talks on the creation of a trans-Atlantic trade and investment partnership. The talks have been conducted for several years and Europe has been defending its interests quite stoically,” Lavrov told TV Tsentr’s Pravo Znat programme (The Right to Know). Europeans believe that the U.S. is seeking to reap unfair benefits in this process, he said. “These efforts have been stepped up lately, including through attempts to impose American liquefied gas supplies upon Europe at prices that cannot compete with Russian gas prices. There are undoubtedly economic interests behind this. But geopolitical calculations are playing a big and even key role,” he said. And yet the European Union is reevaluating the situation.

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