Indonesia hosted the G-20 foreign ministers and, as an organizer, had to endure the demarches
of the G-7 countries regarding the Russian delegation.
You were part of the delegation.
How did it all look from the outside?
What, in your opinion, are the prospects for the G-20 summit in November?
We have repeatedly spoken, and I will repeat with pleasure once again the words of sincere
gratitude to Indonesia, as the host country, which did everything possible to organize
this event at the highest level, where the main goal is to discuss pressing, global problems,
everything that is now facing world through the fault of Western regimes.
We have already said, but I will repeat once again that we positively assess the results
of the meeting of the G-20 Foreign Ministers, which took place from 7 to 8 July.
Published in the Western media, especially the day before, the materials about the alleged
boycotts of Russia during the event are a complete fiction.
This is how it should have happened.
Apparently, their manuals and theses were prepared in advance.
But, something went wrong.
As a matter of fact, it didn't go that way.
Most countries have not supported any boycott and everyone already feels heartburn from
the words boycott, isolation, unilateral measures and so on.
And not only in theoretical terms.
There are a huge number of practical tasks facing the world and the G-20 countries today.
To avoid seeing them for the painful feeling of the superiority of one power in the world.
Therefore, all attempts by the West to present our country as an outcast, the culprit of
all troubles, they collapsed.
All this, of course, caused a terrible panic in the ranks of the West.
I saw how Western journalists ran and tried, since the boycott of Russia did not work,
then come up with the idea that, perhaps, Russia allegedly announced a boycott to someone.
Literally with a stopwatch, they measured how long Sergei Lavrov left the meeting room.
What kind of negotiations and with whom did he conduct.
However, they did not notice that others were leaving the room in order to hold the same
meetings at the summit of the G-20 meeting.
These attempts by Western journalists looked comical.
I would even say tragicomic.
Then the heavy artillery turned on.
Several press conferences were given.
The Americans, Annalena Burbock, who again tried to reincarnate this topic, they are
completely confused about who boycotted whom.
This is complete nonsense, of course.
Everything turned out the way it should have been.
And, by the way, two days after the event, the Western press was forced to admit that
the G-20 meeting was proof that a united anti-Russian front on international platforms is a painful
fantasy of the West, and not reality at all.
It has nothing to do with life, and with practice, and with daily routine.
This is another attempt to impose a certain myth on the part of the Western mainstream.
Of course, they really want and do everything to make it so.
Literally by force, they are forcing countries, politicians to adopt an anti-Russian agenda,
to join some decisions.
Many countries are already publicly saying that this is unprecedented pressure.
At the same time, Western regimes still call themselves liberal, democratic, respecting
international law.
So, of course, they really wanted to isolate us.
They want to force their interests to be pushed through.
They didn't succeed.
They get angry because of this, fall into even more panic moods.
The active and meaningful contribution of the Russian delegation to all discussions,
the high intensity of bilateral meetings of the Russian Minister on the sidelines of the
summit clearly show that there is no need to talk about Moscow's isolation.
That's funny.
It is still impossible to solve any global problem without Russia's participation, including
in the field of strategic stability, food and energy security.
The most interesting thing is that we need to talk not only about how to solve all this
and get out of crises, but who created them.
Western regimes have indeed tried to impose the concept that Russia is to blame.
But, media and communication opportunities around the world do not allow these fakes
to gain a foothold for a long time.
You understand, I already read how many foreign heads of state are making statements calling
on Western regimes to stop this rhetoric and similar actions that lead to multiplication,
to a multiple increase in crises that they themselves create.
Russia's approaches find understanding and broad support among countries with emerging
markets.
Partners from these countries, where markets are being formed, we have repeatedly called
for children's arithmetic that 20 subtract 7, then we get a majority, 13 states.
These countries, along with us, gave sober and balanced assessments of geopolitical transformations.
They directly pointed to the role of the West and its failure to fulfill its promises.
This prompted the current increase in turbulence in the world and crises in a number of areas.
The realistic statements of leading Western analysts made there are also noteworthy.
An American was invited there to speak to the Ministers, I will emphasize this 2 times,
an American economist, Nobel laureate Jeffrey Sachs.
He noted, this is almost a quote, that the collective West is pursuing a line of confrontation
along the lines of the Cold War and creating new hotbeds of tension.
Hence everything else connected with the world economy.
It is worth paying tribute to the balanced and balanced course of the Indonesian G-20
Presidency, which I spoke about.
And, of course, largely thanks to the efforts of Jakarta, I am pleased to emphasize this
again, the meeting in Bali was aimed at solving the global problems facing the world through
multilateral mechanisms, of which the G-20 itself is an integral part, contrary to the
rabid aspirations of Western colleagues to give her Russophobic orientation through the
Ukrainian story.
We hope that the wise and balanced line of the Indonesian chairmanship will make it possible
at the upcoming G-20 summit on November 15 and 16 to come to an understanding of the
need for specific actions in this format to restore stability in the global economy, trade
and finance.
Although, I am sure that Western intrigues will continue.
But it is precisely this approach, filled with specifics, practical steps, true multilateralism,
that is necessary to meet the urgent needs of billions of people in the developing world,
far from the geopolitical games of the West, who simply need to live and survive.
For our part, we will continue to work actively and result-oriented within the G-20 in order
to collectively respond to global social and economic challenges.