Lavrov pointed to the lesson that Russia has learned at the UN: This will not happen again

Russia has learned a lesson from the experience of communicating with the West at the UN site and will no longer negotiate with it on an equal footing, because it no longer believes in its basic decency. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking at the government hour in the State Duma.

"By the way, one of the lessons we have learned is that earlier, during the period of continuing hopes that it is possible to negotiate with the West on a mutually beneficial basis, we did many things in The Security Council was allowed to pass, agreeing with them, although they understood that there was some kind of trap there. But we hoped that the West would observe basic decency," the minister said.

He explained that he was referring, in particular, to the trend according to which, if the West makes a proposal for sanctions, they are not limited in time.

"We always prefer, if we apply any sanctions against a country, then let's do it for six months, a year to give the country a chance to eliminate those shortcomings, criticisms that have been made," the head of Russian diplomacy explained. — And at that time, when we still hoped that it would be possible to negotiate normally with the West on an equal footing, we agreed several times to adopt sanctions regimes without time limits. It won't happen again."

Lavrov pointed out that, for example, the sanctions imposed against the DPRK will probably not be lifted.

"I don't see how the West can do this. They will block the lifting of these sanctions. We will block, together with our Chinese friends, the addition of any new restrictions on the DPRK," the minister stressed, quoted by TASS.