Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Washington may go beyond its desire to govern Venezuela, Cuba and Iran.
“As for Iran, [US Secretary of State Marco] Rubio, responding to a reporter’s question, recently suggested that the United States would govern Iran. Just as they announced that they would rule Venezuela. Now a similar scheme is being tried out for Cuba. And, probably, this is not the end,” he said at a press conference.
He drew attention to the statements of US President Donald Trump and other senior US officials, who “do not hesitate to say that they will not be guided by any UN principles, that they will be guided only by the interests of their state.”
Lavrov believes that what is happening in the world now is “a reflection of profound changes and underlying problems in world politics and the global economy. Here we are talking not only and not so much about this crisis (in the Middle East – TASS). This is a reflection of the deepest problems that have now come to the surface and which consist primarily in the clash of international law and the absence of international law.”
He compared the current situation with “how it was in the XIXth century, before certain understandings were reached after the First World War, and after the Second World War, the United Nations was established and the UN charter was adopted.”
