Sergey Lavrov is the Russian minister of foreign affairs who met with President Trump in the Oval Office at Vladimir Putin's request and to whom Trump disclosed highly classified information and disparaged former FBI director James Comey.
On Monday, Lavrov held his annual press conference in Moscow and attacked the United States.
CNN:
Lavrov dedicated the opening of his annual press conference Monday to castigating the US, which is expected to soon issue a fresh round of sanctions against Russia over its interference in the 2016 US election. Russia has long denied meddling in the vote.
Lavrov criticized the US for issuing regular "threats" in relation to events in North Korea and Iran, saying they had "further destabilized" the global situation.
He did not mention President Donald Trump by name ...
Lavrov addressed a broad list of topics during the two-hour-long conference, including relations with China, Europe and the crisis on the Korean peninsula. With nearly every topic, his answers inevitably returned to what has become a familiar theme from the Kremlin: Washington’s aggressive attempts to push its agenda globally are failing and, in the case of North Korea and Iran, have become potentially dangerous.
"Unfortunately, our American colleagues still want to operate only on the basis of dictating policy, issuing ultimatums, they do not want to hear the perspectives of other centers of world politics," Lavrov said.
The United States needs to face the difficult reality that it is no longer the world’s only superpower and adapt to an increasingly multipolar world, Lavrov said.
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Lavrov said he believed the sanctions on Russia were aimed more at boosting American’s position in the gas sector as well as at preventing Russia from securing a foothold in international weapons sales.
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"I would say that the [U.S.] administration’s actions indicate the fear of honest competition in a whole number of spheres," Lavrov said.
In addition to economic sanctions, he said he sees the U.S. move to require Kremlin-owned media outlets such as RT and Sputnik to register as foreign agents in Washington, as well as the International Olympic Committee’s decision to ban Russian athletes from competing under their own flag in South Korea next month, as part of an orchestrated effort to unfairly punish Russia.
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