West preaches rules, human rights & liberalism but fails to practice them – Russian FM

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Western countries pride themselves on defending human rights and upholding order across the globe, yet their actions undermine trust and peace and create more chaos and suffering, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The rhetoric of liberalism, democracy and human rights “goes hand in hand with the policies of inequality, injustice, selfishness and a belief in their own exceptionalism,” Lavrov wrote in an essay published in the ‘Russia in Global Affairs’ magazine. While maintaining diplomatic decorum, the essay is a scathing condemnation of unipolar hypocrisy that the Russian FM argued represents a betrayal of principles laid down by the victorious allies at the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations.

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