Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a visit to Addis Ababa urged developing countries, especially in Africa, not to support a world ruled by the United States.
"It is up to us to decide whether we want a world in which a West, totally submissive to the United States, believes it has the right to decide when and how to promote its interests without respecting international norms," Lavrov said at the Russian Embassy in Ethiopia, the last stop of an African mini-tour that took him to Egypt, Congo-Brazzaville and Uganda.
"The West created a system based on certain principles: market economy, fair competition, inviolability of private property, presumption of innocence - explained Lavrov -. All these principles were thrown down the drain when they did what they thought was necessary. to punish Russia ".
Then the warning to African countries: "I have no doubt that, if necessary, they will not hesitate to do the same with any other country that annoys them in one way or another".