(ANSA-AFP) - ADDIS ABABA, 27 JUL - Foreign Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov visiting Addis Ababa has called on developing countries, especially in Africa, not to support a world governed by the United States.
"It is up to us to decide if 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, after the an African mini-tour that took him to Egypt, Congo-Brazzaville and Uganda.
"The West has 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. the 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".
(ANSA-AFP).