Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Friday (June 30) for a widening of the U.N. Security Council to give more representation to Asian, African and Latin American countries in order to break what he called Western domination of the world, Reuters reports.
"To bring the main organs of the UN into line with current realities. I mean first of all the reform of the Security Council, where the West is disproportionately represented. Out of 15 members, the so-called "Golden Billion" occupies six seats. It is not fair, it is not equitable. That is why we will push for an enlargement of the Security Council as soon as possible to include the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
We are now witnessing a desire, a fierce desire to prevent Russia's rise as an independent center of a multi-polar world order. To this end, for many years the West has prepared and organized a war with the hands of the Anglo-Saxon Nazi regime in Kiev against our country," Lavrov told a news briefing.
He also reiterated Moscow's accusation that the West, especially the United States, was trying to prevent Russia and China from acting independently in a multipolar world.
