Sergey Lavrov said power was slipping through the hands of the old order, dominated by Washington, which has long rejected the principle of equality. Americans and Europeans "make all sorts of promises…and then just don't fulfil them", he told delegates. Quoting President Vladimir Putin, he said the West was "truly an empire of lies" which even during the battle against Nazism in World War Two, had plotted an offensive against their Soviet allies. Soviet and then Russian leaders "were given concrete political assurances regarding the non-expansion of the NATO military alliance to the east", which turned out to be pure deception.

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