MOSCOW:Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Monday that the further strengthening of relationships with Islamic countries is among the priority areas of Russia’s foreign policy.
“Russia, the biggest Eurasian power, a state, a civilization, maintains good, fair, mutually respectful relations with all countries of the Islamic world,” he said at a meeting of the Russia – Islamic World Strategic Vision Group. “Their further development is among the continuing priorities of Russia’s foreign policy.”
Russia “along with its friends from Muslim states insists on the formation of a fairer, more democratic multipolar world order, which is based on the principles of the United Nations Charter,” Lavrov stressed. Furthermore, Lavrov rejected the aggressive imposition of ultraliberal values by the collective West.