“The attempts to undermine the role of the UN and to create in its place a kind of“ community (club) of democratic nations ”also cause particular caution.

Ideas of this kind do not unite, but divide humanity, contribute to the escalation of international tension and, ultimately, lead to direct conflicts, "Medvedev said.

He emphasized that the UN was created against the background of the development of the concept of human rights, giving a humanistic direction to cooperation between states in various fields, and the ideas of human rights permeate almost all the topics that are in the focus of attention of its structures.

Medvedev's full article is on the RT website.