According to him, the holding of this event will become a movement towards the split of the world community into “friends” and “foes”.
“A fresh example is the idea of convening a“ summit of democracies ”put forward by the US administration.
The participants, of course, will be determined by Washington itself, arrogating to itself the right to determine the degree of compliance of a country with democratic standards.
In fact, this initiative - quite in the spirit of the Cold War - proclaims a new ideological "crusade" against all dissent, "Lavrov said at the general political discussion of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly.
On August 11, American leader Joe Biden announced a "Summit for Democracy" in December.