He specified that diplomats want the world to return to the path of sustainable development, as well as cooperation.

“This is what they want for us, and we also want our Western colleagues here, with whom we have normal relations,” RIA Novosti quoted Polyansky as saying.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that if and when Russia returns to joint work with Western countries, it will be carried out on a new basis, since the old approaches no longer work.