G7 summit: a meeting of "anti-Russian and anti-China hysteria" in Moscow's eyes

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on May 19, 2023. VIA REUTERS - RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

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For Moscow, the outcome of the G7 summit held this weekend of May 20-21 in Hiroshima, Japan, was nothing more than a set of odious statements of an "anti-Russian" and "anti-Chinese" nature. As for the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Kremlin believes that it has turned this summit into a "propaganda show".

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With our correspondent in Moscow, Jean-Didier Revoin

Under the leadership of Washington and London, the G7 countries do not hesitate to flirt with non-Western states to attract them to their side and prevent them from establishing relations with Russia and China: this is explained in a statement from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also points out that the panic fear of a multipolar world is forcing the G7 members to join forces to whip up Russophobia and Chinophobia.

Moscow has obviously had very little taste for the new set of sanctions decided this weekend in Hiroshima, stressing that the group of G7 countries is the main factor aggravating global problems, for the reason that they do not sufficiently take into account the interests of other development centers made up of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

As for the presence of the Ukrainian president in Hiroshima, it provoked an acid comment. By taking the head of the regime they lead to their meeting in Kiev, the G7 countries have turned the Hiroshima event into a "propaganda show", Russian diplomacy said.

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