The Western countries “hide behind” the noble slogans of democracy and human rights while seeking to resolve the challenges they face at the expense of others and “continuing to siphon off” resources from the developing countries, Consul General of the Russian Federation of Southern India in Chennai Oleg N. Avdeev contended in Chennai on Thursday.
Delivering a special address at a panel discussion on ‘BRICS Summit 2023: Outcomes and Future Prospects’, Mr. Avdeev said the Western states have gone to great lengths to preserve the unipolar world as it used to be. “It suits them, and they are the ones who benefit from it. They are trying to substitute international law with their own rules-based order, as they call it, but no one has seen these rules.”
The emerging new world order was also “threatened by the radical neoliberalism certain countries are trying to impose, aiming to destroy traditional values that are important to all of us: the family and respect for national and religious traditions,” he contended. While in G-7, “everybody looks up to the United States” but in BRICS, every participant was equal to others, Mr. Avdeev said.
