Russia’s Lavrov calls for UN Security Council membership to be expanded

MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Friday for a widening of the UN Security Council to give more representation to Asian, African and Latin American countries in order to break what he called Western domination of the world.

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“A majority of the world does not want to live according to Western rules,” Lavrov told a news briefing. He also reiterated Moscow’s accusation that the West, especially the United States, was trying to prevent Russia and China from acting independently in a multipolar world.