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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow does not want to take revenge on anyone and does not reject its former Western partners.
"And we have no desire to take revenge on anyone, nor to vent our anger on anyone," declared the head of Russian diplomacy during a meeting with students and professors of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). "In general, we believe that anger is a bad counselor and that the desire for revenge is a bad counselor," he added.
In addition, the Russian chancellor stressed that if the former Western partners reconsider and wish to return to Russia to work, they will not be rejected. However, the authorities will take into account that the last time they fled "by order of political leaders," he added.
"We always start from the premise that the formation processes of a large Eurasian association will also be open to the western part of our continent," Lavrov expressed, who ventured that this will happen when Western partners "stop considering themselves the golden millennium" and "a flourishing garden surrounded by jungles."
Likewise, the Russian Foreign Minister emphasized that his country does not want to erect any wall like the Berlin Wall and that it is willing to dialogue with everyone, although he wants the dialogue to be established on an equal footing.
"Raising walls like the Berlin Wall was done in the Western style, symbolic walls between us and our enormous Eurasian space, which was the Soviet Union and is now the post-Soviet space. We don't want to raise any walls. We want to work honestly. If our interlocutors are willing to do the same, we are willing to dialogue with everyone on a basis of equality and mutual respect," he stated.
