Lavrov at Primakov Readings Peace terms and world order

Jun 24

Ivan Blagoy's complete Primakov Readings report presents Sergey Lavrov's rejection of temporary Ukraine solutions and a frontline pause for talks. Lavrov says the Anchorage understandings involved no Russian concessions, recalls his September Rubio contact, cites continuing and new U.S. sanctions and says practical bilateral progress, diplomatic-property returns and direct air service remain absent. He says Russia will hear U.S. envoys. He recounts a meeting between Mikhail Galuzin and the British, German and French ambassadors after the June 7 London statement, characterizing their position as demanding Russian capitulation, and says Europe cannot be trusted. He accuses Zelensky of directing Europe. Dmitry Peskov says alleged Kyiv leadership crimes must be documented and addressed and warns Russian advances will produce irreversible consequences. A session on world order toward 2050 includes Samir Saran's unipolarity critique, Peskov's question about independent European defense, Richard Sakwa's criticism of European militarism and Manuel Galileo's assessment of British policy continuity. Opinions, allegations and predicted outcomes remain attributed; no agreement or diplomatic breakthrough is reported.

In the June 24 Primakov panel's exchange about unipolarity, Saran argues that events in Iran and the inability of even the strongest power to open and secure Hormuz show that a unipolar world no longer exists. He distinguishes destructive bombing power from the ability to impose a will on large nations and describes today's leading powers as quasi-hegemons. He also places the end of unipolarity in the financial crisis he calls the 2007 crisis. These are his political interpretation and chronology; the exchange establishes no new military operation, reopening or settlement.