Lavrov at Primakov Readings Order, conflicts and Eurasia

Nov 17, 2025

In his complete prepared June 24 address, Lavrov marks IMEMO's seventieth anniversary and presents Primakov's multipolar approach as an alternative to Western dominance. He criticizes selective application of UN principles, NATO expansion, sanctions and the financial use of the dollar, while recalling the national-interest approach he says was agreed at the February 2025 Riyadh talks. He characterizes Maduro's capture and U.S. oil influence as coercion. He supports ongoing U.S.–Iran negotiations, offers Russian good offices if needed for a comprehensive long-term regional settlement and calls for free Hormuz navigation. He says Russia revised and circulated its Gulf collective-security concept in late May, outlining phased conflict resolution, confidence building and regional control over outside participation. He advocates a viable Palestinian state together with Israeli security, criticizes Gaza-only arrangements and recalls the Russian and Chinese abstentions at Arab and Palestinian request. On Ukraine he demands binding security, language and religious guarantees, rejects temporary fixes and says Russia remains committed to U.S.-proposed Anchorage understandings. He praises the Russia–China declaration adopted during Putin's recent state visit, relations with India, possible RIC revitalization and consensus-based BRICS and SCO cooperation. He backs the Greater Eurasian Partnership and an inclusive security architecture, saying the Russia–Belarus Eurasian Charter proposal will be discussed at the fourth Minsk conference. His descriptions of motives, rights, responsibility and agreements remain attributed assessments; the speech announces neither a peace settlement nor an adopted charter.

The November 17, 2025 adoption of resolution 2803 established the Gaza framework with Russia and China abstaining. In his June 24 recollection, Lavrov says the draft focused on Gaza without the West Bank or unified Palestinian statehood, describes implementation as blocked and says Arab and Palestinian requests led Russia and China not to veto. In the September 26 exchange, Lavrov says the draft gave the UN no meaningful role but Arab states and Palestinians again asked them not to veto it. The journalist's non-deployment claim and Lavrov's later qualified account of incomplete Palestinian control describe unfulfilled or incomplete arrangements, not demonstrated implementation. The criticisms and control estimates remain attributed. In an October 7, 2026 retrospective, Bishara says Council recognition of an undefined Board of Peace allowed Trump to define it afterward. He calls this illegal while specifying he is a historian, not a legal scholar. His claim about Trump, Netanyahu and Putin's roles remains attributed; it is not a finding of illegality or an independently verified membership list. The original November 17, 2025 vote and his later public response remain distinct.