Medvedev’s closing remarks National law and Maduro

Jun 24

In his complete closing remarks, Medvedev says adapting domestic and international law has become more complex, invokes Russia's constitutional changes and defends a relationship that, in his interpretation, no longer always gives international law precedence. He says national interests matter and corporate rules must not replace international law. Returning to Maduro, he rejects the U.S. legal justification, cites Trump's claimed reliance on morality with an explicit recollection qualification, and recounts an unnamed U.S. senator calling an analogous seizure of an American president an act of war. He uses this as a criticism of unequal treatment among states. He describes international law as the last regulatory barrier before war and hopes future forums can return to a calmer private-law agenda. Suvorova closes by reaffirming law among equal parties. These are attributed legal and political judgments, not a fresh constitutional amendment or military decision.

Dmitry Medvedev opens the legal forum's plenary on whether international law is a privilege of leaders or a right of equals. He argues leadership does not permit revoking others' rights or sovereignty and that law should guarantee equality. Channel One describes the forum's international participation and Vietnam as guest partner; its justice minister presents Vietnam as peaceful and stable. These are public positions, not a new international agreement. At the forum, Medvedev argues for genuine sovereign equality and alleges that Western privilege, colonial legacies and double standards undermine international law. He advocates applying existing legal institutions and viable models with contemporary meanings, rather than overthrowing the system, and says a stable balance is necessary. In follow-up he calls functioning international law an exception worth striving for; at the close he describes it as the last regulatory barrier before war. These are his programme and assessments, not an agreed institutional reform.