🎙 Key takeaways from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following the High-Level Week of the UNGA 81st session (New York, 26 September 2026) • The United Nations needs to be adapted to the new reality by reforming the Security Council to include additional representatives from Asia, Africa and Latin America. No additional seats can be provided for Western countries. We cannot allow this because the West is already overrepresented in the UN Security Council. • All damage to commercial navigation is the result of Ukrainian terrorist attacks in both the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. • We have several communication channels with a whole number of EU and NATO countries. If you wish, there are confidential paths for exchanging opinions bilaterally. Certain Western bodies do convey their positions to us. We do not disclose that information, but I can only say that we are always willing to listen. • We maintain a regular dialogue with President Donald Trump’s administration in various formats, which in itself represents a return to normality. After all, if a relationship boils down to issuing propaganda statements every morning condemning Russia and demanding a “strategic defeat” for Russia, that is not diplomacy. • In today’s world, it is impossible to solve all global problems alone, even for a country like the US, and certainly not at the expense of other nations. I am confident that experience will teach our American partners to start thinking in terms of multilateralism. They are not the only ones in the world representing economic and military power, or, more broadly, acting as an independent player on the international stage. • We have no intention of waging a war on Europe. But it is Europe that is preparing for a war with us. They confirm every day that, by at least 2030, they must be ready for war. This stance could become a self-fulfilling prophecy given the enormous sums they are investing in weapons production. Read in full