FM Lavrov warmly greeting his counterpart Wang Yi, representing China, at the UN, on Sept. 21, 2017.
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ussian Federation's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's speech clearly rejects the bullying and arrogant hypocrisy in international affairs that characterises the United States, rendered brutally more acute under Donald Trump. (Not that things were substantially better for the world under the smooth demagoguery of Barack Obama.)
This is mature diplomacy, worthy of civilised nations.