The Federation Council Deputy Speaker spoke at a panel discussion called The Language of Diplomacy in a Multipolar World.
Federation Council Deputy Speaker Konstantin Kosachev spoke at a panel discussion called The Language of Diplomacy in a Multipolar World, part of the 26th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Konstantin Kosachev noted that the West had institutionalised a unipolar world for many decades, by creating Western-influenced organisations. “Consequently, we now have to institutionalise multipolarity,” the Senator believes.
In his opinion, the multipolar model is more organic for humankind, from the historical standpoint. This model began to erode, as two organisations, specifically, NATO and the European Union, grew stronger. “These two organisations started venturing beyond their territories and prerogatives; they imposed their own norms on other countries and ensured their own impunity and inaccessibility for all other global players,” Konstantin Kosachev noted.
The Federation Council Deputy Speaker singled out the main cause of contemporary conflicts, specifically, an imperfect model of international law and the possibility of interpreting this model in favour of “powerful” players.
“We can resolve the situation by eliminating legal gaps, by specifying the principles of international law, by banning its unilateral interpretation and by emphatically blocking the extraterritorial application of law,” the Senator said.
Other panellists included Vladimir Medinsky, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society; Alexander Pankin, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation; Sergei Pospelov, Executive Secretary of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation; Yevgeny Primakov, Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation; Igor Bailen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to the Russian Federation; and Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic to the Russian Federation.