OREANDA-NEWS. Washington is trying to impose its approaches and slows down the activities of the World Trade Organization (WTO), where, due to the American position, the dispute settlement mechanism cannot function normally. This was announced on Thursday by the head of the Russian diplomatic service, Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the Tashkent branch of Moscow University.

"Attempts are continuing to use unfair competition in the economic sphere. Outside the G20, outside the WTO, Washington is still trying to impose its approaches, slowing down the activities of, so to speak, the World Trade Organization, where the mechanism cannot function normally due to the US position dispute resolution", said Lavrov.

"In the meantime, our American colleagues are trying to impose their solutions to world problems on a bilateral basis, using actively, without embarrassment, and protectionism, and unilateral illegitimate economic sanctions, and frankly abusing the status of the dollar", he added. According to Lavrov, "the future isn't for these methods of trading and others, including directly hot wars, but for the methods of building cooperation in the rejection of dictatorship, threats, and zero-sum games". He pointed to the need to "foster the values ​​of a dialogue of consensus and mutual respect".

“This is the only way to move towards the search for truly sustainable, not momentary, designed for some domestic political events and electoral cycles of solutions to global problems,” concluded the Russian Foreign Minister.