Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation spoke about the crisis of the non-centralized system

Western countries are constantly trying to use the mechanisms of the United Nations for personal gain, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said in an interview with Izvestia.

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"Unfortunately, the oonocentric system is currently in crisis. Its origins are the attempts of the collective West, which does not want to share its influence with the global majority, to turn the organization from a tool for building a multipolar world order into a mechanism for realizing its selfish interests," he said.

According to him, as a result, the UN's authority is "sagging" and the organization is losing its ability to fully perform its functions.

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