The Foreign Ministry noted the regret of the West for ignoring Putin's speech in Munich.

Many serious politicians in the West now regret that they did not listen to the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Munich Security Conference in 2007. This was announced on January 20 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"The West did not even react to President Putin's Munich speech in 2007, which many serious politicians now regret. They regret that they did not listen, did not hear and accepted it just as another rhetoric," Lavrov said.

He added that under Putin in the 2000s, Russia began to realize its place in the international arena and began to restore its identity with full respect for its thousand-year history, traditions and principles.

"Russia, as our new modern foreign policy concept says, is a country of civilization. We will not give up our roots, we do not have the right to do so, we honor the memory of our ancestors and we honor the covenants that our ancestors left us," the minister said.

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Earlier, on March 31, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that the West was not mature enough to understand Putin's speech at the Munich Conference in 2007. According to the representative, in his speech, the Russian president sent a powerful signal to the West "about the need to stop ignoring Russia's vital interests."

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