Meanwhile, russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has used his address to the Unted Nations General Assembely in new york to criticise the unites states, nato and the European Union for trying to force the world to play according to their own self centered rules. The collective west has a calling card and it has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then theyjust dont fulfill them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. For more on this im joined by phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at St Andrews University welcome to you. Good to have your own. What you make of the comments of Sergey Lavrov . To be as expected . On the one hand absolu
forces in germany which had been drawing down until russia invaded crimea. today russia suggested cut crimea is not on the table. we do not recognize russia s attempt to annex crimea. our crimea sanctions against russia will remain in place until russia returns the peninsula to the ukraine. mr. truax may also try to enlist putin support. mike pompeo is heading to north korea. this comes following reports of the north has been secretly expanding a major missile plan and upgrading its nuclear missile center just weeks after the summit in singapore. national security advisor john bolton is stressing the u.s. walking into these negotiations blind. there is nobody involved in this discussion with north korea in the administration who is overburdened by naivete. we have seen how the north koreans have behaved before. we are going to pursue this and we ll see what happens.