"All BRICS countries stressed the need to strengthen multilateralism, not within some abstract format, but through a universal format that is based on the framework of the United Nations (UN) Charter," Lavrov said.
"The UN is the greatest possible embodiment of multilateralism in our world, and we will defend exactly this approach, especially in light of attempts by our Western colleagues to promote an alternative concept, which they call a 'rules-based world order,'" he added.
The minister said that through this concept, the West is attempting to impose its own values, which are not shared by other countries.
Such ideas divide rather than unite the world's countries and this is why the BRICS foreign ministers' statement "in support of strengthening multilateralism" in its universal form is particularly significant at this stage, the minister said.
