This kind of talk is exactly what the world needs to hear from a great power. Lavrov is echoing the call of China's president, Hu Jintao, for the establishment of new norms in international relations. The era of might and war should be dumped into the garbage of history and a paradigm of a peaceful world with mutual development between countries should be ushered in as soon as possible. Unilateralism brought nothing but calamity to the world during its reign of the last 20 years. A multicentric world is an absolute necessity. And it will happen.

armen08, Absolutely correct, and the best part is, that this is a natural process that is good for every country in the world. The only issue is how painful people make the unstoppable process for themselves. If they try to cling to the past, then the delta between their rightful economic position and their military power projection will be so great, that when the correction comes, it will be massive, and very, very painful, moving countries lower than their real underpinned economic true value. It is the classic bubble bursting of military sustained empires. Countries can either choose to plan for a soft landing, or run the possibility of a crippling hard landing. The choice of approach is theirs. The one thing however that is certain is that they can't buck the market. Russia, China, India .... have all realized this, that economic strength is the underlying real power in the world, which when balanced with sustainable military power, creates a defensive proposition allowing for the development of a harmonious, multi-centric trading peaceful world. They realize that by focusing on economics, trade and good relationships. While maintaining a balanced sustainable military defensive projection, the world becomes a community again. It is an approach of world wide economic and leadership projection, whilst having a domestic balanced military projection. Leadership can come from anywhere, there is a confusion in the world today, that leadership is control, is dictatorial mandates. When really lower positioned countries like Russia can and are taking leadership, indeed anyone can. Leadership is an action, not a position. Russia, China.... are taking the lead, it is as simple as that, any one else is free to also try to lead, and indeed many have great things to contribute, but a control freak mentality will increasingly not be accepted in the world community. That approach is in the past and doomed to fail. It creates an increasing oppression due to unsustainability.

Does international affairs really need a corrupt agenda?

Lavrov: "That would mean a polar-centric world order emerging and effective and fair mechanisms of global management formed,..." Lavrov is grasping for the mist if he believes the US will ever permit such a reorganization of the world order. The US considers the 21st century as the Century of American Imperium - and, so it shall be since no one dares to stand up to them, especially not NATO and the EU. Perhaps Russia, China and India may be a counter-balance to American imperial ambitions - time will tell. The only saving grace for the world is that in about 40 years, the whites in America will be a minority and the nonwhites will rule the USA; and perhaps, the American aggressions against weak nations (i.e., Sebia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.) will then cease.