ROME, November 23. /TASS/. The drastic reduction of Christian presence in the Middle East comes as a result of foreign values being imposed on the residents of the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Friday during the Mediterranean Dialogues conference in Rome.
"Christian presence is being reduced drastically, and this is happening in the countries where from times immemorial, the representatives of various confessions lived together in peace," Lavrov said. "And this, of course, is a direct result of the attempts to impose upon the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa the values which are foreign to them, the values and the recipes of how they should live in their own countries."
"Not only these countries, but the entire international community is paying a very high price for such reckless politics. Including the countries who, having violated the international law and the principles of the United Nations Charter, provoke chaos and anarchy on this huge geopolitical space," Lavrov stressed. "And sometimes it is my impression that the lessons of Iraq, Libya, Syria, are not really taken into account by those who try to continue those arrogant policies in this region," he concluded.
