Attempts to rewrite wartime history jeopardize modern world order: Russian FM

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday slammed the attempts to rewrite the history of World War II, saying they would jeopardize the modern UN-centric world order.

"This is a very dangerous and long-term problem," Lavrov said at a news conference in the Russian city of Ufa, adding that any attempts of history revisionists to occupy the mass media should be crashed from the cradle.

He warned that these attempts have been aimed at a practical goal: to challenge the entire postwar system of international relations centered on the United Nations.

Speaking of the conjoining of the China-proposed Silk Road Economic Belt with the Russia-sponsored Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Lavrov said Russia's partners are ready to discuss all aspects of such conjunction.

"China and Russia are not the only two participants of the conjoining initiative. The program has been considered by our EAEU partners," he said.

On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reiterated their support for the alignment of each side's development strategies during their meeting in Ufa ahead of this year's BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization summits. Enditem