The persistent line of replacing undesirable regimes does not bring results, such an approach is counterproductive, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. As reported by TASS, he said this to participants of the A. M. Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Support Fund's "Dialogue for the Future" program.

"Recent events have shown that we can achieve success only through collective efforts," he said. "Any attempts to act unilaterally do not bring results, they are counterproductive and bring chaos." "I mean a persistent line on replacing undesirable regimes, on imposing our own development model," the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specified.

Speaking about the fight against the Islamic State (a group banned in Russia), Lavrov called the calculations on satisfying geopolitical ambitions inappropriate. "It is absolutely necessary for us now to put aside everything secondary and concentrate on the fight against terrorism," he urged. "Especially when the IS group has appeared, which has challenged the entire human civilization. The fight against this evil must become an absolute priority."

The minister also expressed the opinion that the international community should be more actively involved in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, rather than go with the flow.

Lavrov also said that the OSCE's activities in the security sphere do not yet satisfy the interests of all countries in the pan-European space. "In the area of European security, it has not yet been possible to at least make it so that the main pan-European organization - I mean the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) - could satisfy all interests without exception, could find a balance of interests," he noted. "Therefore, the problem of building a European architecture that would be based on a single economic and humanitarian space, on the principle of equal and indivisible security, is a very important task." "We consider our proposal to develop specific ways to harmonize the processes of European and Eurasian integration as one of the directions of movement towards this goal," the minister emphasized.

Lavrov called the line on regime change counterproductive