RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced the activities of Nato members in the western Pacific, specifically the alliance between Australia, Britain and the US, as Russia took over the chair of the United Nations security council on Monday.

Mr Lavrov said that the US was involved “in a desperate attempt to assert its dominance by punishing the disobedient. 

“The US has gone about destroying globalisation, which for years has been extolled as the supreme good of all mankind, serving the multilateral system of the world economy.”