New Delhi, April 25 -- Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of attempting to dominate the energy markets in pursuits of its own interests and abandoning internationally recognised diplomatic conventions. Sergei Lavrov was speaking in an interview broadcast on Friday, April 24.

Sergei Lavrov said Washington, in its dealings with Latin America and the Middle East, was "taking us back to a world where nothing existed" in international law.

Referring to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a military operation in Caracas and America's war on Iran and the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint US-Israeli strikes at the end of February, Lav...