MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax) - The goal of the U.S. sponsored Summit for Democracy is to form an anti-Russian human rights coalition, Russian Ambassador in Washington Anatoly Antonov said in an interview with the Newsweek magazine.
"Draft texts for the upcoming meetings give the feeling that this year Washington has set a goal of shaping a human rights coalition against Russia [...] under the cover of a noble idea of developing democracy," the media outlet quoted Antonov as saying.
The U.S. is "vigorously inciting others to include odious anti-Russian language in the draft of the joint final declaration," he said.
Antonov believes that the summit's final statement will be portrayed "as a common international position condemning my country for upholding national sovereignty and defending democratic freedoms of the Russian people in the east of Europe."
President Joe Biden's administration plans to hold the second Summit for Democracy in late March. The leaders of 121 countries have been invited to the upcoming event - eight more than during the first such meeting in 2021.