Atlantic Charter seeks to deepen gap between West and other countries - Lavrov The Russian Foreign Minister pointed out that a series of summits demonstrated "have signaled the return by the United States into European affairs and the restored consolidation of the Old World under the wing of the new administration in Washington" MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/. The New Atlantic Charter seeks to deepen the gap between the West and the rest of the world - "between the so-called liberal democracies and all other nations", Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote in his article published in Kommersant and Russia in Global Affairs on Monday.