Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, stated that he has always admired George Orwell's imagination in his book 1984, a satire on totalitarian regimes, but remarked that Orwell could never have imagined totalitarian regimes as they exist in the West today.

According to Lavrov, the U.S., Europe, and some Asian nations like Japan and South Korea live under a "rules-based totalitarianism." In contrast, Russia and China, supported by nations such as Iran and Egypt, offer the world a multipolar New World Order (NWO) which, in the Russian-Chinese view, would be more just, more democratic, and better protect the rights and sovereignty of nations.

https://video.nostr.build/41feba4da721b916f2e2f68a76f8e2429cf7aa592dba1430d268bf31eb8a34b8.mp4 

 Nations don’t have rights, though.  Their  individual people do. 

 Nations  have the right to exist and be sovereign.
But it’s more likely that he meant „governments“ and he said „nations“ to sound less totalitarian. 

 No.
People have rights, nations do not. 

 Who has the right to make such a statement and call it „legally binding“ and why? 

 “Who has the right to make such a statement “

Anyone.

“legally binding“

Unless it’s voluntary, it’s no more principled than rape; no matter how much authority you want to defer to, or how many you strawmen you construct.