⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on the situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh

Considering the drastic escalation in the armed confrontation in Nagorno-Karabakh, we urge the parties to the conflict to immediately stop bloodshed, cease hostilities, and do all they can to avoid civilian casualties.

A move that had a dramatic impact on the prospects for Nagorno-Karabakh settlement was Yerevan’s recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of the territory of Azerbaijan at the summits in October 2022 and May 2023, held under the EU aegis. This changed the fundamental conditions under which the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed their Statement of November 9, 2020, as well as the status of the Russian Peacekeeping Contingent (RPC).

☝️ As of the moment of its deployment in the region, the RPC has performed in good faith its mission to maintain the ceasefire and support contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Russian peacekeepers coordinated the effort to improve the humanitarian situation on the ground and facilitated the launch of a direct dialogue between Baku and Stepanakert. Even during these hours, the RPC is helping civilians, including by providing medical assistance. They are also evacuating local residents.

❗️The most important thing right now is to return without delay to implementing the package of trilateral agreements reached at the highest level in 2020-2022, which map out the steps needed to find a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, stop the armed confrontation, and do whatever is possible to ensure the rights and safety of the population in Nagorno-Karabakh.

⚡️ Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:

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📃 As regards the law of the sea, we consider it essential to preserve the integrity of the regulatory framework established by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and other fundamental instruments in this area.

🌊 New processes, including the agreement on marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction adopted in June 2023 and its system of global bodies, should not prejudice the provisions of existing universal and regional treaties, or mandates of competent intergovernmental organizations.

We are committed to the effective functioning of the bodies established under the 1982 Convention, i.e. the International Seabed Authority, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

We believe that the said bodies should act strictly within the framework of their mandates under the Convention, avoiding any broad interpretation of their powers or politicization of their decisions.

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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives at the UN Headquarters for the UNGA High Level Week events and UNSC meeting.

📹 Video by Maria Zakharova

✍️ President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to President of the Republic of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev on Republic Day.

✉️ We highly value the development of friendly and neighbourly relations between our countries, and mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in various areas.

I would like to reaffirm that Russia will continue to provide every kind of assistance to the government and people of South Ossetia in ensuring national security, as well as in every aspect of state-building and socioeconomic development.

🇷🇺🇯🇴 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ayman Al-Safadi on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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🇷🇺🇭🇳 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Honduras Eduardo Enrique Reina met on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 President Vladimir Putin had a conversation with Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, and Foreign Minister of China, at the Constantine Palace.

💬 Vladimir Putin: We are very glad to see a high representative of the People’s Republic of China in Russia, this time in St Petersburg.

I would like to say right away that the last time we saw each other was, I think, in February 2023. You came to Russia to prepare the visit of President of China Xi Jinping, who is a very good, important and cherished friend of ours. Indeed, his visit was a great success. I would even say that it marked a major milestone, especially considering that it took place immediately after Comrade Xi Jinping’s election as President of the People’s Republic of China. This was an important sign of trust and an affirmation of the high level of relations between us, and we understand this very well.

I must say that the visit was a success, as demonstrated by the performance we have achieved in our relations. It served as a positive impetus for promoting our bilateral ties. This relates to international affairs where our positions coincide regarding the emergence of a multipolar world instead of some kind of rules-based order. No one has seen these rules and they keep changing every day depending on momentary considerations and to benefit those who came up with this absurd formula.

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🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine

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🎙 Russia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Maria Zabolotskaya gave interview to RT on the issue regarding the International Court of Justice hearings.

🔹 The Kiev regime is using the ICJ as a platform to propagate anti-Russian made-up narratives, including the Bucha hoax and even the recent missile attack on Konstantinovka, which has been debunked by the Western media as well.

🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 Media Statement following the Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations on the margins of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (20 September 2023)

Key points:

📄 The BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations held their annual meeting on the margins of the #UNGA78 on 20 September 2023, chaired by the Russian Federation in its capacity as the incoming BRICS Chair for 2024.

• The Ministers exchanged views on major global and regional issues on the United Nations agenda in the political, security, economic, financial, and sustainable development spheres, as well as on intra-BRICS activities.

• The Ministers reiterated their commitment to strengthening multilateralism and upholding international law, including the Purposes and Principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations as its indispensable cornerstone, and the central role of the UN in an international system.

• The Ministers supported a comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including its Security Council, with a view to making it more democratic, representative, effective and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries in the Council’s memberships.

• The Ministers underscored the importance of sustained efforts aimed at making the United Nations more effective and efficient in implementing its mandates.

• The Ministers were briefed on the preparations for Russia's upcoming BRICS Chairship in 2024. Brazil, India, China and South Africa extended their full support to Russia for its BRICS Chairship in 2024 under the theme “Strengthening of multilateralism for the purposes of just global development and security” and the holding of the XVI BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia. The Ministers also look forward to the Standalone Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations in Russia in 2024.

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🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in the traditional #BRICS FM Ministerial on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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🤝 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in a Meeting of the #SCO FMs on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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🤝 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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🇷🇺🇻🇪 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Yvan Gil Pinto on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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🤝 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit.

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
 
💬 We will remember the Russian peacekeepers who, as always, absorbed the blow for the sake of peace in the region.
 
The miserable ingratitude with which the unscrupulous tried to question their activities will not overshadow their heroic efforts, but will mark the slanderers with eternal shame.
 
And now for the facts.
 
As of the beginning of 2022, Yerevan had three trilateral statements made by the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, dated November 9, 2020, January 11, 2021 and November 26, 2021, which served as a political and practical roadmap for how to completely organise life in the region in a peaceful and mutually respectful way that considers the interests of all parties.
 
Yerevan chose not to implement what it signed, but to try its luck with NATO/EU. It was through the mediation of Brussels and the main adviser, Paris, that on October 6, 2022, at the summit in Prague, a Statement was adopted following the results of a quadrilateral meeting of the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, France and the EU. It reads:
 
“Azerbaijan and Armenia reaffirm their commitment to the UN Charter and the 1991 Alma-Ata Protocols, through which they recognise each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.” That is, Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan. At the same time, the text says nothing about the need to ensure the rights and safety of the people living in the region.

It was officially published on October 7, 2022.

It was Yerevan’s final solution to the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh. Why Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian authorities chose to do this and why Paris and Brussels pushed official Yerevan to do so: these questions must be addressed to them.

🇷🇺🇭🇳 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Honduras Eduardo Enrique Reina on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s 78th Session.

During the conversation, the two Ministers discussed the current state and future of political, trade, economic, humanitarian and other kinds of cooperation between Russia and Honduras, as well as ways to further develop the contractual legal framework governing the bilateral relations between the two countries.

Sergey Lavrov and Eduardo Enrique Reina exchanged views on topical global and regional matters and discussed bilateral interaction on the international stage, primarily within the United Nations, and as part of Russia’s dialogue with Central American countries.

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🇷🇺🇯🇴 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ayman Safadi on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

During the conversation, an in-depth discussion of the key issues on the Middle East agenda took place with an emphasis on the Palestine-Israeli and Syrian settlement processes.

The two Ministers noted the same or similar fundamental approaches to resolving the ongoing crises in the Middle East, which have a negative impact on regional and global stability and security, within the context of compliance with the fundamental international norms.

The developments in Ukraine were raised in the context of the collective West’s attempts to provide unbridled support to the regime in Kiev.

In addition, ways to further promote traditionally friendly bilateral relations, including maintaining the political dialogue at the high and highest levels, were discussed.

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📆 On September 20 in New York, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the working meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member countries organised as part of the Belarusian chairmanship in the CSTO.

The discussion spanned a wide range of international and regional security issues.

The participants stressed the need to step up mutual coordination on the United Nations platform with regard to the current UN agenda and to further strengthen the CSTO’s interaction with the UN, in part, with respect to its peacekeeping efforts.

The Ministers reviewed the preparations for the upcoming Collective Security Council session scheduled to be held in Minsk on November 23.