📹 #UNGA79

🤝 The Russian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, has concluded its participation in the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly:

35 meetings, including 28 bilaterals "on the margins" of the UNGA.

A recap of what you might have…or might not have missed 👆

#ICYMI

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🎙 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov's remarks at General Debate of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly:

💬 Russia will always be on the side of collective work, truth and law, peace and cooperation in the interests of reviving the ideals laid down by the founding fathers. This is the aim of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations

🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions

💬 Our view is well known. The only beneficial way to reinforce the Council is by considering candidates from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Increasing the number of Western countries and their allies is out of the question.

#UnCharterIsOurRules

Итоги Евразийского межправительственного совета

✅Межправсовет утвердил Правила информационного обмена на общем электроэнергетическом рынке Евразийского экономического союза. Это завершающий документ в комплекте правил функционирования общего рынка электроэнергии, принятие которых предусмотрено Договором о ЕАЭС.
✅Главы правительств стран ЕАЭС одобрили распоряжение по гармонизации законодательства стран евразийской «пятерки» в области гражданской авиации. Правительства стран ЕАЭС до 1 января 2025 года организуют работу по гармонизации законодательства государств-членов в соответствии с нормами и принципами Международной организации гражданской авиации (ИКАО) в сфере летной годности воздушных судов.
✅Межправсовет утвердил дорожную карту по реализации Основных направлений и этапов реализации скоординированной (согласованной) транспортной политики государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза на 2024 – 2026 годы.
✅Главы правительств стран ЕАЭС подписали концепцию формирования общего биржевого рынка товаров.
✅Межправсовет рассмотрел отчет о зачислении и распределении между бюджетами стран Евразийского экономического союза сумм ввозных таможенных пошлин в 2023 году. Согласно документу, поступления ввозных пошлин в бюджеты государств-членов увеличились на 46,8% по сравнению с 2022 годом, достигнув рекордных 14,8 млрд долларов. Собранная и распределенная в 2023 году сумма пошлин максимальна с 2015 года.
✅Главы правительств стран ЕАЭС утвердили среднесрочный стратегический документ – Основные направления промышленного сотрудничества в рамках ЕАЭС до 2030 года. Новые среднесрочные ориентиры для промышленного сотрудничества соответствуют тенденциям развития промышленности в Союзе.
✅Также одобрены совместные прогнозы развития агропромышленного комплекса, балансы спроса и предложения государств-членов по сельскохозяйственной продукции, продовольствию, льноволокну, кожевенному сырью, хлопковолокну и шерсти на 2024-2025 годы.

#ЕЭК #ЕАЭС #ЕМПС

#RussiaHelps

🤝 Russia's EMERCOM delivers 33 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of Lebanon. The package comprises:

• food supplies, & power stations;
• emergency supplies;
• medicine;
• mobile power stations.

🇷🇺🇱🇧 #RussiaLebanon

🛰 On October 4, 1957, a small metallic sphere with four rod antennas burst into Earth's orbit... BEEP... BEEP... BEEP!

The entire world witnessed a historic event — the launch of Earth's first artificial satellite.

Sputnik-1 was in essence an aluminium spherical device, 58 centimetres in diameter and 83.6 kg light. Its body was sealed and protected the internal equipment from external factors. Inside, there were two radio transmitters operating on frequencies of 20.005 and 40.002 MHz, which sent out the iconic "beep-beep" signals, heard and recorded by amateur radio operators around the world. The four external antennas, ranging from 2.4 to 2.9 metres in length, ensured stable signal transmission. The satellite had no propulsion system and orbited the Earth solely due to the impulse given at launch.

🚀 A two-stage R-7 launch vehicle, developed by a team of Soviet engineers under the leadership of Sergey Korolev, was used to place Sputnik-1 into orbit.

🌐 The launch of Sputnik-1 was not only a great technological achievement, but also a symbol of the dawn of a new era — the Age of Space.

Ever since, dozens of nations have launched their own satellites — thousands are orbiting the planet this very moment.

💫 We are proud to say that ours — Sputnik-1 — was the very first!

🗓 On October 4, Moscow hosted the 6th meeting of the Moscow Format of Consultations on Afghanistan with the participation of special representatives and senior officials from Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi took part in the event as the main guest.

The Moscow format of consultations is the most influential multilateral platform where regional countries coordinate their practical approaches to the Afghan peace settlement.

👉 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks

✅ During the meeting, the Sides unanimously reaffirmed their support for Afghanistan’s development as an independent, unified and peaceful state. They expressed their readiness to assist Kabul in counter-terrorism and anti-drug efforts.

The meeting participants indicated their interest in developing regional infrastructure projects involving Afghanistan and noted the promising nature of economic and trade exchanges and investment cooperation with Kabul.

☝️ The Sides noted the significance of international humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, emphasising that it must not be politically motivated.

The participants adopted a Joint Statement.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine «The UN must recover its central role in coordinating actions by nations» (October 4, 2024)

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💬 The 79th Session of the UN General Assembly has recently completed the general debate, where President Vladimir Putin tasked me to represent the Russian Federation.

Does the Pact for the Future have a future?

Held as usual in the last week of September, the UN’s High-Level Week included the so-called Summit of the Future. The idea to convene it came from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and Russia has met this idea with understanding considering that the UN is sinking deeper and deeper into a crisis, and something has to be done about it. Russian diplomats joined efforts to prepare this meeting and acted in a sincere and honest way, even if we did not have any illusions in this regard. In fact, there were quite a few major UN events in the past which failed to go beyond bombastic declarations that were forgotten soon after their adoption.

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In 2015, the UN Summit on Sustainable Development adopted grand plans to fight poverty and inequality. In the end, they turned out to be empty promises in the face of the unwillingness of the Western countries to give up their neo-colonial practices of siphoning off the riches of the world for their own benefit. <...>

The current UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, just like Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon before him, has put forward an initiative under the slogan of giving a new start and resetting global cooperation.

This is a wonderful idea. Who could disagree?

But what global cooperation is there to talk about, when the West has trampled all those unshakeable values of globalisation we have been hearing about from everywhere for so many years. These perorations were designed to convince us that they would give everyone equal access to the goods of modern civilisation. Where is the inviolability of property, the presumption of innocence, freedom of expression, access to information, fair market competition under fair and constant rules?

How can we discuss global cooperation when the Western countries have unleashed a real war of sanctions against more than half, if not the majority, of the countries of the world, and the US dollar has been crudely turned into a weapon against undesirable countries? <...>

Key talking points:

• It is not too late to give the UN a new lease on life.

• It has gotten to the point where the West wants to turn the UN into an instrument for attaining itself-seeking goals.

• [The West is] hindering the badly needed change in the system of forming the UN Secretariat, where the key posts have been seized and are “inherited” by representatives of the Western minority.

• There must be an honest discussion by all UN member states, and not like a process in which the Pact for the Future was prepared – without a single plenary session of talks attended by all countries.

• Establishing a space of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia is crucial amid the all-encompassing processes unfolding in the macro-region.

• Our initiative is based on the understanding of the need for states and multilateral organisations of the Eurasian region to assume responsibility for ensuring their own security under the ‘Eurasian solutions to Eurasian problems’ formula.

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❗️ Today, the international community once again faces massive challenges, just like during World War II, which require united efforts rather than confrontation and desire of global dominance. Russia will always advocate collective efforts, truth and the rule of law, peace and cooperation in the interests of reviving the ideals set forth by the UN’s founding fathers.

🇺🇳 Working for the honest balance of the legitimate national interests of all countries, we can bring to life the purpose of the #UN as stated in its Charter: “To be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.”

🗓 On October 4, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi met on the sidelines of the 6th meeting of the Moscow Format of Consultations on Afghanistan.

During their conversation, the Officials discussed issues pertaining to the Afghan peace settlement, as well as bilateral cooperation between Moscow and Kabul.

The Foreign Ministers emphasised the leading role of regional negotiating mechanisms on Afghanistan, primarily the Moscow Format of Consultations on Afghanistan, and noted the counterproductive nature of foreign dictate regarding Afghanistan’s domestic development.

They noted the mutual interest of Russia and Afghanistan in maintaining trust-based political relations and expanding mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation, with a focus on energy and agriculture projects.

#Afghanistan

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (October 2, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Developments in the Middle East
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 Ukrainian Armed Forces’ links with terrorist organisations
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 US military build-up in the Asia-Pacific region
🔹 Russian chairmanship in BRICS
🔹 75 years of Russia-China diplomatic relations
🔹 Ministerial Conference of the #RussiaAfrica Partnership in Sochi
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s article about post-war partition of Germany and Austria

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#Ukraine #KievRegimeCrimes

People who came to the temporary accommodation centre in Kursk told journalists about the first days of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ invasion of the Kursk Region, including the large number of civilian casualties.

According to eyewitnesses, the Ukrainians warned the residents that if they did not leave, then “foreign mercenaries would come and leave no one alive.” Sudzha resident Vladimir Maltsev said: “Georgians, Poles, Frenchmen – all these mercenaries – were exterminating people like cockroaches,” and “a lot of women were killed, abused, and raped.”

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Kiev regime does not hide its links with terrorist groups around the world and, in particular, on the African continent and in the Middle East. The international community’s attention has been drawn to this more than once. In this regard, we note that an increasing number of states become aware of the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime.

We believe that this practice of criminal cooperation between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the international terrorist international is absolutely unacceptable. We will continue to fight this evil spirit by all available means, regardless of where it appears

#RussiaChina

Today, the relations between Russia and China are at their all-time high, and the effort to further reinforce them meets the long-term development goals of the two countries. This is a steady and lasting trend.

On the international stage, Russia and China have been acting in tandem and emerged as a major factor of stability. The two countries are committed to do even more to coordinate their actions in order to fast-track the emergence of a democratic multipolar world order with greater justice for all, empowering all countries to have a say on global governance matters, ensuring equal and indivisible security, and rejecting confrontation and conflict.

#BRICS

In our work, we primarily strive to stand up to the challenges and threats of our time, and find collective solutions to the global challenges of international development. Specifically, we focus on a wider use of national currencies, joint payment instruments and platforms in mutual trade transactions.

Our combined efforts are aimed at promoting and building an interconnected and interdependent international system on a non-aligned and non-hegemonic basis, which would give precedence to such common priorities as economic growth, poverty alleviation, food, climate and water security, combating international terrorism, extremism, and organised crime, etc.

🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Newsweek magazine (October 7, 2024)

❓Question: As the Ukraine conflict continues, how different is Russia's position than in 2022 and how are the costs of conflict being weighed against the progress made toward strategic objectives?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Our position is widely known and remains unchanged. Russia is open to a politico-diplomatic settlement that should remove the root causes of the crisis.

It should aim to end the conflict rather than achieve a ceasefire. The West should stop supplying weapons, and Kiev should end the hostilities.

👉 Ukraine should return to its neutral, non-bloc and non-nuclear status, protect the Russian language, and respect the rights and freedoms of its citizens.

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On 14 June, Russian President Vladimir Putin listed prerequisites for the settlement as follows: complete AFU withdrawal from the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson Oblasts; recognition of territorial realities as enshrined in the Russian Constitution; neutral, non-bloc, non-nuclear status for Ukraine; its demilitarization and denazification; securing the rights, freedoms and interests of Russian-speaking citizens; and removal of all sanctions against Russia.

Kiev responded to this statement by an armed incursion into the Kursk Oblast on 6 August. Its patrons – the US and other NATO countries – seek to inflict a «strategic defeat» on Russia. Under the circumstances, we have no choice but to continue our special military operation until the threats posed by Ukraine are removed. <...>

❓Question: How likely do you think it is that a military or diplomatic solution can be achieved, or do you see a greater risk of the conflict spiraling into something even larger with Ukrainian forces receiving more advanced NATO weaponry and entering Russian territory?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Making guesses is not my job. What I want to say is that we have been trying to extinguish this crisis for more than a decade, yet each time we put to paper agreements that suite everyone, Kiev and its masters would backpedal. <...>

At present, as far as we can see, restoring peace is not part of our adversary's plan. Zelensky has not revoked his decree banning negotiations with Moscow. Washington and its NATO allies provide political, military and financial support to Kiev so that the war would go on. They are discussing authorizing the AFU to use Western long-range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory. "Playing with fire" in this way may lead to dangerous consequences. As stated by President Putin, we will take adequate decisions based on our understanding of the threats posed by the West. It is up to you to make conclusions.

❓Question: What concrete plans does Russia have in line with its strategic partnerships with China and other powers to achieve changes in the current world order and how do you expect these ambitions to play out in areas of intense competition and conflict, including the Middle East?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: What we have in mind is that the world order needs be adjusted to the current realities. Today the world is living through the "multipolar moment". Shifting towards the multi-polar world order is a natural part of power rebalancing, which reflects objective changes in the world economy, finance and geopolitics. The West waited longer than the others, yet it has also started to realize that this process is irreversible.

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Multi-polarity manifests itself in the increasing role of regional associations, such as the #EAEU, #SCO, #ASEAN, #AfricanUnion, #CELAC and others. #BRICS has become a model of multilateral diplomacy. The #UN should remain a forum for aligning the interests of all the countries.

🗓 On October 7, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired a regular meeting of the #CIS Council of Foreign Ministers held in Moscow.

The Ministers summed up the results of the Commonwealth foreign ministries’ joint work in view of implementing the priorities of the Russian chairmanship in 2024. A wide range of issues related to CIS format interaction were discussed.

Sergey Lavrov informed Russia’s partners about its approaches to the topical international and regional topics, including the developments in the Middle East and the crisis around Ukraine.

📃 Statements by the CIS Foreign Ministers on the principles of cooperation in ensuring security in Eurasia, the unacceptability of using unilateral restrictive measures in international relations, and on cooperation in the field of fitness and sports were adopted. The 2025 schedule of multi-level consultations between the CIS foreign ministries within the Commonwealth was approved. The status of CIS basic institutions has been assigned to a number of Russian and Belarusian institutes and universities specialising in training personnel in mass communications, legal advocacy and volunteer movements, as well as in the field of countering terrorism and extremism.

Most of the documents considered by the ministers will be submitted for approval to the Council of CIS Heads of State on October 8, 2024. These include draft addresses of the CIS Heads of State to the Commonwealth nations and the world community on the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, a 2025-2027 cooperation programme in de-radicalisation, and a decision on determining the cultural capitals of the Commonwealth for the coming three years, among others.

ℹ️ The next meeting of the Council of CIS Foreign Ministers will be held on April 11, 2025 in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on Kiev regime using and planning to use chemical weapons

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Detailed information about the Kiev regime’s mass-scale use of warfare chemical agents in violation of its commitments under the CWC, as well as provocations staged by Kiev and its Western backers to falsely accuse the Russian Armed Forces of similar actions, has been regularly shared with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the UN Security Council, and the UN General Assembly since February 2022.

Despite irrefutable evidence provided by Russia, Ukrainian armed formations continue to use toxic chemicals (chlorine, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, and sulfuric acid) against Russian military units, civilians, and local administration officials. These include substances listed under CWC schedules 2 (BZ) and 3 (chloropicrin) and the RCAs.

This behaviour is enabled by political backing and approval coming from Washington, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Russian experts have documented Ukraine’s violations of
- CWC provisions,
- the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
- the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

Ukrainian armed formations also pose an environmental threat to chemical plants in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, and the Sumy, Kharkov, and Odessa regions.

The "collective West" has created an atmosphere of impunity that emboldens the Kiev regime as it proceeds to perpetrate larger-scale crimes involving toxic chemicals.

⚠️ We have credible information that, with Western support, Ukraine plans to stage a series of anti-Russia provocations in the special military operation zone. Preparations are underway to fabricate evidence to accuse Russia of CWC violations during combat operations.

According to Russian authorities, NATO countries delivered over 70 advanced toxic chemical detection and recording devices to Ukraine between July and September. <...> Simultaneously, Ukrainian security forces have been trained both in Ukraine and at NATO centres in methods of evidence falsification which were earlier used in Syria, the Skripal poisoning, and the alleged poisoning of Alexey Navalny. NATO countries, in part through the OPCW Technical Secretariat, are helping Ukraine build a “body of evidence” to further accuse Russia of CWC violations.

Here are the documents to back this up (available in Russian)

We take it that the fabricated “evidence” cooked up not far from the contact line will, as was previously done in Syria, be swiftly handed over to international experts for a so-called independent report accusing Moscow of chemical weapon use.

The motive behind this campaign is clear. 👉 No international legal standard will stop NATO countries from pursuing their stated goal of achieving a “strategic defeat” for Russia, especially when it involves chemical provocations under false flag, as used for long years in Syria. Moreover, Ukraine’s close ties with Islamist-affiliated terrorist groups and nationalist-extremist groups in the Middle East and Africa underscore the very real threat of “chemical” terrorism coming from Ukrainian special services.

❗️ We caution Washington and its allies against “playing with fire,” so as not to irreparably damage the CWC framework established in 1997.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s and CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev’s remarks and answers to media questions following a meeting of the CIS Ministerial Council

📍 Moscow, October 7, 2024

💬 Sergey Lavrov: We approved documents submitted by foreign ministers, among them:

• a document on the unacceptability of unilateral coercive measures aka “sanctions”;
• the key parameters of the efforts to form the Eurasian security system;
• cooperation in physical fitness and sports. This document is critical now that the principles of Olympism and fair competition are being called into question or just disregarded.

We have approved the 2025 plan for ministerial consultations, which includes around 20 important topics.

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The draft address to the peoples of the CIS countries and the international community on the upcoming 80th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War stands out among the documents to be reviewed by the heads of state. Notably, a CIS noscript, “1941-1945 City of Labour Glory” was established. The concept of a programme to combat radicalisation is another project to be reviewed by our respective presidents and prime ministers tomorrow.

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Sergey Lavrov answering media questions:

❓Question: The West is putting the heat on the CIS countries when it comes to sanctions on Russia. How are you coping with these challenges? How effective, do you think, is this Western approach as they try to inflict a defeat on Russia?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I can say right away that we are coping well.

The Western methods are met with rejection by all other countries, including in the post-Soviet space. The illegal practice of imposing “secondary” or “tertiary” sanctions, where someone doesn’t like it when two independent countries are building relations with each other, has nothing to do with international law.

Every step we take to not just preserve, but to expand trade and economic ties with our strategic partners and allies fully aligns with the norms of international law. They are talking about fair competition, market mechanisms, and inviolability of property. All these pillars of globalisation were promoted by the West as “eternal,” but have been trampled upon by the West itself. Honest and fair principles of interaction between our countries have always been there and are still there.

❓ Question: You have covered extensively the issue of a multipolar world within the Global Majority. How does this principle get implemented in the CIS? What are the threats to stability of our relations with our friends from the CIS?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: A centre of a multipolar world is forming (I would even say has already formed) within the CIS countries, a nascent entity many aspects of which have become part of everyday international life. The Commonwealth of Independent States and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation are an important, I would even say, central part of Eurasia. The CIS and SCO memberships largely overlap which fact accounts for close cooperation between these two organisations, and this cooperation expands and gets more specific every year.

The CIS and the SCO being so closely intertwined ensures interaction between the three largest Eurasian states, namely, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and India. These associations boast an immense economic, logistical, and creative potential. Each year, it materialises in even more specific projects that benefit our member countries and contribute to the prosperity of our peoples.

These relations face no threats and they are quite steady despite the United States and its satellites’ efforts to expand their “secondary,” “tertiary,” and other unlawful sanctions.

We know what we need to do to oppose these hostile and criminal attacks and to act strictly in accordance with international law and the norms of the World Trade Organisation.