Forwarded from Russian Delegation to UNESCO
📆May, 21 is the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.
In Russia 🇷🇺, a country with more than 190 ethnic groups, we pay great attention to the protection of cultural diversity. A vivid example of the diverse living heritage of our country is the register of Russian Intangible Cultural Heritage with more than 150 objects, which represent traditional folk culture.
The rights to participate in cultural life, to use cultural institutions and to have access to cultural values are protected by Russian 🇷🇺legislation.
☝️Only through embracing the differences and fostering mutual understanding among cultures we can reach inclusive, agile and resilient society.
In Russia 🇷🇺, a country with more than 190 ethnic groups, we pay great attention to the protection of cultural diversity. A vivid example of the diverse living heritage of our country is the register of Russian Intangible Cultural Heritage with more than 150 objects, which represent traditional folk culture.
The rights to participate in cultural life, to use cultural institutions and to have access to cultural values are protected by Russian 🇷🇺legislation.
☝️Only through embracing the differences and fostering mutual understanding among cultures we can reach inclusive, agile and resilient society.
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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 Excerpts from President Vladimir Putin's remarks at the meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations:
💬 We are aware of the aggressive external pressure being put on Russia and our society. We have to deal with nearly all instruments in the enemies’ arsenals, including economic, military, political and information tools, as well as formidable anti-Russia propaganda.
The attacks on our history, culture and spiritual values never ease up, just as the attempts to undermine the unity and fraternal relations among our peoples.
Our adversaries have decided that Russia’s multi-ethnicity is a tender spot, and they are making every effort to divide us.
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❗️ The people behind these kinds of concepts are accustomed to following Western ideological blueprints steeped in racist neo-colonial approaches and assertions of some kind of exceptionalism of some nations and inferiority of the others and the habitual division of nations into the first, second and third grades.
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Our state was built around values of multiethnic harmony. This is the bedrock foundation underlying our consolidation, which is only getting stronger in the face of external aggressions and threats. Our adversaries, that I mentioned earlier, people with neo-colonial mindsets – halfwits, in fact – are unable to realise that diversity makes us stronger.
☝️ The stronger the sanctions, the nastier the slander, the higher this manifestation of general consolidation.
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💬 We are aware of the aggressive external pressure being put on Russia and our society. We have to deal with nearly all instruments in the enemies’ arsenals, including economic, military, political and information tools, as well as formidable anti-Russia propaganda.
The attacks on our history, culture and spiritual values never ease up, just as the attempts to undermine the unity and fraternal relations among our peoples.
Our adversaries have decided that Russia’s multi-ethnicity is a tender spot, and they are making every effort to divide us.
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❗️ The people behind these kinds of concepts are accustomed to following Western ideological blueprints steeped in racist neo-colonial approaches and assertions of some kind of exceptionalism of some nations and inferiority of the others and the habitual division of nations into the first, second and third grades.
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Our state was built around values of multiethnic harmony. This is the bedrock foundation underlying our consolidation, which is only getting stronger in the face of external aggressions and threats. Our adversaries, that I mentioned earlier, people with neo-colonial mindsets – halfwits, in fact – are unable to realise that diversity makes us stronger.
☝️ The stronger the sanctions, the nastier the slander, the higher this manifestation of general consolidation.
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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
#Announcement
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at approximately 11 am MSK (2 pm GMT) on May 24.
☝️ In light of measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and WHO recommendations on holding public events via teleconferencing, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson will answer media questions received by the call centre. Accredited journalists will be sent detailed information concerning the technical aspects of submitting questions.
❗️ Accreditation is open until 10 am on May 23.
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova will hold a briefing on current foreign policy issues at approximately 11 am MSK (2 pm GMT) on May 24.
☝️ In light of measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and WHO recommendations on holding public events via teleconferencing, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson will answer media questions received by the call centre. Accredited journalists will be sent detailed information concerning the technical aspects of submitting questions.
❗️ Accreditation is open until 10 am on May 23.
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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 The summit of the so-called Group of Seven aka the #G7 ended in Hiroshima, Japan. Its main result is a set of statements saturated with questionable passages of an anti-Russia and anti-China nature.
Thus, the G7 summit has once again produced politicised decisions aimed at drawing diving lines in international relations.
The Group of Seven used to be an association whose members coordinated their positions on various issues on the global agenda. However, it has now irreversibly deteriorated, becoming an “incubator” which, under Anglo-Saxon leadership, hatches destructive initiatives and subverts global stability. The initiatives are subsequently imposed on pro-US minions made up of NATO, the EU and other satellites of Washington.
The implausibility of G7 nations’ claims to be the global guarantor of financial and economic stability became conclusively evident to everyone during the 2008-2009 crisis. The international events of the past few years indicate that G7 is unable to offer anything productive in either politics or diplomacy.
❗️ Panic over the objective process of the emergence of multipolarity and the destruction of the US-centred hegemony that used to allow the West to plunder the world, makes the Group’s members put every effort into fanning Russophobic and Sinophobic hysteria.
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Against such an unattractive backdrop, the G7 countries are not shy about flirting with non-Western states so as to bring them to their side and not allow them to develop ties with Russia and China. At the same time, it is obvious that the G7 is the main factor in exacerbating global problems. It cannot reflect the interests of other centres of development, especially those of the Asia-Pacific region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
☝️ We believe that our assessments of the G7 and its destructive actions are shared by the majority of the world community.
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Thus, the G7 summit has once again produced politicised decisions aimed at drawing diving lines in international relations.
The Group of Seven used to be an association whose members coordinated their positions on various issues on the global agenda. However, it has now irreversibly deteriorated, becoming an “incubator” which, under Anglo-Saxon leadership, hatches destructive initiatives and subverts global stability. The initiatives are subsequently imposed on pro-US minions made up of NATO, the EU and other satellites of Washington.
The implausibility of G7 nations’ claims to be the global guarantor of financial and economic stability became conclusively evident to everyone during the 2008-2009 crisis. The international events of the past few years indicate that G7 is unable to offer anything productive in either politics or diplomacy.
❗️ Panic over the objective process of the emergence of multipolarity and the destruction of the US-centred hegemony that used to allow the West to plunder the world, makes the Group’s members put every effort into fanning Russophobic and Sinophobic hysteria.
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Against such an unattractive backdrop, the G7 countries are not shy about flirting with non-Western states so as to bring them to their side and not allow them to develop ties with Russia and China. At the same time, it is obvious that the G7 is the main factor in exacerbating global problems. It cannot reflect the interests of other centres of development, especially those of the Asia-Pacific region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
☝️ We believe that our assessments of the G7 and its destructive actions are shared by the majority of the world community.
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Forwarded from Russian Embassy in South Africa
The Soviet Union – an advocate of African decolonization
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🤝 The Soviet Union provided multifaceted assistance to African countries, including support for the national liberation movements on the continent.
🤝 The first treaty establishing diplomatic relations with an African state was signed in 1958 with Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence.
🤝 At the initiative of the USSR, the UN General Assembly adopted the historic Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in 1960. It proclaimed on behalf of UN member states the need for an immediate and unconditional end to colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.
🤝 Soviet representatives actively sought the liberation of the last colonies. At the initiative of the USSR together with Guinea, the UN GA in 1973 adopted the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.
#RussiaAfrica #RussiaHelps
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🤝 The Soviet Union provided multifaceted assistance to African countries, including support for the national liberation movements on the continent.
🤝 The first treaty establishing diplomatic relations with an African state was signed in 1958 with Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence.
🤝 At the initiative of the USSR, the UN General Assembly adopted the historic Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in 1960. It proclaimed on behalf of UN member states the need for an immediate and unconditional end to colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.
🤝 Soviet representatives actively sought the liberation of the last colonies. At the initiative of the USSR together with Guinea, the UN GA in 1973 adopted the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.
#RussiaAfrica #RussiaHelps
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 31st Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (Moscow, May 20, 2023)
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Key points:
• The Western “track” in our foreign policy as it was developed until recently is no longer viable.
• We are now at the point of fierce confrontation with an aggressive bloc composed of the United States, the EU, and NATO, which has stated loudly and openly that its goal is to “defeat Russia on the battlefield.”
• The Western expert community is openly discussing an “order” for Russian partition scenarios they have received. It is not being hidden that Russia’s existence as an independent centre is incompatible with the goal of attaining the West’s global domination.
• If we take the global trends, the developments around Ukraine are accelerating the transition to a multipolar system of international relations.
• Washington made use of the Ukraine crisis to consolidate its camp. We see this. But this is more reminiscent of total submission to a centre that dictates its will. But consolidation has taken place despite this. Simultaneously, however, a fault line has emerged between the collective West and the global majority, the countries of the Global South and East.
• The EU, to our immense regret, had lost its independence and become fully dependent on the United States.
• The current era is one of transition to multipolarity, where nations refuse to obey the hegemon. This historical era may be of a long duration. We have many allies in this work and struggle. All of you see and describe our relations with the People’s Republic of China, India, the ASEAN countries, the Gulf states, Iran, Türkiye, the African Union, and the resuscitated Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. This one is getting a second wind after the elections in Brazil. There are many other countries and associations. In the post-Soviet space, these include the CIS, CSTO, and EAEU.
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Key points:
• The Western “track” in our foreign policy as it was developed until recently is no longer viable.
• We are now at the point of fierce confrontation with an aggressive bloc composed of the United States, the EU, and NATO, which has stated loudly and openly that its goal is to “defeat Russia on the battlefield.”
• The Western expert community is openly discussing an “order” for Russian partition scenarios they have received. It is not being hidden that Russia’s existence as an independent centre is incompatible with the goal of attaining the West’s global domination.
• If we take the global trends, the developments around Ukraine are accelerating the transition to a multipolar system of international relations.
• Washington made use of the Ukraine crisis to consolidate its camp. We see this. But this is more reminiscent of total submission to a centre that dictates its will. But consolidation has taken place despite this. Simultaneously, however, a fault line has emerged between the collective West and the global majority, the countries of the Global South and East.
• The EU, to our immense regret, had lost its independence and become fully dependent on the United States.
• The current era is one of transition to multipolarity, where nations refuse to obey the hegemon. This historical era may be of a long duration. We have many allies in this work and struggle. All of you see and describe our relations with the People’s Republic of China, India, the ASEAN countries, the Gulf states, Iran, Türkiye, the African Union, and the resuscitated Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. This one is getting a second wind after the elections in Brazil. There are many other countries and associations. In the post-Soviet space, these include the CIS, CSTO, and EAEU.
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🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s answers to media questions regarding statements issued following G7 meetings
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❓ Question: A document approved following the recent G7 meetings claims that unlike other nuclear powers (that is, Russia and China), the United States, the UK, and France display a responsible and transparent approach in the nuclear sphere, providing “data on their nuclear forces and the objective size of their nuclear arsenal.” What is your comment?
💬 Sergey Ryabkov: These statements are wide of the mark. They reflect the general anti-Russia and anti-China sentiment that became one of the main themes of the summit held by the so-called Group of Seven.
Russia is invariably responsible in nuclear affairs and displays all possible “transparency” within the limits determined by the considerations for political and military expediency. Over the past decade, Russia has markedly raised the level of transparency with regard to its doctrinal precepts in the nuclear sphere and the modernisation programmes embracing its nuclear deterrent. The Russian military regularly informs the public at home and the international community about the specific weapons systems guarding Russia’s sovereignty and ensuring its security, as well as about the essence and purpose of relevant exercises and drills.
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The data on US strategic offensive arms, which the US Department of State published not long ago, are delusive in their non-conformity with the New START counting rules that Washington stubbornly attempts to circumvent by using underhanded manipulation. As a result, they leave out considerable capabilities – more than 100 units of strategic offensive arms – which should fall within the purview of the treaty, whose fate US officials ostensibly hold so close to their heart.
As for data on the size of the UK and French arsenals, they are totally unverifiable and declarative. You can publish whatever you want.
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We note that the G7’s appeal for resuming the New START and for other steps in the nuclear sphere does not evince even the slightest willingness for NATO’s combined capabilities being taken into account in this context.
❓ Question: The G7 summit’s final communique says that the parties remain committed to the “universalisation, effective implementation, and strengthening of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.” How does this relate to the United States deploying its biological laboratories all over the world, including in the post-Soviet space?
💬 Sergey Ryabkov: The entire international community should focus on the uncontrolled and extremely dangerous military biological activities that the United States and its allies pursue outside their national territory. We regard these Western activities, including in the post-Soviet space, as a real threat to the national security of the Russian Federation and other states, primarily those where these activities are taking place.
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A clear example of these US activities is the recently revealed facts of the Pentagon and its affiliated entities, including the private companies, implementing military biological programmes in Ukraine in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). An analysis of the programmes that were being carried out at Ukrainian laboratories allows us to conclude that they were developing components of biological weapons in the direct vicinity of Russian territory.
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The best confirmation of the Western countries’ commitment to consolidating the BWC regime would be some real steps to cut short the world-wide destructive military biological activity in combination with creating specific tools for BWC implementation, rather than the inflated and empty statements adopted in the wake of the G7 summit.
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❓ Question: A document approved following the recent G7 meetings claims that unlike other nuclear powers (that is, Russia and China), the United States, the UK, and France display a responsible and transparent approach in the nuclear sphere, providing “data on their nuclear forces and the objective size of their nuclear arsenal.” What is your comment?
💬 Sergey Ryabkov: These statements are wide of the mark. They reflect the general anti-Russia and anti-China sentiment that became one of the main themes of the summit held by the so-called Group of Seven.
Russia is invariably responsible in nuclear affairs and displays all possible “transparency” within the limits determined by the considerations for political and military expediency. Over the past decade, Russia has markedly raised the level of transparency with regard to its doctrinal precepts in the nuclear sphere and the modernisation programmes embracing its nuclear deterrent. The Russian military regularly informs the public at home and the international community about the specific weapons systems guarding Russia’s sovereignty and ensuring its security, as well as about the essence and purpose of relevant exercises and drills.
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The data on US strategic offensive arms, which the US Department of State published not long ago, are delusive in their non-conformity with the New START counting rules that Washington stubbornly attempts to circumvent by using underhanded manipulation. As a result, they leave out considerable capabilities – more than 100 units of strategic offensive arms – which should fall within the purview of the treaty, whose fate US officials ostensibly hold so close to their heart.
As for data on the size of the UK and French arsenals, they are totally unverifiable and declarative. You can publish whatever you want.
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We note that the G7’s appeal for resuming the New START and for other steps in the nuclear sphere does not evince even the slightest willingness for NATO’s combined capabilities being taken into account in this context.
❓ Question: The G7 summit’s final communique says that the parties remain committed to the “universalisation, effective implementation, and strengthening of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.” How does this relate to the United States deploying its biological laboratories all over the world, including in the post-Soviet space?
💬 Sergey Ryabkov: The entire international community should focus on the uncontrolled and extremely dangerous military biological activities that the United States and its allies pursue outside their national territory. We regard these Western activities, including in the post-Soviet space, as a real threat to the national security of the Russian Federation and other states, primarily those where these activities are taking place.
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A clear example of these US activities is the recently revealed facts of the Pentagon and its affiliated entities, including the private companies, implementing military biological programmes in Ukraine in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). An analysis of the programmes that were being carried out at Ukrainian laboratories allows us to conclude that they were developing components of biological weapons in the direct vicinity of Russian territory.
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The best confirmation of the Western countries’ commitment to consolidating the BWC regime would be some real steps to cut short the world-wide destructive military biological activity in combination with creating specific tools for BWC implementation, rather than the inflated and empty statements adopted in the wake of the G7 summit.
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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🌍 On May 25, the world celebrates #AfricaDay.
On this day in 1963, exactly 60 years ago, African governments convened in Addis Ababa for the first conference which laid the foundation for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity.
🇷🇺 Russia and Africa are united by traditional bonds of friendship, and it is symbolic that this anniversary year we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit.
🤝 The Soviet Union supported the African countries in their fight for independence and played an important role in the development of the young countries on the continent. Soviet military advisers worked in Africa and military specialists have served in Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and other African countries at various times.
🤝 Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted, which declared the need to end colonialism and any other form of discrimination.
❌ The Western powers are not just continuing to exploit the African nations, pumping out resources while counting corporate profits, but they have also been cleaning up their own ugly past.
The falsification of history is also about the cynical unpublished campaign to hush up the horrors of the colonial era. The West is trying to pretend that the suffering that many generations of Africans have gone through, as well as racism, the slave trade, murders and punitive operations, had nothing to do with them
A quickly made-up story about “events” aimed to highlight white people of the West’s concern for people of colour has been planted, but in fact, this is nothing more than a flashmob with no deep realisation of the harm. On the contrary, the ideology of a “beautiful garden” and a “wild jungle” is being promoted.
There is the pretence that everything that took place back then, in the colonial era, seemed to have happened and at the same time not to have happened at all.
☝️ Yet Africa remembers.
#AfricaDay
On this day in 1963, exactly 60 years ago, African governments convened in Addis Ababa for the first conference which laid the foundation for the creation of the Organisation of African Unity.
🇷🇺 Russia and Africa are united by traditional bonds of friendship, and it is symbolic that this anniversary year we are holding the second #RussiaAfrica Summit.
🤝 The Soviet Union supported the African countries in their fight for independence and played an important role in the development of the young countries on the continent. Soviet military advisers worked in Africa and military specialists have served in Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and other African countries at various times.
🤝 Under pressure from the Soviet Union, the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples was adopted, which declared the need to end colonialism and any other form of discrimination.
❌ The Western powers are not just continuing to exploit the African nations, pumping out resources while counting corporate profits, but they have also been cleaning up their own ugly past.
The falsification of history is also about the cynical unpublished campaign to hush up the horrors of the colonial era. The West is trying to pretend that the suffering that many generations of Africans have gone through, as well as racism, the slave trade, murders and punitive operations, had nothing to do with them
A quickly made-up story about “events” aimed to highlight white people of the West’s concern for people of colour has been planted, but in fact, this is nothing more than a flashmob with no deep realisation of the harm. On the contrary, the ideology of a “beautiful garden” and a “wild jungle” is being promoted.
There is the pretence that everything that took place back then, in the colonial era, seemed to have happened and at the same time not to have happened at all.
☝️ Yet Africa remembers.
#AfricaDay
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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum.
🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇲 Other notable attendees included President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Mikhail Myasnikovich. President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping sent a video address to plenary session participants & guests. The plenary discussion was moderated by Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs.
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Key talking points:
🌐 More & more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic & foreign policy, & adhering to their own development model.
📈 Trade in the EAEU is growing at a fairly steady pace, which is also an important indicator of the effectiveness of our joint work.
☝️ It is no secret that our Western opponents are trying to compel many of our partners to curtail beneficial cooperation with Russia through persuasion & with various promises & blackmail. In the process, they do not care one bit about the losses to be sustained by these states and their peoples.
🤝 We are pursuing a policy of reducing the share of unfriendly countries’ currencies in mutual transactions & planning to expand our activities with our partners around the world, including the EAEU, in order to complete the transition to national currencies.
🤝 The Eurasian Union is also working hard to expand friendly ties with other countries in the near abroad, Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa & Latin America, which represent the absolute majority of the world's population & drive global growth.
🤝 We highly appreciate the engagement of our EAEU partners in aligning cooperation. I am positive that our integration experience can be used to promote existing & create new interaction formats throughout Eurasia & the world at large.
🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇲 Other notable attendees included President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Mikhail Myasnikovich. President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping sent a video address to plenary session participants & guests. The plenary discussion was moderated by Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs.
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Key talking points:
🌐 More & more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic & foreign policy, & adhering to their own development model.
📈 Trade in the EAEU is growing at a fairly steady pace, which is also an important indicator of the effectiveness of our joint work.
☝️ It is no secret that our Western opponents are trying to compel many of our partners to curtail beneficial cooperation with Russia through persuasion & with various promises & blackmail. In the process, they do not care one bit about the losses to be sustained by these states and their peoples.
🤝 We are pursuing a policy of reducing the share of unfriendly countries’ currencies in mutual transactions & planning to expand our activities with our partners around the world, including the EAEU, in order to complete the transition to national currencies.
🤝 The Eurasian Union is also working hard to expand friendly ties with other countries in the near abroad, Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa & Latin America, which represent the absolute majority of the world's population & drive global growth.
🤝 We highly appreciate the engagement of our EAEU partners in aligning cooperation. I am positive that our integration experience can be used to promote existing & create new interaction formats throughout Eurasia & the world at large.
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⚡️ On presenting a diplomatic demarche to the ambassadors of Germany, Denmark and Sweden over the investigations into the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines
🗓 On May 25, the ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark and Sweden were summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where they were presented with a strong protest in connection with the lack of results in the national investigations by the authorities of these countries supposedly being conducted in the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022. Their inability to ensure transparency in their investigative actions was pointed out.
The Foreign Ministry has described the evasion of interaction by the authorities of the FRG, Denmark and Sweden with Russia in this matter, the lack of replies to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s October 6, 2022 letter to the heads of government of these countries on the need to undertake a comprehensive and open investigation with the involvement of representatives of the Russian authorities and Gazprom, and disregard for the relevant notices lodged by the Russian embassies, as unacceptable.
It was stated that the above countries were not interested in establishing the real circumstances of this destructive sabotage. On the contrary, it is clear from their actions that they have been dragging out the time needed to reach any conclusion in an attempt to conceal the evidence and the true perpetrators of this crime, which, as we believe, involves certain countries. Moreover, it was no accident that unlikely versions of the event were leaked to the media with the intent of obscuring the facts of this crime.
❗️ It was declared that Russia intended to persist in its effort to compel the authorities in the FRG, Denmark and Sweden to conduct an objective and comprehensive investigation into the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines with the mandatory inclusion of Russia.
🗓 On May 25, the ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark and Sweden were summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where they were presented with a strong protest in connection with the lack of results in the national investigations by the authorities of these countries supposedly being conducted in the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022. Their inability to ensure transparency in their investigative actions was pointed out.
The Foreign Ministry has described the evasion of interaction by the authorities of the FRG, Denmark and Sweden with Russia in this matter, the lack of replies to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin’s October 6, 2022 letter to the heads of government of these countries on the need to undertake a comprehensive and open investigation with the involvement of representatives of the Russian authorities and Gazprom, and disregard for the relevant notices lodged by the Russian embassies, as unacceptable.
It was stated that the above countries were not interested in establishing the real circumstances of this destructive sabotage. On the contrary, it is clear from their actions that they have been dragging out the time needed to reach any conclusion in an attempt to conceal the evidence and the true perpetrators of this crime, which, as we believe, involves certain countries. Moreover, it was no accident that unlikely versions of the event were leaked to the media with the intent of obscuring the facts of this crime.
❗️ It was declared that Russia intended to persist in its effort to compel the authorities in the FRG, Denmark and Sweden to conduct an objective and comprehensive investigation into the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines with the mandatory inclusion of Russia.
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⚡️ Meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council
Key talking points from the speech of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin:
💬 Cooperation continues to strengthen within the #EAEU, which is consistently asserting itself as one of the independent and self-sufficient centres of the emerging multipolar world.
🔹 Our continuing efforts to build integration dictate the need to strengthen, develop and modernise the supranational tools and institutions we have created, primarily the Economic Commission, which must be able to provide quick and proper responses to changes around the world and to make professional decisions aimed at protecting our common interests and promoting mutually beneficial integration.
☝️ The EAEU should expand relations with countries that are seeking equal and mutually beneficial partnership. I am talking about our partners in Asia, the Arab world, Africa, and Latin America. I mean cooperation with multilateral associations like the CIS, the SCO, BRICS and other associations.
🔹 It is important to continue to form free trade areas with interested countries and, among other things, to encourage them to jointly use the international transaction infrastructure available to the five member-countries in national currencies and the digital currencies of the central banks.
❗️ I am confident that by continuing to act as a team, we will certainly achieve new tangible results in promoting integration cooperation in the interests of our states and peoples.
Key talking points from the speech of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin:
💬 Cooperation continues to strengthen within the #EAEU, which is consistently asserting itself as one of the independent and self-sufficient centres of the emerging multipolar world.
🔹 Our continuing efforts to build integration dictate the need to strengthen, develop and modernise the supranational tools and institutions we have created, primarily the Economic Commission, which must be able to provide quick and proper responses to changes around the world and to make professional decisions aimed at protecting our common interests and promoting mutually beneficial integration.
☝️ The EAEU should expand relations with countries that are seeking equal and mutually beneficial partnership. I am talking about our partners in Asia, the Arab world, Africa, and Latin America. I mean cooperation with multilateral associations like the CIS, the SCO, BRICS and other associations.
🔹 It is important to continue to form free trade areas with interested countries and, among other things, to encourage them to jointly use the international transaction infrastructure available to the five member-countries in national currencies and the digital currencies of the central banks.
❗️ I am confident that by continuing to act as a team, we will certainly achieve new tangible results in promoting integration cooperation in the interests of our states and peoples.
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📰 For several months, the leading Western media have been carrying crazy headlines and putting forward numerous versions – one more fantastic than the next – in a bid to steer away attention from Seymour Hersh's investigation & those truly responsible for the terrorist acts on the Nord Stream & Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines.
This open secret is boggling journalists for a reason – using their language, it is “highly likely” that the goal is to divert public discussion & completely confuse public opinion.
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❓ More & more people are starting to ask inconvenient questions. To the dismay of the mainstream media. That is why the Irish Times & Britain’s The Times tried to help the German, Scandinavian & American media save face & further confuse the matter. In the last resort attempt, they trotted out a canard by blaming this terror act on Russia. And the evidence? Surely enough - “suspicious” manoeuvres by Russian ships. Everything follows the “highly likely” pattern these days.
Biased journalists immediately accused the Russian Navy of conducting intelligence operations.
This, in fact, represents the “arguments” that were used to come up with the adamant conclusion that it was Russia who “highly/most/somewhat likely” blew up... its own Nord Stream pipelines 🤷♂️
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❗️ The acts of sabotage on the Nord Stream & Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines have become a kind of a litmus test that sets the propagandists following the guidelines from real journalists. Those who come up with ways to blame Russia for everything & continue to stubbornly ignore the findings of the investigation conducted by Seymour Hersh & avoid uncomfortable questions to the governments & agencies from the US, Denmark, Germany & Sweden about the terrorist attack are, by a strange coincidence, the same “professionals” who holler about freedom of speech & pretend that Julian Assange does not exist. These people have nothing to do with real journalism.
This open secret is boggling journalists for a reason – using their language, it is “highly likely” that the goal is to divert public discussion & completely confuse public opinion.
Read in full
❓ More & more people are starting to ask inconvenient questions. To the dismay of the mainstream media. That is why the Irish Times & Britain’s The Times tried to help the German, Scandinavian & American media save face & further confuse the matter. In the last resort attempt, they trotted out a canard by blaming this terror act on Russia. And the evidence? Surely enough - “suspicious” manoeuvres by Russian ships. Everything follows the “highly likely” pattern these days.
Biased journalists immediately accused the Russian Navy of conducting intelligence operations.
This, in fact, represents the “arguments” that were used to come up with the adamant conclusion that it was Russia who “highly/most/somewhat likely” blew up... its own Nord Stream pipelines 🤷♂️
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❗️ The acts of sabotage on the Nord Stream & Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines have become a kind of a litmus test that sets the propagandists following the guidelines from real journalists. Those who come up with ways to blame Russia for everything & continue to stubbornly ignore the findings of the investigation conducted by Seymour Hersh & avoid uncomfortable questions to the governments & agencies from the US, Denmark, Germany & Sweden about the terrorist attack are, by a strange coincidence, the same “professionals” who holler about freedom of speech & pretend that Julian Assange does not exist. These people have nothing to do with real journalism.
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Forwarded from Мария Захарова
Американский сенатор от Южной Каролины Линдси Грэм с довольной ухмылкой на встрече с Зеленским: «Русские умирают. Мы ещё никогда не тратили деньги так удачно».
В ходе Нюрнбергского трибунала министр экономики фашисткой Германии Ялмар Шахт заявил о том, что спонсирование Третьего рейха шло также из-за рубежа и назвал две крупнейшие американские корпорации: «Форд» и «Дженерал моторс». С ним была заключена негласная сделка – свобода в обмен на молчание. Несмотря на протесты советских представителей, он вышел на свободу и прожил до 93 лет.
Напомню, что воплощение американской мечты, тот самый легендарный Генри Форд был кавалером Большого Креста Ордена Заслуг германского орла. Его заводы в Германии не просто производили до 70 тыс. грузовиков в год для нужд вермахта, но и использовали для этого труд заключённых, в том числе Освенцима.
А немецкая икона автоиндустрии «Опель» принадлежал... «Дженерал моторс». Исследователь Брэдфорд Снелл следующим образом описывает роль корпорации: ««Дженерал моторс» был гораздо важнее для нацистской военной машины, чем швейцарские банки. Швейцария была лишь хранилищем украденных денег. «Дженерал моторс» был неотъемлемой частью германский военных усилий. Третий рейх мог бы вторгнуться в Польшу и Россию (СССР) без помощи Швейцарии. Но они не смогли бы этого сделать без помощи «Дженерал моторс».
Компания «Кодак» на своём заводе в Германии изготавливала взрыватели для авиабомб, не гнушаясь применять даже труд военнопленных.
Завод «Кока-Кола» в Кёльне и до его национализации германским правительством исправно снабжал газировкой, в том числе немецких солдат. А знаменитая «Фанта» и вовсе была изобретена нацистами.
Нефтяной гигант «Стандарт Ойл» через свои дочерние компании помогал Гитлеру с нехваткой нефтепродуктов, участвовал в разработке синтетического каучука и синтетического топлива. А любимая айтишниками всего мира корпорация IBM производила для нацистов учётные и контрольные аппараты, в том числе для нефтедобычи. Среди прочего, оборудование этой фирмы помогало следить за расписанием поездов в лагеря смерти...
Ну и куда уж без банков: руку приложил и JPMorgan Chase & Co, а тогда «Национальный банк Чейз» (Chase National Bank), через который осуществлялись многомиллиардные транзакции, а Берлин имел возможность закупать доллары и осуществлять финансовые операции за океаном. «Чейз» сотрудничал с немецким банком «Альянс» даже в таком деле, как... страхование имущества и жизни охраны концлагерей Третьего Рейха.
Сенатору Грэму есть, с чем сравнивать. Одна из их инвестиций привела ко Второй Мировой войне и Холокосту.
Теперь миллиарды американских долларов вливаются в ненасытную глотку неонацистского киевского режима. В этой связи хотелось бы напомнить сенаторам и всем американским выгодополучателям, чем закончилась предыдущая авантюра.
В ходе Нюрнбергского трибунала министр экономики фашисткой Германии Ялмар Шахт заявил о том, что спонсирование Третьего рейха шло также из-за рубежа и назвал две крупнейшие американские корпорации: «Форд» и «Дженерал моторс». С ним была заключена негласная сделка – свобода в обмен на молчание. Несмотря на протесты советских представителей, он вышел на свободу и прожил до 93 лет.
Напомню, что воплощение американской мечты, тот самый легендарный Генри Форд был кавалером Большого Креста Ордена Заслуг германского орла. Его заводы в Германии не просто производили до 70 тыс. грузовиков в год для нужд вермахта, но и использовали для этого труд заключённых, в том числе Освенцима.
А немецкая икона автоиндустрии «Опель» принадлежал... «Дженерал моторс». Исследователь Брэдфорд Снелл следующим образом описывает роль корпорации: ««Дженерал моторс» был гораздо важнее для нацистской военной машины, чем швейцарские банки. Швейцария была лишь хранилищем украденных денег. «Дженерал моторс» был неотъемлемой частью германский военных усилий. Третий рейх мог бы вторгнуться в Польшу и Россию (СССР) без помощи Швейцарии. Но они не смогли бы этого сделать без помощи «Дженерал моторс».
Компания «Кодак» на своём заводе в Германии изготавливала взрыватели для авиабомб, не гнушаясь применять даже труд военнопленных.
Завод «Кока-Кола» в Кёльне и до его национализации германским правительством исправно снабжал газировкой, в том числе немецких солдат. А знаменитая «Фанта» и вовсе была изобретена нацистами.
Нефтяной гигант «Стандарт Ойл» через свои дочерние компании помогал Гитлеру с нехваткой нефтепродуктов, участвовал в разработке синтетического каучука и синтетического топлива. А любимая айтишниками всего мира корпорация IBM производила для нацистов учётные и контрольные аппараты, в том числе для нефтедобычи. Среди прочего, оборудование этой фирмы помогало следить за расписанием поездов в лагеря смерти...
Ну и куда уж без банков: руку приложил и JPMorgan Chase & Co, а тогда «Национальный банк Чейз» (Chase National Bank), через который осуществлялись многомиллиардные транзакции, а Берлин имел возможность закупать доллары и осуществлять финансовые операции за океаном. «Чейз» сотрудничал с немецким банком «Альянс» даже в таком деле, как... страхование имущества и жизни охраны концлагерей Третьего Рейха.
Сенатору Грэму есть, с чем сравнивать. Одна из их инвестиций привела ко Второй Мировой войне и Холокосту.
Теперь миллиарды американских долларов вливаются в ненасытную глотку неонацистского киевского режима. В этой связи хотелось бы напомнить сенаторам и всем американским выгодополучателям, чем закончилась предыдущая авантюра.
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Forwarded from Мария Захарова
Вы думаете, что американский сенатор Грэм одинок в своей нацистской риторике? Что он уродское исключение? Что американская система такое чудище не может породить?
Ошибаетесь. Напомню, в разговоре с пранкерами Вованом и Лексусом Джордж Буш (младший из династии американских президентов) ровно так и сказал, полагая, что общается с киевским режимом: «Ваша задача - убить как можно больше русских».
После того, как мы об этом заявили на брифинге, американская пропаганда начала отыгрывать назад, делая упор на том, что Буш не во власти. Ещё как во власти и Буш, и Грэм. Так они ещё и не всё говорят, что прописано в американских доктринальных документах.
Напоминаю, как это было:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3973
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2768
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3872
Ошибаетесь. Напомню, в разговоре с пранкерами Вованом и Лексусом Джордж Буш (младший из династии американских президентов) ровно так и сказал, полагая, что общается с киевским режимом: «Ваша задача - убить как можно больше русских».
После того, как мы об этом заявили на брифинге, американская пропаганда начала отыгрывать назад, делая упор на том, что Буш не во власти. Ещё как во власти и Буш, и Грэм. Так они ещё и не всё говорят, что прописано в американских доктринальных документах.
Напоминаю, как это было:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3973
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2768
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3872
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💬 Из США практически каждую неделю поступают сообщения о новых траншах военной помощи Киеву. Мы помним заявления американского политистеблишмента о том, что «основная цель Украины – убить как можно больше русских». Эту идею транслируют украинские послы по…
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Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
⚡️ Statement by the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Eurasian Economic Union Day
💬 A few days before Eurasian Economic Union Day on May 29, established by decision of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the Federation Council declares that Eurasian integration has proven its effectiveness and viability.
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has successfully passed the stage of formation and achieved significant results in integration work. Mutual trade is growing fast among the EAEU member states, as is economic cooperation with third countries.
The senators of the Russian Federation note that the EAEU members’ interest in deepening cooperation is prompted not only by the commonality of their values, traditions and cultures, but also by their sincere conviction that the further development of Eurasian integration fully meets their national interests.
Manifestations of crisis continue to grow in international relations today. The collective West is persistently trying to impose on the international community a neo-colonial world model – a rules-based international order. The goal of the United States and its satellites is to make sovereign states accept Washington’s unilateral political, financial and economic diktat.
Under these conditions, the EAEU is becoming a telling example of cooperation based on respect for the sovereign equality of all states and strict observance of the universally recognised principles and norms of international law enshrined in the United Nations Charter.
During the Russian chairmanship of the EAEU bodies, the Federation Council intends to specifically focus on facilitating the implementation of the ambitious goals of the EAEU. Among them are ensuring the technological independence of key economic sectors, food security, digital transformation, common energy and financial markets, transport infrastructure development, building up scientific and youth exchanges, and encouraging investment.
The senators of the Russian Federation wish all the best to the citizens of the EAEU member states on Eurasian Economic Union Day and call on the parliamentarians in the EAEU member states to consolidate efforts to provide legislative support for Eurasian integration.
The Federation Council proposes that the parliaments of non-EAEU states promote the expansion of trade and economic ties with the Eurasian Economic Union and expresses confidence that this will pave the way for the development of constructive interstate relations.
💬 A few days before Eurasian Economic Union Day on May 29, established by decision of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the Federation Council declares that Eurasian integration has proven its effectiveness and viability.
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has successfully passed the stage of formation and achieved significant results in integration work. Mutual trade is growing fast among the EAEU member states, as is economic cooperation with third countries.
The senators of the Russian Federation note that the EAEU members’ interest in deepening cooperation is prompted not only by the commonality of their values, traditions and cultures, but also by their sincere conviction that the further development of Eurasian integration fully meets their national interests.
Manifestations of crisis continue to grow in international relations today. The collective West is persistently trying to impose on the international community a neo-colonial world model – a rules-based international order. The goal of the United States and its satellites is to make sovereign states accept Washington’s unilateral political, financial and economic diktat.
Under these conditions, the EAEU is becoming a telling example of cooperation based on respect for the sovereign equality of all states and strict observance of the universally recognised principles and norms of international law enshrined in the United Nations Charter.
During the Russian chairmanship of the EAEU bodies, the Federation Council intends to specifically focus on facilitating the implementation of the ambitious goals of the EAEU. Among them are ensuring the technological independence of key economic sectors, food security, digital transformation, common energy and financial markets, transport infrastructure development, building up scientific and youth exchanges, and encouraging investment.
The senators of the Russian Federation wish all the best to the citizens of the EAEU member states on Eurasian Economic Union Day and call on the parliamentarians in the EAEU member states to consolidate efforts to provide legislative support for Eurasian integration.
The Federation Council proposes that the parliaments of non-EAEU states promote the expansion of trade and economic ties with the Eurasian Economic Union and expresses confidence that this will pave the way for the development of constructive interstate relations.
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