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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 40th meeting of the Council of the Heads of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Moscow, May 16, 2023)
Key talking points:
☝️ Our colleagues in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have heeded our recommendations and launched system-wide efforts to promote relations with our relevant partners.
• The level of collaboration with the CIS states, China, India, Iran, Türkiye, and Arab countries has risen significantly in the past period.
• Today’s meeting is dedicated to interaction with the Central Asian states. Our relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are those of alliance and strategic partnership and are based on equality, mutual respect, friendship, and neighbourliness. They are characterised by an intense political dialogue.
🤝 The political dialogue helps to promote active investment cooperation and address issues ensuring a stable growth of trade. Scientific, educational and humanitarian ties are making good headway.
• Along with bilateral cooperation, there is an increasingly active six-sided cooperation (CA5+Russia) with each of the Central Asian countries.
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Key talking points:
☝️ Our colleagues in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have heeded our recommendations and launched system-wide efforts to promote relations with our relevant partners.
• The level of collaboration with the CIS states, China, India, Iran, Türkiye, and Arab countries has risen significantly in the past period.
• Today’s meeting is dedicated to interaction with the Central Asian states. Our relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are those of alliance and strategic partnership and are based on equality, mutual respect, friendship, and neighbourliness. They are characterised by an intense political dialogue.
🤝 The political dialogue helps to promote active investment cooperation and address issues ensuring a stable growth of trade. Scientific, educational and humanitarian ties are making good headway.
• Along with bilateral cooperation, there is an increasingly active six-sided cooperation (CA5+Russia) with each of the Central Asian countries.
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🗓 On May 15, Russia together with Belarus, North Korea, Nicaragua and Syria as co-sponsors, submitted the Concept of the UN Convention on Ensuring International Information Security (IIS) as an official document of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly.
The ongoing international discussion on the IIS indicates growing support among the UN Member States of adopting a universal legally binding instrument that would ensure stability and security in the global information space.
☝️Our initiative is a prototype of such an international treaty. The Concept of the Convention is based on the principles of sovereign equality of States and non-interference in their internal affairs. It is aimed at prevention and settlement of conflicts, establishment of interstate cooperation, including on building capacities of the developing countries in the field of information security.
🇷🇺 Russia and the co-sponsors are ready to further discuss the language of the document and take into account possible suggestions and comments.
We call on our foreign partners to join the initiative in the interest of building a fair and comprehensive system of international information security.
The ongoing international discussion on the IIS indicates growing support among the UN Member States of adopting a universal legally binding instrument that would ensure stability and security in the global information space.
☝️Our initiative is a prototype of such an international treaty. The Concept of the Convention is based on the principles of sovereign equality of States and non-interference in their internal affairs. It is aimed at prevention and settlement of conflicts, establishment of interstate cooperation, including on building capacities of the developing countries in the field of information security.
🇷🇺 Russia and the co-sponsors are ready to further discuss the language of the document and take into account possible suggestions and comments.
We call on our foreign partners to join the initiative in the interest of building a fair and comprehensive system of international information security.
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🇷🇺🇰🇿📞 President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
During the telephone conversation, Vladimir Putin warmly congratulated President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on his 70th birthday.
The two Leaders reaffirmed their mutual commitment to further strengthening Russian-Kazakhstani allied relations and expanding mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas.
✉️ Earlier, the President of Russia sent a message of greetings to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
During the telephone conversation, Vladimir Putin warmly congratulated President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on his 70th birthday.
The two Leaders reaffirmed their mutual commitment to further strengthening Russian-Kazakhstani allied relations and expanding mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas.
✉️ Earlier, the President of Russia sent a message of greetings to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at talks with Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergey Aleinik (Moscow, May 17, 2023)
💬 We are glad to welcome you to Moscow.
This is your first visit to the Russian Federation after taking the office of Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus.
Today we have a busy agenda. Our countries are working on increasing the defence capacity on the western borders of the Union State, upholding justice in international relations, and asserting the inadmissibility of double standards in approaches to ensuring security in Europe.
☝️ The security architecture on the European continent is being actively destroyed by our Western neighbours. All the more important is coordination on the foreign policy front, which we carry out on the basis of two-year plans.
We will discuss the roles and tasks our ministries are facing in supporting the union state building, the implementation of the 28 union programmes, the provision of foreign political stewardship of the trade and economic cooperation, our actions at the #UN, #OSCE, #CIS, #CSTO, and #EAEU, as well as the strengthening of the Union State as the core of integration processes in the post-Soviet space.
💬 We are glad to welcome you to Moscow.
This is your first visit to the Russian Federation after taking the office of Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus.
Today we have a busy agenda. Our countries are working on increasing the defence capacity on the western borders of the Union State, upholding justice in international relations, and asserting the inadmissibility of double standards in approaches to ensuring security in Europe.
☝️ The security architecture on the European continent is being actively destroyed by our Western neighbours. All the more important is coordination on the foreign policy front, which we carry out on the basis of two-year plans.
We will discuss the roles and tasks our ministries are facing in supporting the union state building, the implementation of the 28 union programmes, the provision of foreign political stewardship of the trade and economic cooperation, our actions at the #UN, #OSCE, #CIS, #CSTO, and #EAEU, as well as the strengthening of the Union State as the core of integration processes in the post-Soviet space.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Tsargrad TV (Moscow, May 17, 2023)
Key talking points:
🔹 We will no longer rely on the West, as a partner that can be negotiated with to any extent. We will work with the rest of the world that is ready for this.
🔹The West’s share in the economy of Central Asia and the South Caucasus is growing. The West methodically and cynically demands that they refrain from taking steps contrary to its interests, promising them everything under the sun. Although in reality it only means interference in internal affairs.
🔹 The #CIS retains its important economic cooperation contacts because the CIS has a free trade zone. It is also contributing to the efforts to counter current challenges and threats (terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking) and efforts in the humanitarian area as well. The CIS has announced 2023 the Year of the Russian Language as the Language of Interethnic Communication.
🔹 Since 2001, we have been working to strengthen relations, primarily with China, India and #ASEAN nations. It is said now that Russia has turned away from the West. We haven’t, or rather the West has turned away from us, betraying its own interests.
🔹The West has made its choice. They insist that Russia must suffer “a strategic defeat,” must give up Crimea, betray the Russian people in other parts of former Ukraine. They are referring to Russians as “non-humans,” whose physical elimination is stated as a goal of the current Kiev regime.
🔹 This [Kiev] regime is killing Russians, Russian culture and the Russian world in any of its manifestations, physically exterminating the Russian people who were its citizens.
🔹 When the Moscow Patriarchate proclaimed the autonomy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, this did not change the Kiev regime’s aggressive policy of eradicating the genuine, canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine and did not stop it from cultivating “the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”
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Key talking points:
🔹 We will no longer rely on the West, as a partner that can be negotiated with to any extent. We will work with the rest of the world that is ready for this.
🔹The West’s share in the economy of Central Asia and the South Caucasus is growing. The West methodically and cynically demands that they refrain from taking steps contrary to its interests, promising them everything under the sun. Although in reality it only means interference in internal affairs.
🔹 The #CIS retains its important economic cooperation contacts because the CIS has a free trade zone. It is also contributing to the efforts to counter current challenges and threats (terrorism, extremism, drug trafficking) and efforts in the humanitarian area as well. The CIS has announced 2023 the Year of the Russian Language as the Language of Interethnic Communication.
🔹 Since 2001, we have been working to strengthen relations, primarily with China, India and #ASEAN nations. It is said now that Russia has turned away from the West. We haven’t, or rather the West has turned away from us, betraying its own interests.
🔹The West has made its choice. They insist that Russia must suffer “a strategic defeat,” must give up Crimea, betray the Russian people in other parts of former Ukraine. They are referring to Russians as “non-humans,” whose physical elimination is stated as a goal of the current Kiev regime.
🔹 This [Kiev] regime is killing Russians, Russian culture and the Russian world in any of its manifestations, physically exterminating the Russian people who were its citizens.
🔹 When the Moscow Patriarchate proclaimed the autonomy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, this did not change the Kiev regime’s aggressive policy of eradicating the genuine, canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine and did not stop it from cultivating “the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”
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❗️ According to reliable and confirmed information, on 16 May, Kinnzhal hypersonic missile system hit and completely destroyed a multifunctional radar station as well as five launchers of U.S.-manufactured Patriot surface-to-air missile system in Kiev.
🔹 @mod_russia_en
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during a joint news conference with Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergey Aleinik following talks in Moscow
💬 <...> Our commitment to coordinate our foreign policies is one of the main pillars of the Union State’s development. This is increasingly emerging as a critical element when it comes to ensuring the national interests of our countries in today’s geopolitical environment. We agreed to keep supporting each other as allies and strategic partners in the interests of our countries, our people and the Union State.
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We exchanged views on the implementation of the Supreme Council’s resolution to draft a Security Concept for the Union State. The Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus will proactively support this effort, while the secretariats of our respective security councils oversee this process.
Answers to media questions
🔹 I share these considerations and our determination to develop integration-related processes in order to make them independent from the illegitimate unilateral actions of the US-led collective West.
🔹 Equal and indivisible security was declared in the OSCE. It was expressly stated that no single country and no single organisation in the Euro-Atlantic space would strengthen its security at the expense of the security of others or claim dominance in this geographical region. All of that was torn to pieces by our Western colleagues when they set a course for unapologetic NATO expansion.
🔹 We hear wailing in Washington, Brussels and London that “Russia has no interest in peace.” I’m tired of commenting on this. They have said that they would only accept what suits Zelensky. It’s a case of the tail wagging the dog, as has happened in American history before.
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💬 <...> Our commitment to coordinate our foreign policies is one of the main pillars of the Union State’s development. This is increasingly emerging as a critical element when it comes to ensuring the national interests of our countries in today’s geopolitical environment. We agreed to keep supporting each other as allies and strategic partners in the interests of our countries, our people and the Union State.
<...>
We exchanged views on the implementation of the Supreme Council’s resolution to draft a Security Concept for the Union State. The Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus will proactively support this effort, while the secretariats of our respective security councils oversee this process.
Answers to media questions
🔹 I share these considerations and our determination to develop integration-related processes in order to make them independent from the illegitimate unilateral actions of the US-led collective West.
🔹 Equal and indivisible security was declared in the OSCE. It was expressly stated that no single country and no single organisation in the Euro-Atlantic space would strengthen its security at the expense of the security of others or claim dominance in this geographical region. All of that was torn to pieces by our Western colleagues when they set a course for unapologetic NATO expansion.
🔹 We hear wailing in Washington, Brussels and London that “Russia has no interest in peace.” I’m tired of commenting on this. They have said that they would only accept what suits Zelensky. It’s a case of the tail wagging the dog, as has happened in American history before.
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🇷🇺🇺🇬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at the talks with Foreign Minister of Uganda Jeje Odongo (Moscow, May 18, 2023)
💬 I am delighted to welcome you to Moscow.
I have fond memories of my visit to the hospitable Republic of Uganda back in July 2022 and our fruitful talks with President Yoweri Museveni.
🤝 We consider the development of bilateral partnership, which stretches back several decades, to be a priority. In 2022, we marked the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries.
We hope that President Yoweri Museveni will attend the second Russia-Africa Summit, which will be held in St Petersburg in late July, like he did the first summit. In autumn 2019, the President of Uganda visited Sochi, where he held talks with President Vladimir Putin.
I believe that today we have a great opportunity to discuss all areas of our cooperation ahead of this event, both as part of bilateral cooperation and at the global stage, including regional processes underway on the African continent.
#RussiaUganda #RussiaAfrica
💬 I am delighted to welcome you to Moscow.
I have fond memories of my visit to the hospitable Republic of Uganda back in July 2022 and our fruitful talks with President Yoweri Museveni.
🤝 We consider the development of bilateral partnership, which stretches back several decades, to be a priority. In 2022, we marked the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries.
We hope that President Yoweri Museveni will attend the second Russia-Africa Summit, which will be held in St Petersburg in late July, like he did the first summit. In autumn 2019, the President of Uganda visited Sochi, where he held talks with President Vladimir Putin.
I believe that today we have a great opportunity to discuss all areas of our cooperation ahead of this event, both as part of bilateral cooperation and at the global stage, including regional processes underway on the African continent.
#RussiaUganda #RussiaAfrica
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❗️ О продлении «черноморской инициативы»
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• В связи с истечением 18 мая 60-дневного срока продления «черноморской инициативы» по вывозу украинского продовольствия и в ответ на обращения, прежде всего турецких партнёров как стороны договоренности, подтвердили её продление ещё на два месяца, до 17 июля включительно, без каких-либо изменений.
• Наши принципиальные оценки реализации взаимоувязанных Стамбульских соглашений остаются прежними – до сих пор выполняется только «черноморская инициатива» за исключением экспорта аммиака.
• Конкретный прогресс по Меморандуму Россия-ООН отсутствует.
• Сохраняются и явные проблемы с заявленной гуманитарной составляющей «сделки» – украинское зерно вывозится по морскому коридору преимущественно в государства с высоким уровнем доходов и выше среднего, в том числе на «сытые» европейские рынки.
• Нуждающиеся страны получают абсолютный мизер – 722 000 тонн (или 2,5%) от общего числа в 30 млн тонн, вывезенных из украинских портов за 9 месяцев.
• Поставки российской продукции, даже безвозмездная передача удобрений беднейшим странам, продолжают сталкиваться с блокирующим влиянием незаконных односторонних санкций.
• Нет подвижек и по возобновлению поставок аммиака, прописанных в обоих Стамбульских документах.
• Вынуждены напомнить и повторить пять «системных» задач, которые должны быть решены в рамках реализации Меморандума Россия-ООН и прогресс по которым до сих пор отсутствует:
– переподключение «Россельхозбанка» к SWIFT;
– поставки запчастей;
– разблокирование транспортной логистики и страхования;
– реанимирование аммиакопровода «Тольятти-Одесса»
– «разморозка» активов российских компаний.
• Без выполнения этих требований ни о каком расширении «черноморской инициативы» речи в принципе не идет, а сама договоренность будет прекращена после 17 июля.
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• В связи с истечением 18 мая 60-дневного срока продления «черноморской инициативы» по вывозу украинского продовольствия и в ответ на обращения, прежде всего турецких партнёров как стороны договоренности, подтвердили её продление ещё на два месяца, до 17 июля включительно, без каких-либо изменений.
• Наши принципиальные оценки реализации взаимоувязанных Стамбульских соглашений остаются прежними – до сих пор выполняется только «черноморская инициатива» за исключением экспорта аммиака.
• Конкретный прогресс по Меморандуму Россия-ООН отсутствует.
• Сохраняются и явные проблемы с заявленной гуманитарной составляющей «сделки» – украинское зерно вывозится по морскому коридору преимущественно в государства с высоким уровнем доходов и выше среднего, в том числе на «сытые» европейские рынки.
• Нуждающиеся страны получают абсолютный мизер – 722 000 тонн (или 2,5%) от общего числа в 30 млн тонн, вывезенных из украинских портов за 9 месяцев.
• Поставки российской продукции, даже безвозмездная передача удобрений беднейшим странам, продолжают сталкиваться с блокирующим влиянием незаконных односторонних санкций.
• Нет подвижек и по возобновлению поставок аммиака, прописанных в обоих Стамбульских документах.
• Вынуждены напомнить и повторить пять «системных» задач, которые должны быть решены в рамках реализации Меморандума Россия-ООН и прогресс по которым до сих пор отсутствует:
– переподключение «Россельхозбанка» к SWIFT;
– поставки запчастей;
– разблокирование транспортной логистики и страхования;
– реанимирование аммиакопровода «Тольятти-Одесса»
– «разморозка» активов российских компаний.
• Без выполнения этих требований ни о каком расширении «черноморской инициативы» речи в принципе не идет, а сама договоренность будет прекращена после 17 июля.
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🌐 On May 18, 1899, the Hague hosted a first ever international peace and disarmament conference. The initiative and idea for the event was that of the then Russian Empire.
The meeting resulted in the signing of 3 conventions:
• Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
• Convention with respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land
• Convention for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of August 22, 1864.
However, Russia's idea on the true reduction of armaments and constraining military budgets failed to be enshrined in the form written guarantees. Issues of vital importance for the whole of Europe were reflected in the conference proceedings only in the form of declarations and “desiderata.” A mere 15 years later, #WWI would begin to re-carve the political map of Europe beyond recognition.
❗️And yet, the conference was not held in vain. It became an important step towards containing a global arms race and laid down the foundation, formed the bedrock of international law.
The meeting resulted in the signing of 3 conventions:
• Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
• Convention with respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land
• Convention for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention of August 22, 1864.
However, Russia's idea on the true reduction of armaments and constraining military budgets failed to be enshrined in the form written guarantees. Issues of vital importance for the whole of Europe were reflected in the conference proceedings only in the form of declarations and “desiderata.” A mere 15 years later, #WWI would begin to re-carve the political map of Europe beyond recognition.
❗️And yet, the conference was not held in vain. It became an important step towards containing a global arms race and laid down the foundation, formed the bedrock of international law.
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permament Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
🎙Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on deliveries of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine and their consequences (18 May 2023)
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💬 Western states insist that they do not take part in the conflict, but rather “help Ukraine defend itself”. But in reality, it is the exact opposite. The West is fighting a proxy-war on Russia in Ukraine.
<...>
Deliveries of ever more powerful weapons systems to Kiev, combined with data sharing and the training of Ukrainian soldiers on their territories make these states not only parties to the armed conflict with Russia under the 1907 Hague Conventions on the rights and obligations of neutral powers in naval and land warfare, but also accomplices to the war crimes of the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions.
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❗️ The goals of the collective West are obvious to all, Western politicians do not conceal them. And this is not the principles of morality and highest humanistic values, far from that. By using Ukraine as a testing site, they want to drag out this conflict, “until the last Ukrainian”, hoping to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia. This is based on an obvious desire to impose their will and their so-called rules on everyone.
<...>
Attacks of the Kiev regime against civilian infrastructure and peaceful population of the Donbas happen daily.
<...>
☝️ The West knew exactly who they were bringing to power after the coup d'état in 2014 and who they had carefully nurtured before that in the interests of transforming Ukraine into an "anti-Russia”. <...> Western countries not only failed to prevent it, but as their leaders admit today, they sabotaged the implementation of the Minsk Agreements in order to keep using the Kiev authorities in their own interests.
🎙Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on deliveries of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine and their consequences (18 May 2023)
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💬 Western states insist that they do not take part in the conflict, but rather “help Ukraine defend itself”. But in reality, it is the exact opposite. The West is fighting a proxy-war on Russia in Ukraine.
<...>
Deliveries of ever more powerful weapons systems to Kiev, combined with data sharing and the training of Ukrainian soldiers on their territories make these states not only parties to the armed conflict with Russia under the 1907 Hague Conventions on the rights and obligations of neutral powers in naval and land warfare, but also accomplices to the war crimes of the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions.
<...>
❗️ The goals of the collective West are obvious to all, Western politicians do not conceal them. And this is not the principles of morality and highest humanistic values, far from that. By using Ukraine as a testing site, they want to drag out this conflict, “until the last Ukrainian”, hoping to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia. This is based on an obvious desire to impose their will and their so-called rules on everyone.
<...>
Attacks of the Kiev regime against civilian infrastructure and peaceful population of the Donbas happen daily.
<...>
☝️ The West knew exactly who they were bringing to power after the coup d'état in 2014 and who they had carefully nurtured before that in the interests of transforming Ukraine into an "anti-Russia”. <...> Western countries not only failed to prevent it, but as their leaders admit today, they sabotaged the implementation of the Minsk Agreements in order to keep using the Kiev authorities in their own interests.
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❗️ On renewing the Black Sea Initiative
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• In connection with expiration of the 60-day deadline for renewing the Black Sea Initiative to export Ukrainian grain on May 18 and in response to requests primarily from our Turkish partners as a party to the agreement, we confirmed the renewal of the agreement for another two months through July 17 without any changes.
• Our principled assessments of the implementation of the interrelated Istanbul agreements have remain unchanged, and so far only the Black Sea Initiative has been implemented with the exception of ammonia exports.
• There’s no measurable progress under the Russia-UN Memorandum.
• There are obvious issues with the declared humanitarian component of the deal where Ukrainian grain is being exported through this sea corridor mostly to high and above-average income countries, including “well-stocked” European markets.
• Countries that need it most have received hardly anything, 722,000 tonnes (or 2.5 percent) of the total amount of 30 million tonnes that had been moved from Ukrainian ports over nine months.
• The export of Russian products, even donations of fertilisers to the neediest countries, continues to be blocked by various aspects of the illegal and unilateral sanctions.
• There is no progress either in resuming ammonia shipments mentioned in both Istanbul documents.
• Given the circumstances, we are compelled to issue a reminder that there are five systemically important issues that must be resolved as part of implementing the Russia-UN Memorandum and which have seen no progress whatsoever so far:
- reconnecting Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT system
- supplying spare parts
- unblocking transport logistics and insurance
- reestablishing the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline
- unfreezing the Russian companies’ assets
• There can be no talk of expanding the Black Sea Initiative in principle without these requirements first being met. The agreement will be terminated after July 17.
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• In connection with expiration of the 60-day deadline for renewing the Black Sea Initiative to export Ukrainian grain on May 18 and in response to requests primarily from our Turkish partners as a party to the agreement, we confirmed the renewal of the agreement for another two months through July 17 without any changes.
• Our principled assessments of the implementation of the interrelated Istanbul agreements have remain unchanged, and so far only the Black Sea Initiative has been implemented with the exception of ammonia exports.
• There’s no measurable progress under the Russia-UN Memorandum.
• There are obvious issues with the declared humanitarian component of the deal where Ukrainian grain is being exported through this sea corridor mostly to high and above-average income countries, including “well-stocked” European markets.
• Countries that need it most have received hardly anything, 722,000 tonnes (or 2.5 percent) of the total amount of 30 million tonnes that had been moved from Ukrainian ports over nine months.
• The export of Russian products, even donations of fertilisers to the neediest countries, continues to be blocked by various aspects of the illegal and unilateral sanctions.
• There is no progress either in resuming ammonia shipments mentioned in both Istanbul documents.
• Given the circumstances, we are compelled to issue a reminder that there are five systemically important issues that must be resolved as part of implementing the Russia-UN Memorandum and which have seen no progress whatsoever so far:
- reconnecting Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT system
- supplying spare parts
- unblocking transport logistics and insurance
- reestablishing the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline
- unfreezing the Russian companies’ assets
• There can be no talk of expanding the Black Sea Initiative in principle without these requirements first being met. The agreement will be terminated after July 17.
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🇷🇺🇦🇿 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov
📍 Moscow, May 19, 2023
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We are delighted to meet with you again. Today we will hold a trilateral meeting with our Armenian colleague, which was scheduled to take place in late 2022.
Your visit to Moscow is a good opportunity to review our bilateral relations, especially in light of the upcoming contacts between the leaders of Russia and Azerbaijan.
I would like to reaffirm our resolve to implement the agreements reached by President Vladimir Putin and President Ilham Aliyev.
🤝 The North-South international transport corridor is an interesting recent project. Our leaders discussed it at the bilateral level and jointly with many other interested countries. We hope that further work on this project and in other areas will be coordinated at the next meeting.
I would like to note that the main events for the 100th birth anniversary of Heydar Aliyev, an outstanding statesman of the Soviet Union and Azerbaijan, began in Moscow on May 15, 2023. He was a unifying figure for our countries. We are grateful for your embassy’s close cooperation in organising these events.
📈 Our trade is growing, our investments are yielding results, and our companies have forward-looking plans. We will exchange views on all these issues. We will talk about the best way to prepare for a trilateral meeting with our Armenian colleague, which is scheduled for this afternoon.
#RussiaAzerbaijan
📍 Moscow, May 19, 2023
💬 Sergey Lavrov: We are delighted to meet with you again. Today we will hold a trilateral meeting with our Armenian colleague, which was scheduled to take place in late 2022.
Your visit to Moscow is a good opportunity to review our bilateral relations, especially in light of the upcoming contacts between the leaders of Russia and Azerbaijan.
I would like to reaffirm our resolve to implement the agreements reached by President Vladimir Putin and President Ilham Aliyev.
🤝 The North-South international transport corridor is an interesting recent project. Our leaders discussed it at the bilateral level and jointly with many other interested countries. We hope that further work on this project and in other areas will be coordinated at the next meeting.
I would like to note that the main events for the 100th birth anniversary of Heydar Aliyev, an outstanding statesman of the Soviet Union and Azerbaijan, began in Moscow on May 15, 2023. He was a unifying figure for our countries. We are grateful for your embassy’s close cooperation in organising these events.
📈 Our trade is growing, our investments are yielding results, and our companies have forward-looking plans. We will exchange views on all these issues. We will talk about the best way to prepare for a trilateral meeting with our Armenian colleague, which is scheduled for this afternoon.
#RussiaAzerbaijan
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🇷🇺🇺🇬 On May 18, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Uganda Abubaker Jeje Odongo, who is in Moscow on a working visit.
The meeting took place in a friendly and trust-based atmosphere traditional for Russian-Ugandan relations.
🤝 The Ministers discussed in detail key areas for the further development of bilateral cooperation in various fields, with a focus on the need to consistently build up mutually beneficial trade, economic and investment partnership, and develop joint projects in energy, transport infrastructure, mining, agriculture, science, education, medicine and digital technologies.
The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Uganda held a detailed exchange of views on the most significant topics on the global and regional agenda, including possible ways to help resolve conflicts in the “hot spots” on the African continent.
The Ugandan side was thoroughly updated on the progress of the special military operation. They agreed to strengthen interaction and coordination of steps taken by representatives of the two states at the UN and other international platforms.
✍️ Mr Lavrov and Mr Odongo signed a joint statement on no first placement of weapons in outer space.
They also reviewed issues related to preparations for the second Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg this July.
#RussiaUganda
The meeting took place in a friendly and trust-based atmosphere traditional for Russian-Ugandan relations.
🤝 The Ministers discussed in detail key areas for the further development of bilateral cooperation in various fields, with a focus on the need to consistently build up mutually beneficial trade, economic and investment partnership, and develop joint projects in energy, transport infrastructure, mining, agriculture, science, education, medicine and digital technologies.
The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Uganda held a detailed exchange of views on the most significant topics on the global and regional agenda, including possible ways to help resolve conflicts in the “hot spots” on the African continent.
The Ugandan side was thoroughly updated on the progress of the special military operation. They agreed to strengthen interaction and coordination of steps taken by representatives of the two states at the UN and other international platforms.
✍️ Mr Lavrov and Mr Odongo signed a joint statement on no first placement of weapons in outer space.
They also reviewed issues related to preparations for the second Russia-Africa Summit in St Petersburg this July.
#RussiaUganda
#Reminder for Global Affairs Canada
After the people of Crimea unanimously decided to reunite with 🇷🇺Russia, Crimean Tatars were among the top beneficiaries gaining full spectre of rights and freedoms, including language, religion and traditions-related - all that the Kiev regime had deprived them of for decades.
After the people of Crimea unanimously decided to reunite with 🇷🇺Russia, Crimean Tatars were among the top beneficiaries gaining full spectre of rights and freedoms, including language, religion and traditions-related - all that the Kiev regime had deprived them of for decades.
💬Russia's Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev:
The terrorist acts committed in Russia, including the murder of [journalist and philosopher] Daria Dugina, [journalist] Vladlen Tatarsky, the explosion of [writer and politician] Zakhar Prilepin's car, the explosion of the Crimean bridge, as well as the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and others, were planned and carried out under the coordination of US intelligence agencies.
The terrorist attacks carried out in Russia have been accompanied by an information campaign prepared in advance in Washington and London.
The terrorist acts committed in Russia, including the murder of [journalist and philosopher] Daria Dugina, [journalist] Vladlen Tatarsky, the explosion of [writer and politician] Zakhar Prilepin's car, the explosion of the Crimean bridge, as well as the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and others, were planned and carried out under the coordination of US intelligence agencies.
The terrorist attacks carried out in Russia have been accompanied by an information campaign prepared in advance in Washington and London.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov and Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan
📍 Moscow, May 19, 2023
💬 I'm delighted to have both of you here. Thank you for coming to Moscow.
You and I just had separate bilateral meetings. They were quite productive and useful both in terms of promoting bilateral interaction with each friendly country and us gearing up for another round of trilateral consultations to exchange views on ways to normalise relations between Baku and Yerevan, as well as the steps that the Russian Federation can take in this area in order to facilitate the implementation in full of the tripartite statements (1, 2, 3, 4 ) signed over the past three years by the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia and the Prime Minister of Armenia.
The last time we met was quite a while ago. Many new issues have come up. I hope today's meeting will be held in a constructive atmosphere, and your face-to-face dialogue will help break new ground.
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The tripartite statements signed by our leaders provide, in effect, a roadmap for arriving at sustainable solutions. With the situation surrounding the South Caucasus in mind, we believe there is no alternative to the agreements that our leaders have achieved.
In turn, we are fully interested in seeing peace and stability in this region.
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I expect other countries which, one way or another, have a stake in having a presence in this region to respect them.
❗️ On a separate note, concurrently with the efforts to stabilise the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and on the border, it is imperative to overcome humanitarian challenges, unblock economic transport links and agree on the language of a peace treaty, which you are working on.
📍 Moscow, May 19, 2023
💬 I'm delighted to have both of you here. Thank you for coming to Moscow.
You and I just had separate bilateral meetings. They were quite productive and useful both in terms of promoting bilateral interaction with each friendly country and us gearing up for another round of trilateral consultations to exchange views on ways to normalise relations between Baku and Yerevan, as well as the steps that the Russian Federation can take in this area in order to facilitate the implementation in full of the tripartite statements (1, 2, 3, 4 ) signed over the past three years by the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia and the Prime Minister of Armenia.
The last time we met was quite a while ago. Many new issues have come up. I hope today's meeting will be held in a constructive atmosphere, and your face-to-face dialogue will help break new ground.
<...>
The tripartite statements signed by our leaders provide, in effect, a roadmap for arriving at sustainable solutions. With the situation surrounding the South Caucasus in mind, we believe there is no alternative to the agreements that our leaders have achieved.
In turn, we are fully interested in seeing peace and stability in this region.
<...>
I expect other countries which, one way or another, have a stake in having a presence in this region to respect them.
❗️ On a separate note, concurrently with the efforts to stabilise the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and on the border, it is imperative to overcome humanitarian challenges, unblock economic transport links and agree on the language of a peace treaty, which you are working on.
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⚡️ Russia's Defence Ministry:
As a result of offensive actions by the Wagner assault units, supported by artillery and aviation of the Yug Group of Forces, the liberation of #Artyomovsk has been completed.
As a result of offensive actions by the Wagner assault units, supported by artillery and aviation of the Yug Group of Forces, the liberation of #Artyomovsk has been completed.
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🎙 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.
<...>
❗️ 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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🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸 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.
Read in full