🇷🇺 Russia's position at the #UNGA78 regarding food security 🌾

☝️ We note the need to uphold the central role of the Rome-based international organizations — the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development — in coordinating international efforts to strengthen global food security, eliminate hunger, improve nutrition, and ensure sustainable agriculture and rural development.

We are actively engaged in the follow-up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit to transform food systems. We assume that the transformation of international food systems should take into account national priorities and specific circumstances.

We oppose Western countries' attempts to hold Russia responsible for the global food crisis.

👉 In our contacts with friendly states and within various international fora, we endeavour to explain the real consequences and impact of the unilateral restrictions imposed against us.

❗️ We consider it crucial to prevent the politicization of international cooperation in the agrifood sector and the provision of humanitarian assistance, as well as the instrumentalization of the anti-famine agenda for commercial, economic and geopolitical purposes.

👉 We pay particular attention to ensuring stable and uninterrupted food supply chains and correcting distortions in the fertilizer market, primarily for the benefit of those in need in developing countries.

#UNGA78

❗️Комментарий Посольства в связи с отказом датских властей во въезде О.О.Салагаю

12-14 сентября в Копенгагене проходит региональное совещание Всемирной организации здравоохранения. Предполагалось участие в этом мероприятии статс-секретаря – заместителя министра здравоохранения О.О.Салагая. Однако в аэропорту Каструп ему было отказано во въезде в Данию. Датские власти беспардонно нарушили свои обязательства по обеспечению беспрепятственного доступа на мероприятия в Дании официальных представителей стран-участниц ВОЗ, в том числе России, учитывая, что Европейское региональное бюро ВОЗ расположено в Копенгагене.

☝️Посольство будет добиваться от датских властей объяснений и извинений по поводу произошедшего инцидента.

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❗️Ambassadens kommentar om at Oleg Salagai blev nægtet indrejse i Danmark

Et regionalt møde i Verdenssundhedsorganisationen (WHO) finder sted i København den 12.-14. september. Oleg Salagai, statssekretær og vice-sundhedsminister, skulle have deltaget i dette arrangement. Men han blev nægtet indrejse i Danmark i Kastrup lufthavn. De danske myndigheder overtrådte på det groveste deres forpligtelse til at sikre uhindret adgang til arrangementer i Danmark for officielle repræsentanter for WHO's medlemslande, herunder Rusland, eftersom WHO's regionalkontor for Europa ligger jo i København.

☝️Ambassaden vil kræve en forklaring og undskyldning fra de danske myndigheder.

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

Rights of the child

👶 We advocate strengthening international cooperation in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, taking into account the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the outcome document of the 27th special session of the UNGA ennoscriptd "A World Fit for Children", which proclaimed, in particular, the need for a family environment for the full and harmonious development of a child's personality.

❗️ We note the importance of the right of parents and/or legal guardians to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of his/her rights.

We pay close attention to the problem of children in armed conflict, including within the framework of the UNSC.

We strongly condemn the UN Secretary-General's biased decision to include the Russian Armed Forces in the list of parties responsible for violations against children in Ukraine in his relevant annual report for 2022.

We believe that the list of violators should include the Ukrainian armed forces, which have committed numerous crimes against minors.

📃 We support the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and look forward to further cooperation with her. We encourage the Special Representative to use only verified facts when it comes to the situation of children in Ukraine, avoiding politicization of the issue.

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

Development of important multilateral arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation arrangements

📃 Russia has initiated the development of important multilateral arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation arrangements, including on the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS) and on the suppression of acts of chemical and biological terrorism.

We believe that a constructive dialogue on these issues will provide an opportunity to engage in substantive work (including negotiations) at the UN. In promoting these initiatives, we rigorously adhere to the principles of equality and consensus ensuring a balance of interests.

At the 78th session of the General Assembly, we will traditionally submit to the First Committee draft resolutions concerning no first placement of weapons in outer space (NFP), transparency and confidence-building measures in space activities, and further practical steps on PAROS.

Globalization of the NFP initiative is a significant but only interim step towards the conclusion of an international treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space on the basis of the Chinese-Russian draft treaty on prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space and of the threat or use of force against outer space objects.

❗️Комментарий Посольства о выделении Данией средств для ВСУ

Выделение 5,8 млрд датских крон на закупки вооружений и боеприпасов для украинских вооруженных сил подтверждает репутацию Дании как крупнейшего инвестора в продолжение конфликта и кровопролития на Украине. Одержимость Дании иллюзиями о возможности военной победы над Россией лишь обрекает Украину и украинский народ на катастрофу.

🔸Запад, включая Данию, выбрал Украину в качестве площадки для противостояния с Россией и сохранения незыблемости западного мироустройства. Запад не волнует судьба Украины, граждан которой гонят на убой.

❗️Ambassadens kommentar om Danmarks pengedonation til Ukraine

Donation af 5,8 mia danske kroner til indkøb af våben og ammunition til de ukrainske væbnede styrker bekræfter Danmarks ry som den største investor i fortsættelsen af konflikten og blodsudgydelserne i Ukraine. Danmarks galskab af illusioner om muligheden for en militær sejr over Rusland er kun med til at dømme Ukraine og det ukrainske folk til katastrofe.

🔸Vesten, inklusive Danmark, har valgt Ukraine som en platform for at konfrontere Rusland og bevare den vestlige verdensordens ukrænkelighed. Vesten er ligeglad med Ukraines skæbne, mens dets borgere slagtes ihjel.

❗️ VESTENS DOBBELTMORAL I FORHOLD TIL TERRITORIAL INTEGRITET❗️

🔸Afsnit 3. Falklandsøerne

Der er er flere eksempler på, at Vesten ganske frit tolker selvbestemmelse og territorial integritet.

👆 Lær mere i videoen.

🔸 Se også afsnit 1. Kosovo
🔸 Se også afsnit 2. Mayotte

📖 The book by the Chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Democracy Maxim Grigoriev 'Ukraine's Crimes Against Humanity (2022-2023)' was published in English.

👉 Read in full: Ukraine's Crimes Against Humanity (2022-2023)

This book contains more than 600 testimonies of victims and eyewitnesses of Ukrainian war crimes and terrorist acts against civilians, committed between 2022 and 2023. The facts presented by them testify to the Kiev regime's commission of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including:

▪️ Shelling of residential areas and killing civilians;
▪️ Use of the population as human shields;
▪️ Torture of civilians and Russian soldiers;
▪️ Destruction of civilian objects;
▪️ Shelling of places where civilians are gathered.

The evidence of crimes presented in the book also contains direct speech and is classified according to the types of crimes under international humanitarian law.

Report and witness accounts were published in a form of a book testify to massive Ukrainian war crimes, which under international humanitarian law are classified as crimes against humanity and have no statute of limitations.

📹 Watch the film

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Vladivostok, September 13, 2023)

🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 International and interregional ties of Russia’s Far East
🔷 78th session of UNGA
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔷 Double standards of “Hague justice”
🔷 NATO Northern Coasts 2023 exercise
🔷 Situation in Niger
🔷 International Day of Democracy

And more...

📚 Read in full

#Ukraine

On September 10, a milestone event took place in the new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, namely, the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The first elections to local government under Russian law were held.

Kiev once again made desperate attempts to thwart people that it treats as outsiders from expressing their will. On the night of September 10 the Ukrainian forces used a drone to attack a polling station and completely destroyed it.

Were Ukrainian neo-Nazis the only ones to threaten the electoral cycle participants? Let me remind you that they were joined by the official capitals of Western countries that issued threats to election observers.

#InternationalDayOfDemocracy

The global majority countries are openly expressing their discontent with the fact that the collective West has usurped the right to determine “the only right” version of democracy and its values, according to the West, which has also claimed the prerogative to determine the standards of democracy in different states, communities and nations.

One example of this neocolonial approach is the Summit for Democracy devised in Washington. This strange platform is actually a get-together of the United States’ satellites where loyalty is the main criterion. The main goal of events such as the Summit for Democracy is to divide the international community into us and them while rallying supporters in the struggle for maintaining America’s geopolitical positions.

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

Sport

📃 We are convinced that sport is a unique tool for developing and strengthening social ties, building mutually respectful communication, and should bring closer together and unite peoples.

We are unwaveringly committed to the development of equal international sports cooperation that fully complies with the spirit and principles of Olympism, which precludes politicization and biased approach.

We find it unacceptable when certain Western countries use sport for their self-serving purposes. Persistent attempts to politicize sports cooperation, put pressure on the relevant multilateral organizations, including the International Olympic Committee, and cause division in the international Olympic movement are at odds with the Olympic goals and ideals.

🏆 We insist on holding fair and just competitions, and ensuring that all countries without exception have equal access to full participation in the Olympic and Paralympic movements.

Emergency workers and rescuers of Russia's #EMERCOM aka the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief (MChS) are busy doing all they can to assist on-site the people of Libya, stricken by natural disaster.

The EMERCOM personnel managed the following in Derna:

• deployed an airmobile hospital of the Tsentrospas State Central Airmobile Rescue Unit;
• arranged an autonomous field camp;
• more than 50 rescuers of the Leader centre, including dog handlers, operate in most affected areas.

Members of the MChS emergency response team will inspect the most precarious sites...

Also, the EMERCOM transport aircraft delivers humanitarian aid for all those afflicted by the calamity:

✅ survival packs;
✅ illumination systems;
✅ tents;
✅ blankets;
✅ portable power stations.

Every bit counts. Our hearts and minds are with the people of Libya.

#RussiaHelps

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

International cooperation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space

📃 As regards the international cooperation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space, we are convinced of the indisputable nature of the central and coordinating role of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).

We view as counterproductive the attempts to erode the COPUOS mandate by artificially transferring the issues of space debris and orbital traffic management from its agenda to parallel and purely disarmament-related UN platforms in line with the concept of the so‑called responsible behaviour in outer space.

❗️ We believe it is important to adopt, by consensus, the resolution ennoscriptd "International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space", which approves the report of the 66th session of COPUOS. We view as dangerous potential attempts to open the draft resolution traditionally adopted without a vote for revision, yielding to political considerations.

We continue to advocate for legal certainty in the matters of delimitation of outer space and airspace, including in the context of establishing the spatial limits to states' sovereignty over their territory and ensuring their national security, and for creating the environment enabling long-term sustainability of aviation activities and safety.

☝️ We call for creation of an effective orbital traffic management system on the basis of regulation and monitoring through a legally binding code of conduct to be developed by the international community.

⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on Russia's withdrawal from the Barents Euro-Arctic Council

💬 For 30 years now, the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (#BEAC) has been a valuable and effective platform for transborder cooperation which contributed to the maintenance of peace and stability in the North, the sustainable socioeconomic development of the North, environmental protection, the strengthening of cultural and humanitarian ties, and people-to-people contacts, including representatives from the indigenous peoples.

Through the fault of the Western members (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, the EU), the Council’s activities have been effectively paralysed since March 2022. The Finnish presidency failed to confirm the transfer of the BEAC presidency to Russia, scheduled for October 2023, in violation of the principle of rotation thus disrupting the necessary preparations.

Under these circumstances, we are compelled to announce the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the Barents Euro-Arctic Council. The relevant statement from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, dated September 18, 2023, has been sent to the foreign ministries of the member countries of the organisation, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, as well as to the International Barents Secretariat in Kirkenes, Norway.

☝️ We are convinced that the fleeting political situation, which our northern European neighbours are guided by, does not correspond to the long-term interests of the people of the Arctic region. The responsibility for breaking down the architecture of Barents cooperation rests entirely with our “partners.”

Russia will continue to pursue its national objectives in the North. We remain open to cooperation with anyone who is committed to constructive engagement, and is prepared for equal dialogue and mutually beneficial collaborative work.

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

Combating illicit arms diversion

📃 As regards the situation in Ukraine, we are deeply concerned that the Western countries undermine global efforts to combat illicit arms diversion and violate their arms control obligations. The unrestrained "pumping" of weapons into the Kiev regime by NATO Member States, which openly acknowledge the lack of capabilities to trace their further movement, is sharply exacerbating the risk of these weapons, including particularly sensitive ones, falling into the hands of criminal organizations and terrorist groups, as well as their uncontrolled proliferation in Europe and worldwide.

❗️ О «разъяснениях» Еврокомиссии к ранее введенному запрету на ввоз в ЕС товаров российского происхождения

👉 «Разъяснения» Еврокомиссии к ранее введенному запрету на ввоз в ЕС товаров российского происхождения – уже не первая антироссийская акция.

Запрет на прямое авиасообщение, ужесточение визовой практики, теперь эти «разъяснения» по санкциям, которые находятся за гранью абсурда, направлены на нанесение ущерба именно простым россиянам, на то, чтобы фактически сделать гражданам России невозможным въезд в Евросоюз.

В связи с большим числом поступающих обращений российских граждан и находящихся за рубежом соотечественников вновь акцентируем необходимость тщательно взвешивать все риски при планировании поездок за границу и пребывании в недружественных странах, внимательно следить за предупреждениями МИД России и российских заграничных учреждений, проявлять повышенную бдительность и выдержку.

Учитывать, что при пересечении границы физическое лицо добровольно передает себя под иностранную юрисдикцию, что предполагает обязанность соблюдать законы и нормы страны посещения.

⚠️ В круглосуточном режиме работают оперативные дежурные Департамента Ситуационно-кризисный центр МИД России, которым российские граждане, оказавшиеся в затруднительном положении за рубежом, могут передать всю информацию по телефону: +7 (495) 695-45-45 и e-mail: dskc@mid.ru.

Рекомендуется также обращаться к русскоязычным адвокатам, которые могли бы оказать практическую помощь в трудной ситуации. Соответствующие списки юристов размещены на интернет-ресурсах МИД России – Консульского департамента, Департамента Ситуационно-кризисный центр и заграничных учреждений.

❗️ МИД России и российские загранучреждения будут внимательно отслеживать развитие ситуации в режиме реального времени и определять в отношении каждой конкретной страны дальнейшие шаги на основе анализа действий её официальных представителей.

❗️ On the “clarifications” provided by the European Commission regarding the earlier imposed ban on bringing Russian-made goods into the EU

👉 The “clarifications” provided by the European Commission regarding the earlier imposed ban on bringing goods from Russia into the EU are just another anti-Russia move.

The ban on direct air travel, the tightening of visa practices, and now these “clarifications” on sanctions, which are beyond the pale, are aimed at causing harm to ordinary Russians, essentially making it impossible for Russian citizens to enter the European Union.

Due to the high number of inquiries coming from Russian citizens and compatriots abroad, we once again emphasise the need to carefully assess all risks when planning trips abroad and staying in unfriendly countries. Pay close attention to notices provided by the Foreign Ministry and Russian foreign missions, and exercise increased vigilance and composure.

Keep in mind that when crossing a border, individuals voluntarily submit themselves to foreign jurisdiction, which implies an obligation to abide by the laws and regulations of the host country.

⚠️ The Foreign Ministry’s Crisis Management Centre operates around the clock. Russian citizens who find themselves in difficult situations abroad can provide the necessary information by calling +7 (495) 695-45-45 or emailing dskc@mid.ru.

It is also recommended to seek assistance from Russian-speaking lawyers who can provide practical help in challenging situations. Lists of lawyers are available on the ministry and consular department’s websites, the Crisis Management Centre, and foreign missions.

❗️ The Foreign Ministry and Russian foreign missions will closely monitor the situation in real time and determine further actions with regard to each specific country based on the analysis of the actions taken by its official representatives.

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

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

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

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

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