⚡️ As reported earlier, prior to the conclusion of the 104th session of the OPCW Executive Council session on October 13, 2023, the Russian delegation circulated a response note among the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in reference to the most recent anti-Russian demarche by Germany on behalf of Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the US.

Key talking points:

• The false allegations against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation regarding alleged plans to use chemical warfare agents or toxic chemicals for the purposes that are prohibited by the CWC, including under a false flag, in the area of the special military operation, have absolutely no basis.

• Russia has repeatedly brought to the attention of the Technical Secretariat, the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, as well as the UN Security Council and General Assembly information regarding the preparation and execution of provocations by the Kiev regime involving the use of toxic chemicals and their actual use by Ukrainian paramilitary formations against Russian military in violation of Kiev's commitments under the CWC.

• Materials were delivered personally to the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat, Mr Fernando Arias. These materials are based on an analysis of samples collected amid active fighting outside the town of Rabotino, Zaporozhye Region of the Russian Federation. These samples were obtained from at least two locations where Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries violated the CWC by using toxic chemicals.

• The need is overdue to counterbalance with common sense the relentless ambitions of the collective West to turn the OPCW, along with other specialised multilateral entities, into a tool for preserving and consolidating its dominance in global politics.

❗️ In response to the most recent request from Germany, we emphasise once again that Russian forces do not use chemical means to combat disorderly behaviour as part of the special military operation.

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⚡️ Address by the State Duma to the UN and the parliaments of foreign states over the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

💬 Deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appeal to the United Nations Organisation and the parliaments of foreign states to take every measure possible as a matter of urgency to stop the bloodshed and the escalation of violence against civilians in the course of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to prevent an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the Middle East.

We strongly condemn all and any violations of the international humanitarian law by the conflicting sides, such as the use of munitions that have been prohibited under international treaties, carpet bombing, strikes at civilian infrastructure, first of all, medical facilities, energy and water supply systems, and the coercive relocation of local residents.

Those guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity must be called to account and severely punished.

☝️ We regard the policy of the US-led collective West as immoral and irresponsible; their current actions are hindering the settlement of the Middle East conflict and are instead adding fuel to conflagration in that long-suffering region.

❗️Nothing can camouflage the failure of Washington’s Middle East policy.

State Duma deputies call on members of parliament in all countries to do everything in their power to put an end to hostilities in the conflict zone, organise humanitarian corridors and provide the necessary assistance to the injured and the victims’ families.

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⚡️Hvordan Vesten bragte krigen til Ukraine Af Benjamin Abelow udgivet af Hovedland

📖 Er noscriptn på den amerikanske forfatter, foredragsholder og lobbyist Benjamin Abelows lille, koncentrerede bog om baggrunden for krigen i Ukraine. Bogen er blevet stærkt rost af så forskellige røster som Noam Chomsky, John Mearsheimer og oberst Douglas Macgregor.

☝️I betragtning af at vi siges at leve i et demokrati, er det overordnet set besynderligt, at ingen politikere, ingen medlemmer af regeringen, ingen medlemmer af den 4. Statsmagt, pressen har afvigende meninger om krigen og i særdeleshed, hvem der har ansvaret for krigen. Den helt overvejende vurdering og hvem der bærer ansvaret for krigen, er induceret af vores øverste NATO-partner, USA. Ingen, bortset fra én tidligere politiker, Marie Krarup, har vovet at give udtryk for afvigende meninger...

Pens. oberststløjtnant af Hæren Jens Kristian Bech Pedersen har oversat bogen, og Marie Krarup, har skrevet et dansk forord til bogen, hvori hun bl.a. skriver: ”Forfatterens skræmmende rigtige tese er, at Vesten har misforstået, hvorfor Rusland invaderede Ukraine. Hvilket betyder, at Vesten træffer vigtige afgørelser på falske præmisser.”

👇EXPERTS ENDORSEMENTS:

💬“Very well-done…. Reviews material that should be much better known.” — Noam Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

💬“A brilliant, remarkably concise explanation…. Needs to be read and pondered by every citizen capable of thinking rationally and responsibly about American and European security.” — Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991.

💬“For anyone interested in understanding the true causes of the disaster in Ukraine, How the West Brought War to Ukraine is required reading.” — John J.Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

🎙 News conference by Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova (October 16, 2023)

Key talking points:

💬 We are working on establishing in new regions a system of protecting children. Within the project To the Hands of Children we have organized 27 humanitarian convoys. Targeted assistance was provided to ~13,000 people.

New regions are continuing to suffer from military aggression from Ukraine. Children get killed and injured. We help in organizing emergency medical assistance and rehabilitation of children. We bring them to federal clinics and buy the necessary equipment.

We have been reuniting families since the beginning of the special military operation in a consistent and open way. 35 children from 24 families have reunited with their families living in Ukraine and other countries.

The Committee of the Red Cross provides significant aid to us, as its representatives accompany the families on the territory of Russia and Belarus. Strangely enough, Ukraine itself and the ICRC representatives in Kyiv are extremely reluctant to work in this area.

❗️We see the politicizing of the situation by Ukraine, so-called information bubble around our activities. <...> You can read our bulletin on our website & in social networks. It is a source of truth.

Despite the unprecedented sanctions, pressure and disinformation around Russia our international agenda has expanded last year.

Yesterday, a flight landed, which brought 34 children back to Russia from Syria. Since 2018, Russia has managed to bring 513 children back from armed conflicts zones in Syria and Iraq. <...> We have been carrying out charity projects in Africa, primarily in health care and education.

It does not have nationalities, regardless whether the children are Abkhazian, African, Russian, Ukrainian, Syrian. These children need safety, care, warmth, and family environment. We see our mission there.

🎙 Выступление Специального представителя Президента Российской Федерации по Ближнему Востоку и странам Африки, заместителя Министра иностранных дел М.Л.Богданова на Каирском саммите мира, 21 октября 2023

💬 Руководство Российской Федерации высоко оценивает инициативу Президента Арабской Республики Египет А.Сиси по созыву в Каире саммита мира.

• Беспрецедентная по своим масштабам вспышка насилия в зоне палестино-израильского конфликта вызывает катастрофический рост числа жертв среди гражданского населения с обеих сторон.

• Российская дипломатия предпринимает интенсивные усилия по деэскалации обстановки. До всех вовлеченных сторон нами доведен однозначный сигнал: нужно безотлагательно прекратить огонь и обеспечить гуманитарные коридоры с целью срочного оказания помощи всем нуждающимся.

• В Совете Безопасности ООН нами был инициирован проект резолюции с требованиями реализации неотложных мер, призванных остановить насилие. К сожалению, из-за негативной позиции США Совет Безопасности ООН не смог реализовать своё главное уставное предназначение – поддержать международный мир и безопасность.

• Наряду с решением не терпящих промедления задач по прекращению нынешнего витка насилия необходимо безотлагательно приступить к согласованию стратегии коллективных действий по политическому урегулированию конфликта, задачей продвижения которого занимался в прошлом «квартет» международных посредников в составе России, США, ЕС и ООН.

• На повестке дня – формирование коллективного посреднического механизма с активной ролью региональных государств.

• В пользу этого говорят те позитивные тенденции, которые в последнее время наметились в развитии ближневосточной ситуации: саудовско-иранская нормализация, реинтеграция Сирии в Лигу арабских государств, постепенное оздоровление межгосударственных отношений между Сирией и Турцией.

☝️ Когда страны региона берут ситуацию в свои руки и не подвергаются внешнему давлению, они многого добиваются на пути стабилизации Ближнего Востока.

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🎙 Speech by the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs M.L. Bogdanov at the Cairo Peace Summit, 21 October 2023

💬 The leadership of the Russian Federation highly appreciates the initiative of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt A. Sisi to convene the Cairo Peace Summit.

- The unprecedented outbreak of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone is causing a catastrophic increase in the number of civilian casualties on both sides.

- Russian diplomacy is making intensive efforts to de-escalate the situation. We have sent an unequivocal message to all parties involved: there must be an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian corridors must be secured in order to provide urgent assistance to all those in need.

- We have initiated a draft resolution in the UN Security Council demanding the implementation of urgent measures to stop the violence. Unfortunately, due to the negative position of the United States, the UN Security Council was unable to fulfil its main statutory purpose - to maintain international peace and security.

- Along with the solution of the urgent tasks to stop the current acts of violence, it is necessary to urgently start agreeing on a strategy of collective action for a political settlement of the conflict, the task of promoting which has been carried out in the past by the "quartet" of international mediators consisting of Russia, the United States, the EU and the UN.

- The formation of a collective mediation mechanism with an active role for regional States is on the agenda.

- This is supported by the positive trends that have recently emerged in the development of the Middle East situation: the Saudi-Iranian normalisation, the reintegration of Syria into the Arab League, and the gradual improvement in inter-State relations between Syria and Turkey.

☝️ When the countries of the region take the situation into their own hands and are not subjected to external pressure, they achieve a lot on the way to stabilising the Middle East.

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🇺🇳 The UN Charter entered into force 7️⃣8️⃣ years ago, after having being signed at the concluding session of the UN Conference on International Organisation in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. This is the official date of the founding of the UN.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: It is critical to endeavor to turn the spirit of multipolarity enshrined in the UN Charter into reality. An increasing number of countries from the global majority seek to strengthen their sovereignty and uphold their national interests, traditions, culture, and way of life.

🇷🇺 Russia consistently calls for strengthening the UN’s central and coordinating role in global affairs.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: It is time to look at fairer methods of making up the UN Secretariat. The criteria that have been in place for many years do not reflect the actual influence of states in global affairs and artificially ensure the excessive dominance of citizens of NATO and EU countries.

👉 Article Adherence to the UN Charter principles in their entirety and interconnection underwrite international peace and stability by Sergey Lavrov (October 10, 2023)

#UNCharterIsOurRules

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry's Deputy Spokesperson Alexey Zaytsev (Moscow, October 20, 2023)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Russia denounces Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
🔹 Poland’s visa-related harassment of the Russian civil society
🔹 Russophobic action of the Australian authorities
🔹 50th anniversary of oil production limits imposed by OPEC countries to protest US policy in the Middle East
🔹 BRICS+ International Municipal Forum
🔹 75 years of United Nations’ work in Moscow

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#MiddleEast

We are prioritising steps to provide security to Russians in Israel and in the Palestinian territories. We are in constant contact with them via Russian diplomatic missions and consulates and are working with our partners to organise the safe evacuation of Russian citizens, who have applied for help, from the zone of hostilities. As of today, about 1,000 persons, including citizens of CIS countries and their family members, have submitted relevant applications.

We want to emphasise once again that the current spiral in the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation is the direct consequence of the West disregarding the existing UN and Security Council resolutions and actually blocking the performance of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators, which includes Russia, the US, the EU and the UN.

#Ukraine

Today, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis follow in the footsteps of their ideological predecessors from the Third Reich. They deliver artillery and missile strikes at peaceful Russian cities and villages with particular cynicism, causing pain and suffering to local residents and ruthlessly destroying civilian infrastructure. It is not accidental that the notorious Nazi from the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), Yaroslav Hunka, described Vladimir Zelensky as a “worthy successor” to his cause.

📹 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to participants in the No Statute of Limitations international forum (October 24, 2023)

▫️ Seventy-seven years ago, on October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered a historic verdict, condemning the main Nazi war criminals and legally securing the defeat of the Hitler regime.

▫️ The Nuremberg Trials opened a new page in the development of international law. The foundation of the modern system of international criminal justice was laid then.

▫️ It is generally recognised that the Nazi atrocities have no statute of limitations. Our country continues ambitious work to investigate newly discovered facts of criminal acts committed by the Nazi invaders.

▫️ The fact that a number of European countries, primarily Ukraine and the Baltic states, are systematically destroying historical memory, causes particular concern. It has gone so far that honours are now bestowed without hesitation to former Nazis.

▫️ I would like to remind representatives of the criminal Kiev regime and its Western patrons that, according to the materials of the Nuremberg Trials, almost 200,000 civilians were tortured to death, shot and poisoned in Kiev alone. Many of them were killed by the SS.

▫️ In 1942, the Nazi criminal Reichskommissar Erich Koch wrote in the address to the heads of the German media that Ukraine was nothing but an object of exploitation, that it should pay the expenses of the war, and its population, being second-rate people, should be utilised for the tasks of the war, even if they have to be caught with a lasso.

▫️ The “historical West” led by the US is de facto sharing a similar sentiment and is ready to contain Russia to the last Ukrainian.

▫️ Against this backdrop, the fight against falsifying the results of the Second World War and spreading a misanthropic ideology are among the key priorities of Russian diplomacy.

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🎙 Statement by Andrey Belousov, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation, at the Thematic Debate on “Conventional Weapons” in the First Committee of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly (New York, 23 October 2023)

💬 The Russian Federation consistently calls for further strengthening of the Inhumane Weapons Convention (CCW) regime through the universalization of the Convention and Protocols thereto, as well as bona fide implementation of their provisions.

👉 In the context of compliance with the CCW, the criminal actions of the Kiev regime require condemnation and response from the international community.

The number of daily violations by Ukrainian formations of the norms and principles of international humanitarian law (IHL), including the deployment of heavy weapons in residential areas, the use of civilians as human shields and the use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes, demonstrates the absolutely conscious use of inhumane tactics of combat in violation of IHL.

We have registered facts of targeted mining by Ukrainian armed formations of roadsides, country paths, bridges, dams, areas around residential houses, educational and medical establishments.

❗️ All of the above is a direct violation of the basic provisions of international humanitarian law, including CCW Amended Protocol II.

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We pay increased attention to the UN Register of Conventional Arms as one of the main mechanisms for transparency and ensuring international security by monitoring and identifying destabilising accumulations of weapons in certain regions of the world.

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🎙 Comment by the Foreign Ministry’s Official Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on the Kursk NPP

💬 In the evening of October 26, the Ukrainian Armed Forces intentionally attacked the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant with three unmanned aerial vehicles.

One of the UAVs, loaded with explosives, crashed into a nuclear waste warehouse and damaged its walls. The other two fell on the plant’s administrative building complex.

❗️ According to preliminary data, the unmanned aerial vehicles used to attack the nuclear power plant had components supplied by Western countries.

⚠️ This incident clearly shows that the criminal Kiev regime will stop at nothing, including acts of nuclear terrorism. They could not but realise that the UAV attack could have resulted in a full-scale nuclear disaster that would have affected many countries. There could have been no other objectives set for attacking a nuclear power plant, a purely peaceful infrastructure facility.

By attacking the Kursk NPP, the Kiev regime put itself on a par with the most odious terrorist organisations. The fact that this crime could not have been committed without the permission and, possibly, a direct order of its Western curators is of particular concern.

☝️ We call on all governments to strongly condemn Kiev’s barbaric actions, which are extremely dangerous and can lead to irreparable consequences. Relevant international organisations, environmental NGOs and civil society must also give an appropriate assessment of this act of terrorism.

🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, October 26, 2023)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 EU industrial production
🔹 The threat of expulsion of Russian citizens living in Latvia
🔹 Moldova

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#Ukraine

On October 23, 2023, The Washington Post carried a detailed story about the involvement of Ukrainian security services in the assassination of Darya Dugina, the explosions of the Crimean Bridge and other crimes.

According to the paper, since 2015, the CIA spent tens of millions of dollars on training Ukrainian security services and turning them into America’s allies in the fight against Russia.

It also mentions the UK’s MI-6 in the same context. Those Anglo-Saxon intelligence services reportedly established the No 5 and No 6 divisions at the Security Service of Ukraine. Both divisions were directly subordinated to them and were expected to focus on active measures (acts of sabotage) against Russia.

According to the publication, the CIA was behind Ukrainian security services’ operations all the time. The Ukrainian side coordinated all high-profile operations with the CIA which provided the perpetrators with all the essentials.

#MiddleEast

We are deeply concerned about the reported geographical expansion of fighting in the West Bank. The potential for conflict is growing along the Blue Line on the Lebanese-Israeli border. We are watching with concern as Israel steps up air strikes on Syrian territory. We are extremely concerned about the military manoeuvres by non-regional parties in the Eastern Mediterranean. These factors, along with the increasing bellicose rhetoric from various sides, heighten the risks of the conflict escalating into a region-wide one.

In this regard, we reiterate the need for an early ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors for evacuation and delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. We also reiterate our call for the release of the hostages.

🎙 President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with members of the Security Council and Government, and the heads of security agencies (October 30, 2023)

💬 At a recent meeting with religious associations’ leaders, I spoke about the attempts to use the dramatic situation in the Middle East and other regional conflicts against our country to destabilise and divide our multi-ethnic and multi-faith society.

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Those behind the Middle East conflict and other regional conflicts will be using the destructive impact of these conflicts to sow hatred and cause clashes between people around the world.

We remember how the current phase of the Middle East crisis began: it was a terrorist attack against Israeli civilians and civilians from other countries who happened to be in Israel at that time. We see that, unfortunately, instead of punishing criminals and terrorists, they started to retaliate according to the principle of collective responsibility.

There is no justification for the terrible events taking place in Gaza now, where hundreds of thousands of innocent people are being killed indiscriminately, without having anywhere to flee or hide from the bombing. When you see blood-stained children, dead children, the suffering of women and old people, when you see medics killed, of course, it makes you clench your fists as tears well in your eyes.

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We must clearly understand who in reality is behind the tragedy of peoples in the Middle East and in other regions around the world, who has been organising this lethal chaos and who benefits from it.

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These are the current ruling elites in the US and its satellites who are the main beneficiaries of the global instability that they use to extract their bloody rent.

The US as a global superpower is becoming weaker and is losing its position, and everyone sees and understands this, even judging by the trends in the world economy. The American-style world, with the hegemony of one country, is being destroyed and is receding gradually but inexorably into the past.