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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan on the sidelines of the CIS Foreign Ministers’ Council Meeting
💬 We consider regular personal contacts between our leaders useful. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan are frequently in touch. This reflects the high level of our relations as allies and strategic partners. This year we celebrated the 30th anniversary of our diplomatic relations.
🇷🇺🇦🇲 We will continue to advance our time-tested relations in all areas without exception.
Today we would certainly like to discuss how things are going in your negotiations with Azerbaijan. There are promising signs on delimitation issues. The normalisation of relations between our close neighbours and friends is fully in Russia's interests. We are ready to make our contribution to this process.
#RussiaArmenia
💬 We consider regular personal contacts between our leaders useful. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan are frequently in touch. This reflects the high level of our relations as allies and strategic partners. This year we celebrated the 30th anniversary of our diplomatic relations.
🇷🇺🇦🇲 We will continue to advance our time-tested relations in all areas without exception.
Today we would certainly like to discuss how things are going in your negotiations with Azerbaijan. There are promising signs on delimitation issues. The normalisation of relations between our close neighbours and friends is fully in Russia's interests. We are ready to make our contribution to this process.
#RussiaArmenia
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, September 19, 2023)
🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔷 Crimes of Ukrainian nationalists
🔷 Ukraine’s responsibility for the deterioration of the environment in the region
🔷 #RussiaArmenia relations
🔷 Attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2
🔷 Restrictions on the Foreign Ministry’s YouTube account
🔷 Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh
And more...
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💬 We can see some Western countries’ attempts to whitewash and canonise Ukrainian neo-Nazis. For example, the city authorities allowed the holding of a photo exhibition dedicated to the Nazi Azov battalion in Milan, on one of the city streets and in the Risorgimento Museum. Militants of this terrorist organisation are presented as “defenders” of Mariupol there. <...> A biased article in Le Figaro, France, about the Azov and Right Sector neo-Nazi organisations, whose members are depicted almost as patriots, is another outrageous example.
All these facts provoke outrage, and I would like to ask the Italians and French a question: when your journalists and politicians are trying to whitewash Ukrainian neo-Nazis and present them in such a heroic light, do you remember what your countries went through during World War II?
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💬 The decisions by the UK and the United States to supply Kiev with depleted uranium munitions have had dire long-term consequences for the region. As a result, water and soil in a vast territory have been contaminated with radiation.
Some international experts are trying to talk their way out of this situation, claiming that this is not really a nuclear security issue. Of course, there is no need to explain. We should consider this problem not only from the point of view of physics, but also of chemistry. There are no options there other than to call it a global-scale disaster.
🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔷 Crimes of Ukrainian nationalists
🔷 Ukraine’s responsibility for the deterioration of the environment in the region
🔷 #RussiaArmenia relations
🔷 Attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2
🔷 Restrictions on the Foreign Ministry’s YouTube account
🔷 Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh
And more...
📚 Read in full
💬 We can see some Western countries’ attempts to whitewash and canonise Ukrainian neo-Nazis. For example, the city authorities allowed the holding of a photo exhibition dedicated to the Nazi Azov battalion in Milan, on one of the city streets and in the Risorgimento Museum. Militants of this terrorist organisation are presented as “defenders” of Mariupol there. <...> A biased article in Le Figaro, France, about the Azov and Right Sector neo-Nazi organisations, whose members are depicted almost as patriots, is another outrageous example.
All these facts provoke outrage, and I would like to ask the Italians and French a question: when your journalists and politicians are trying to whitewash Ukrainian neo-Nazis and present them in such a heroic light, do you remember what your countries went through during World War II?
***
💬 The decisions by the UK and the United States to supply Kiev with depleted uranium munitions have had dire long-term consequences for the region. As a result, water and soil in a vast territory have been contaminated with radiation.
Some international experts are trying to talk their way out of this situation, claiming that this is not really a nuclear security issue. Of course, there is no need to explain. We should consider this problem not only from the point of view of physics, but also of chemistry. There are no options there other than to call it a global-scale disaster.