❗️Putin: Incident in Bryansk Region Terrorist Attack, Ukrainians Attacked Civilians

The Ukrainian saboteurs opened fire despite being able to see the family with children were in a civilian car, the Russian president noted.

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Russia at UN: NATO Unsettled Security Architecture - Arms Control Extremely Difficult

Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov has blamed NATO for the current, degrading state of arms control around the globe - as the military alliance seeks control at the expense of wider protections.

Ryabkov told UN members that pressuring countries create risks, as Washington & partners escalate the conflict in Ukraine. He also said Russia would respect limits after suspending its role in the New START treaty.

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🇺🇸 State Sec. Blinken Urges 🇷🇺 FM Lavrov to Reverse Decision on New START on G20 Sidelines in India (Reuters)

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the US reached out to Russia for contact and the top diplomats spoke while on the move.

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❗️🇷🇺 Deputy FM: Contact made in Geneva with US delegation on START Situation - Sergey Ryabkov called conversation "business-like" while speaking at the Russian mission building in Switzerland

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🇷🇺 Relations with 🇮🇳 Reflect Special Character of Ties - Sergey Lavrov added that Moscow highly appreciates India's stance on global matters

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📚 A Sputnik correspondent went to the World Book Exhibition, which opened in India on February 25 and which was visited by Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov.

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📹 WATCH: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answers questions from Sputnik correspondent Denis Bolotsky on national currency payment mechanisms.

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🗣The West has set aside diplomacy and engages only in blackmail and threats, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says

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❗️🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s latest statements at G20 presser:

▪️Final declaration couldn't be agreed upon due to dispute between G20 members on Ukraine conflict;

▪️West refuses to include Russia's proposal on need for investigation of Nord Stream blasts in G20 final declaration;

▪️Western colleagues were speechless when they heard about Kiev's discrimination against Russian culture in Ukraine.

🇷🇺 Check out key statements by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the G20 meeting:

🔸Russia expects honest, prompt investigation of terrorist attack on Nord Stream with participation of Moscow, other interested parties;

🔸Russia expects that the G20 summit in New Delhi in September will at least partially mitigate the risks posed to economic stability by the "selfish policy" of the West;

🔸The West is shamelessly burying the grain deal initiated by the UN Secretary General.

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Good morning, India! 🌞 शुभ प्रभात, भारत!

📸 Vologda Oblast, Russia

🔴 #LIVE: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at the «Raisin's Dialogue» conference in New Delhi

🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202303030630-live13567-lavrov-participates-in-raisina-dialogue-in-new-delhi

🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video

🎙 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov speaks on the deplorable human rights situation in Ukraine at the UN HRC:

💥 Western-supplied weapons are actively used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike residential buildings, schools and hospitals, killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.

❗️ These are all war crimes, violations of the international humanitarian law, in which NATO countries are entangled, whose representatives very much like to moralize and make hypocritical statements on the human rights from the HRC rostrum.

🇺🇦 Meanwhile, the Kiev regime systematically violates  fundamental human rights and freedoms. In breach of the Ukrainian Constitution and its international obligations, a number of laws on total “Ukrainization” was adopted, which affected education, science, culture, media, radio, television, the Internet, advertising, and the service industry.

🇷🇺 The Russian language, a mother tongue to millions of Ukrainian residents, has been targeted the greatest.

📅 On March 1-2, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi.

We consider the G20 to be a key global governance forum and a major representative platform for discussing a wide range of socioeconomic issues. We are confident that this association must play a significant role in building a polycentric global economic system. <...>

In his remarks, Sergey Lavrov expanded on Russia’s principled approaches to building up international cooperation based on equality and the UN Charter, without double standards or arbitrary rules. He stressed the value of the G20’s constructive and de-politicised efforts, overcoming confrontational sentiments, and the strengthening of emerging markets' position on this platform. The minister pointed out that Russia was among the first countries to positively respond to the African Union’s application to become a member of the G20.

☝️ In this context, Sergey Lavrov noted the illegitimacy of unilateral sanctions, any forms of discrimination when it comes to food and fertiliser supplies, dishonest competition by establishing price caps and other attempts to appropriate other countries’ natural resources.

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The G20 succeeded in reaching consensus on the majority of the issues raised by the Indian presidency. <...> However, the parties failed to approve the final collective document, due the United States, the EU and other parties dogmatically demanding that their subjective views concerning the widely promoted geopolitical crisis around Ukraine be reflected in the document. It is regrettable that the Western countries continue to hold the G20 hostage to its confrontational course.

The minister noted the unprecedented nature of the sabotage at the Nord Stream gas pipeline system that requires an impartial investigation with Russia’s involvement.

🤝 On the sidelines of the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Mr Lavrov had multiple bilateral contacts with his colleagues from the G20.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Plenary Session of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on countering terrorism, digital transformation, humanitarian assistance and disaster risk reduction

📍 New Delhi, March 2, 2023

🔹 Since 2014, a new and ever-growing hotbed of extremism has emerged in Ukraine.

🔹 We are convinced that renouncing double standards and hidden agendas is critical for responding to the terrorist threat. Efforts to eradicate this absolute evil cannot be made hostage to momentary considerations and bloc-based approaches.

🔹 The global economy currently finds itself at the nexus of several major challenges. Many of them are geopolitical in nature or are exacerbated by international confrontation. In particular, this concerns the pressing topics on the agenda of the Indian Presidency: terrorism, drug trafficking and natural disasters.

🔹 The surge in terrorism has been largely attributable to Western interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states. Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan suffered from armed ventures and neo-colonial aspirations, which undermined their statehood, with terrorist groups on the loose, the growing threat of drug trafficking, impoverishment of the people and the deterioration of human rights.

🔹 Over the past years, Russia helped more than 110 countries, primarily in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, to overcome natural disasters. We also provided over $270 million to international humanitarian structures to this effect.

🔹 The rapid development of ICT and the accelerating pace of digital transformation create substantial risks. Russia was the first country to suggest drafting an international convention on fighting cybercrime within the UN. In 2019, Russia initiated and co-sponsored with 47 other countries a UN General Assembly resolution to launch the relevant negotiating process, which is now entering a practical phase.

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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at G20 Ministers Meeting in New Delhi: We are grateful to our Indian friends for the warm welcome and effective G20 leadership as well as for strengthening G20 ties with the Global South. We join in the condolences extended to the governments and peoples of Turkey and Syria in connection with the devastating earthquakes.

#Lavrov: We stand in solidarity with New Delhi’s call to build a common future for humanity, which is especially important in the context of growing geopolitical confrontation. We share the practical objectives of strengthening multilateralism and overcoming global economic crises set during India’s Presidency.

I would like to apologise to the Presidency and our colleagues from the Global South for the improper behaviour of a number of Western delegations, which turned the discussion on the G20 agenda into a travesty in an attempt to shift their responsibility for failures in economic policy to others, primarily Russia. It’s kind of funny that those trying so hard was the representatives of the countries whose leaders admitted that they have been sabotaging the #UNSC resolution and flooding #Ukraine with weapons for war against #Russia since 2015.

The aggressive Russophobia appears particularly outrageous given that the G20 Western members have never grieved at the G20 meetings over the many hundreds of thousands of lives lost in Washington’s reckless adventures in the Middle East under the pretext of national security threats that came from places 10,000 miles away from the US borders.

We see no alternative to the sole legitimate international order that is embodied in the UN Charter’s basic principles. We would like to emphasise its bedrock provisions, namely, sovereign equality of states and strict adherence to international treaties, including universal conventions on the rights of ethnic minorities, which were trampled upon by the Kiev regime to the applause of its Western masters. Russia consistently opposes the attempts to destroy the supporting structure of international law or to replace it with far-fetched “rules” or “double standards.”

The formation of a polycentric world calls for recognising civilisational diversity and mutual respect for interests. It is imperative to stop being guided by the flawed logic of domination, diktat and sanctions. We welcome the rise of new centres of influence in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

Integration processes continue within the Eurasian Economic Union space. Prospects are opening up for coupling its potential with other multilateral associations and initiatives on our common continent, such as the SCO, Belt and Road Initiative, and ASEAN. For this purpose we plan to make wide use of the capabilities offered by President Putin’s initiative on creating a broad integration association in the form of the Greater Eurasian Partnership.

We will strive to democratise economic management. We support the African Union’s G20 membership. We advocate for increasing the role of the developing economies at the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO and eliminating the Western monopoly in environmental and human rights organisations.

We are witnessing the West-provoked deterioration and weaponising of international economic relations, including in the energy sector. We are shocked to see the masterminds behind the act of sabotage against the Nord Stream main gas pipelines within the NATO and the EU area of responsibility get away with what they did. We insist on an honest and swift investigation into that terrorist attack to be conducted with the participation of Russia and other stakeholders. We insist on ensuring energy security and access for all countries to energy resources at affordable prices and eliminating unfair competition. The green agenda and successful energy transition must be promoted without imposing on countries models requiring expensive technologies that are detrimental to national socioeconomic development plans. It is imperative to put a stop to illegitimate sanctions, all forms of violations of freedom of international trade, market manipulation and arbitrary introduction of price ceilings or other attempts to appropriate other countries’ natural resources.

#Lavrov: It’s time to stop playing the food card. This crisis stems from the West printing trillions of US dollars and euros early on during the COVID-19 pandemic and buying up food supplies around the world. Today, the bulk of grain supplies from Ukraine are being shipped at giveaway fodder prices to the EU, rather than to the poorest countries that need them. Russia’s efforts to export agricultural products are openly obstructed around the world, no matter how hard the EU officials, who are so used to telling lies, are trying to convince everyone otherwise. Batches of free Russian fertilisers, in particular, for Africa, remain blocked at European ports. Without any scruples, the West is burying the UN Secretary-General’s well-known humanitarian initiative.

Against this backdrop, Russia is diversifying economic ties and expanding trade with its partners who are capable of negotiations. We are part of the efforts to create a gas distribution hub in Türkiye. We will host another Russia-Africa Summit in July. Acting within BRICS, the SCO and the EAEU, we are committed to form reliable transport corridors and independent payment systems and to expand settlements in national currencies.

We will continue to make a major contribution to ensuring economic stability. We are open to an equitable dialogue at the G20. We hope that the Delhi summit in September will at least mitigate the risks created by the self-serving Western policies.

🇷🇺🤝🇮🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s presser following the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting

#Lavrov: I would like to give credit to our Indian friends for their intention to focus on issues that require collective solutions and the pooling of efforts.

The agenda offered by the Indian hosts fully reflects the aspirations of all states to overcome the persisting crisis, ensure sustainable growth, remove artificial barriers, guarantee fair competition in trade, enhance the multilateral character of the global system, support the UN’s central role and help developing nations have more of a say in international decision-making. All these issues are reflected in the document that our representatives and experts discussed for several days. Agreement was reached on all issues of the G20 agenda, including the need to ensure genuine multilaterism and bolster the positions of developing nations.

It was agreed that from now on the African Union will be a full-fledged member of the G20, just as the EU that has been working in this capacity for several years now.  The document concerns the need to ensure food and energy security and reform the WTO. These are useful and correct agreements.

Unfortunately, the G20 declaration was not approved on behalf of all G20 foreign ministers. As a year ago (under Indonesia’s Presidency), our Western partners were going all-out to highlight the situation around Ukraine, which they were presenting as “Russian aggression” in numerous rhetorical statements. No good came of it.

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🇷🇺🙏🇮🇳 #Lavrov: We never make friends against somebody. The official documents signed by the two leaders characterise relations with #India as an especially privileged strategic partnership. I do not know whether any other country has the same status with our Indian friends on paper, officially, but this is what we believe is reflecting the reality, be it the economy, be it technology, be it military cooperation, military-technical cooperation, culture, humanitarian ties, educational ties.

ℹ️ Russian Foreign Minister answers questions during the Raisina Dialogue conference in New Delhi on March 3, 2023 - read transcription and watch full video