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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇳 Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat on assistance in promoting Russian food and fertilisers on global markets
<…> 1. The Russian Federation will continue commercial deliveries of food and fertilisers to the countries in need of these products. <…>
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<…> 1. The Russian Federation will continue commercial deliveries of food and fertilisers to the countries in need of these products. <…>
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🗓 On December 11, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) marks its 76th anniversary.
In the course of its history, the fund has come a long way from a temporary emergency programme to the key organisation in the UN system related to child protection and development. In particular, the fund deals with the issues of maternal and newborn health, early childhood development, children’s nutrition, education, and mother and child care in emergency situations.
🇷🇺🤝🇺🇳 Russia is committed to the progressive development of cooperation with the fund. Our country is a member of the UNICEF Executive Board, the organisation’s governing body. Together with the fund, we implement projects to develop education in Syria and Belarus. In 2021, the Russian Direct Investment Fund and UNICEF signed a long-term agreement on the delivery of the Sputnik V vaccine.
The relations between Russia and the fund reached a new status after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Russian Federation and UNICEF in 2019. The document was designed to bring the cooperation between Russia and UNICEF to a strategic level.
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In the course of its history, the fund has come a long way from a temporary emergency programme to the key organisation in the UN system related to child protection and development. In particular, the fund deals with the issues of maternal and newborn health, early childhood development, children’s nutrition, education, and mother and child care in emergency situations.
🇷🇺🤝🇺🇳 Russia is committed to the progressive development of cooperation with the fund. Our country is a member of the UNICEF Executive Board, the organisation’s governing body. Together with the fund, we implement projects to develop education in Syria and Belarus. In 2021, the Russian Direct Investment Fund and UNICEF signed a long-term agreement on the delivery of the Sputnik V vaccine.
The relations between Russia and the fund reached a new status after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Russian Federation and UNICEF in 2019. The document was designed to bring the cooperation between Russia and UNICEF to a strategic level.
#RussiaUNICEF #UNICEF #RussiaUN
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 On January 23, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as part of his visit to New York to participate in the UN Security Council meetings on Ukrainian and Middle East issues.
They had a substantive discussion of various aspects of cooperation between Russia and the UN, as well as key issues on the international agenda.
Both Sides noted the importance of further strengthening the central coordinating role of the United Nations in global politics with account of the full range of its member states’ opinions.
Sergey Lavrov also emphasised that it is imperative for all members of the UN Secretariat to strictly observe the principles of impartiality and equidistance in full compliance with the UN Charter.
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They had a substantive discussion of various aspects of cooperation between Russia and the UN, as well as key issues on the international agenda.
Both Sides noted the importance of further strengthening the central coordinating role of the United Nations in global politics with account of the full range of its member states’ opinions.
Sergey Lavrov also emphasised that it is imperative for all members of the UN Secretariat to strictly observe the principles of impartiality and equidistance in full compliance with the UN Charter.
#RussiaUN
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🇺🇳 The Russian Federation completed its Presidency in the United Nations Security Council on July 31. Its packed agenda revolved around three central events, with the first two of them attended by FM Sergey Lavrov.
On July 16, we held a high-level open debate titled “Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order,” which reaffirmed the need to hold detailed discussions dealing with the underpinnings of the emerging multipolar world order, the objective to reinforce a UN-centred system of international relations, as well as the need to carry out a comprehensive review of the root causes of present-day conflicts and to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome them. The fact that the Global Majority tends to distrust the infamous Western concept of a rules-based world order was also mentioned during the debate.
On July 17, the Security Council held a quarterly ministerial-level debate on the agenda item titled “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.” During this meeting, participants discussed the situation in the region with all its tension, while placing a special emphasis on the escalating violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone for finding ways out of this unprecedented crisis. In addition to this, the UNSC held separate meetings on July 26 and 31 on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of the Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
On July 19, the UNSC held a debate titled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (#CIS), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO).” In his remarks, Deputy FM Sergey Vershinin stressed the importance for the UN to work closer with constructive regional organisations. <...>
In addition to this, Russia’s UNSC Presidency included all the events as part of the mandate-reporting cycle.
👉 The Middle East bloc included meetings on Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
👉 The African agenda covered discussions of the situation in West Africa, the Sahara and Sahel region, and the DR Congo.
👉 The council also touched upon peacebuilding efforts in Columbia and the start of deploying the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti.
👉 We exchanged views on the activities of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia and the Cyprus settlement.
❗️The Ukraine crisis remained high on the agenda. On July 9, Western countries convened a Security Council meeting in connection with the tragic incident involving a children’s hospital in Kiev. During the debate, the Russian delegation refuted accusations by its opponents and shared evidence demonstrating that the Ukrainian air defence systems were to blame for the incident. On July 25, Russia initiated a UNSC meeting to discuss the unrelenting flow of Western weapons into Ukraine, which delays a settlement in this conflict and leads to more victims.
The Security Council adopted four resolutions in July:
✅ on focusing the CAR arms embargo on illegal armed groups;
✅ extending the mandates for the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement and the UN Integrated Office in Haiti;
✅ regarding the UN Focal Point on delisting-related matters and re-establishing the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General UNSC Sanctions Issues.
🇺🇳 Russia went to great lengths to enable the Security Council to be effective and responsive in its work. We encouraged our colleagues within the Council to come up with collective responses when dealing with challenges to peace and security, while seeking guidance from a holistic view of the purposes and principles set forth in the UN Charter and their inter-connected nature. The central events on the agenda of the Russian Presidency attracted a lot of attention within the international community, reaffirming our country’s high authority and the respect it commands as a UN founding member and permanent member of the Security Council.
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On July 16, we held a high-level open debate titled “Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order,” which reaffirmed the need to hold detailed discussions dealing with the underpinnings of the emerging multipolar world order, the objective to reinforce a UN-centred system of international relations, as well as the need to carry out a comprehensive review of the root causes of present-day conflicts and to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome them. The fact that the Global Majority tends to distrust the infamous Western concept of a rules-based world order was also mentioned during the debate.
On July 17, the Security Council held a quarterly ministerial-level debate on the agenda item titled “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.” During this meeting, participants discussed the situation in the region with all its tension, while placing a special emphasis on the escalating violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone for finding ways out of this unprecedented crisis. In addition to this, the UNSC held separate meetings on July 26 and 31 on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of the Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
On July 19, the UNSC held a debate titled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (#CIS), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO).” In his remarks, Deputy FM Sergey Vershinin stressed the importance for the UN to work closer with constructive regional organisations. <...>
In addition to this, Russia’s UNSC Presidency included all the events as part of the mandate-reporting cycle.
👉 The Middle East bloc included meetings on Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
👉 The African agenda covered discussions of the situation in West Africa, the Sahara and Sahel region, and the DR Congo.
👉 The council also touched upon peacebuilding efforts in Columbia and the start of deploying the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti.
👉 We exchanged views on the activities of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia and the Cyprus settlement.
❗️The Ukraine crisis remained high on the agenda. On July 9, Western countries convened a Security Council meeting in connection with the tragic incident involving a children’s hospital in Kiev. During the debate, the Russian delegation refuted accusations by its opponents and shared evidence demonstrating that the Ukrainian air defence systems were to blame for the incident. On July 25, Russia initiated a UNSC meeting to discuss the unrelenting flow of Western weapons into Ukraine, which delays a settlement in this conflict and leads to more victims.
The Security Council adopted four resolutions in July:
✅ on focusing the CAR arms embargo on illegal armed groups;
✅ extending the mandates for the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement and the UN Integrated Office in Haiti;
✅ regarding the UN Focal Point on delisting-related matters and re-establishing the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General UNSC Sanctions Issues.
🇺🇳 Russia went to great lengths to enable the Security Council to be effective and responsive in its work. We encouraged our colleagues within the Council to come up with collective responses when dealing with challenges to peace and security, while seeking guidance from a holistic view of the purposes and principles set forth in the UN Charter and their inter-connected nature. The central events on the agenda of the Russian Presidency attracted a lot of attention within the international community, reaffirming our country’s high authority and the respect it commands as a UN founding member and permanent member of the Security Council.
Read in full
#RussiaUN