As a result of the substantive dialogue on topical financial issues, a wide range of demanded measures was agreed upon, designed to give an additional impetus to the global economy and financial markets. A significant contribution was made to these efforts by our country, #BRICS partners and developing countries.

We note the constructive role of the Indian Presidency, which strove for a fair consideration of interests and positions of all countries. The balanced approaches formulated in this context create a good foundation for responding to modern challenges in the area of global finance and related sectors, including support for economic growth and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

We regret that the activities of the G20 continue to be destabilized by the collective West and used in an anti-Russian, purely confrontational manner. Our opponents, primarily the United States, the #EU and the G7, continue their paranoid attempts to isolate Russia and shift the blame for the provoked problems in the area of international security and the global economy onto it.

Through open blackmail and diсtate, throwing in absurd interpretations of the situation in #Ukraine, the Westerners once again disrupted the adoption of collective decisions. As a result, the fully approved text of the document, except for the wording on Ukraine, which give out for assessments of the discussion at the ministerial meeting something that was not actually discussed and is unrelated to the topic of its jurisdiction, had become a hostage to this aggressive line.

The results of the meeting never received an agreed status and were released only as a statement by the chairman, and not as a joint work. #Russia and China expressed a resolute protest in this regard. Many other delegations also experienced serious disappointment with such ultimatum actions by the United States and its allies, which continue to sow enmity and hatred.

We call on the collective West to abandon its destructive course as soon as possible, to realize the objective realities of a multipolar world, and to start building normal relations with new centers of power in the international arena, such as Russia, on the principles of the sovereign equality of states. We presume that the G20 should remain an economic forum and not intrude into the security sphere, as was unanimously confirmed at its last year's summit on November 15-16 in Bali. We will continue to promote fulfillment by the G20 of the functions entrusted to it on a mutually beneficial and depoliticized basis.

🕯️On May 2014, #Ukraine’s enraged radical nationalists wreaked havoc and committed mass murder as they burned dozens of people alive in #Odessa’s House of Unions only because they peacefully stood up for their rights. This barbaric crime committed with utter cynicism and extreme brutality caused a massive public and international outcry. However, the investigation into the circumstances of the incident has yet to reach a conclusion and none of the perpetrators of this mass murder have been brought to justice despite many videos and eye-witness testimony.

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April 2022 ♦️ While #Russia was showing its readiness for negotiations, proving it by a goodwill gestures, the West insisted that #Ukraine continues fighting

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Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev

Points of no return

🔸 The tragedy that is unfolding in Ukraine dates back to the late 20th century, to wit, the collapse of the Soviet Union.

🔸 Two dates can be considered points of no return. The first one can be traced back to the autumn of 2008, when the Western world supported Georgia's aggression against the Ossetian people. The second point of no return can be dated back to the spring of 2014, when the people of Crimea expressed their will during a legally held referendum and permanently rejoined their historical homeland.

🔸 If the issue of Russia’s existence is raised in earnest, it will not be decided on the Ukrainian front. Not by any means. It will be a question of the future existence of human civilisation. And there should be no ambiguity here. We don't need a world without Russia.

🔸 One can continue to flood the neo-Nazi Kiev regime with weapons and to thwart every opportunity to resume talks. Our enemies are doing just that and are unwilling to realise that their goals clearly lead to a total fiasco where everyone stands to lose.

🔸 Western countries and their satellites represent only 15 percent of the world population. There are many more of us, and we are much stronger. The peaceful might of our great country and the high standing of its partners are the key to preserving the world’s future.

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✈️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in New Delhi

Сергей Лавров прибыл в Дели

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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇳 On March 1-3, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be on a working visit to New Delhi, as head of the Russian delegation to the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting, which will bring together the foreign ministers of the world's leading economies and invited participants, as well as relevant international organisations. The theme of the upcoming event is One Earth, One Family, One Future. Sergey Lavrov will meet with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

🇷🇺 Russia considers the G20 a prestigious forum for the world's leading economies, a significant discussion platform on global governance, where balanced consensus decisions should be made in the interests of all humankind. Its participants account for about 80 percent of global GDP, international trade, and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as two-thirds of the world's population.

The creation of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors mechanism in 1999 was a response to the Asian financial crisis and was dictated by the need to increase the coordination of economic policies between national governments. In 2008, the global financial and economic turmoil made this forum move to the national leader level. Since then, the most important decisions and recommendations on the most significant socioeconomic issues have been made at this platform.

We support India's G20 presidency in its commitment to promote a unifying agenda that will restore confidence in multilateral diplomacy and prevent the fragmentation of the global economy. We share the relevance of India's stated priorities: ensuring inclusive and sustainable economic growth; accelerating progress towards the achievement of sustainable development goals; reforming multilateral institutions; digital modernisation; and increasing women’s economic engagement.

Russia is active on all G20 ministerial tracks. We support India's effort to improve working mechanisms and create specialised processes to respond to natural disasters and launch start-ups. We are ready to make a significant contribution to making progress in all these areas. We aim to work together with our Indian colleagues to achieve the desired result, showing the greatest possible flexibility. At the same time, we will firmly defend Russia's fundamental interests and an international world order based on the central role of the UN and international law. We will strongly promote recognition of the new global realities that assert a multipolar system of relations between states.

The importance and role of the foreign ministers’ meetings in G20 activities is steadily growing. This format was launched in 2012. The key goal is to exchange views on current international issues and challenges. This year’s meeting will be concentrated on multilateralism, energy and food security, and international development. The agenda also includes counterterrorism, labour resources, humanitarian assistance and reduction of the impacts of natural disasters.

During the regular foreign ministers’ meeting we intend to firmly and openly talk about the reasons and instigators of the current serious problems in world politics and the global economy. We will focus on the attempts by the West to take revenge for the inevitable disappearance of the levers of dominance from its hands. We will also concentrate on its striving to continue receiving unilateral rent, in part, through unequal trade and violent interference in the affairs of sovereign states.

The destructive policy of the US and its allies has already put the world on the brink of a disaster, provoked a rollback in socio-economic development and seriously aggravated the situation of the poorest countries. The entire world is suffering from the cynical revelry of illegal sanctions, the artificial breakup of cross-border supply chains, the imposition of notorious price ceilings and, in effect, from attempts to steal natural resources.

The support structure of international law as a key regulator of interstate cooperation has been destroyed.

🌎 The Western leaders have made it abundantly clear by disavowing the Minsk agreements and their previous promises not to expand NATO, and by launching the harassment of not only Russia but also individual Russian citizens, Russian athletes and companies.

We are set to clearly state Russia’s assessments of the current security, energy and food situation. We will present an unbiased factual picture of the act of terrorism – the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the EU and NATO zone of responsibility, and the illegal seizing of Russian humanitarian fertiliser shipments designated for African and other needy countries.

We will draw attention to the destructive barriers that the West is multiplying exponentially to block the export of goods that are of critical importance to the global economy, including energy sources and agricultural products.

We will describe in detail Russia’s actions to reduce these threats and diversify foreign economic ties and logistics corridors. We will urge our constructive colleagues in the G20 to convert to national currencies, to align clearing and settlement mechanisms, and to create independent insurance plans and transport routes.

We will emphasise the extreme demand for the Russian initiative on the Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP) as an integration foundation for consolidating the potential of the EAEU, SCO, ASEAN and other concerned associations, and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.

We plan to advocate serious democratisation of global economic management institutions and expansion of the role of BRICS and other developing nations in making decisions within the Bretton-Woods structures and the WTO. We will support the African Union’s application for G20 permanent member status.

As part of the visit’s bilateral events, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will discuss ways to further advance cooperation in key areas, as well as coordinate the schedule of upcoming contacts. The main thematic blocks include trade, investment, transport and logistics cooperation, the use of national currencies in mutual settlements, and promising projects in the energy sector.

The ministers will exchange views on topical international matters, including interaction under India’s SCO chairmanship and G20 presidency, as well as coordination of approaches in the UN, BRICS and RIC. They will also touch on a number of regional topics, including the creation of security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, the current state of Afghanistan, and developments in Ukraine.

Sergey Lavrov will also take part in a session of the Raisina Dialogue international political conference held in the Indian capital on March 2-4.