Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the first Plenary Session of G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting.

📍 New Delhi, March 2

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⚡️ Russian FM Sergey Lavrov Begins Press Conference in Delhi after G20FMM

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📍 New Delhi, March 2

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❗ 🇷🇺FM Lavrov meets with 🇮🇳PM Modi on Sidelines of G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meet in New Delhi

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

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🎙 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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