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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the SCO Foreign Ministers Council meeting (Panaji, May 5, 2023)
#SCO
We have a common vision of problems persisting in the international arena. Our shared desire is to coordinate our actions at the #UN and on the Eurasian continent with such organisations as the #EAEU and #ASEAN, and more globally, to cooperate with the #BRICS countries.
Our colleagues from Central Asia are interested in promoting cooperation on information security and the fight against organised crime and drug trafficking in the SCO space. We think it is important to establish relevant divisions and let them be coordinated by the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure.
There is an understanding that the role of national currencies in settlements between SCO members should be increased. Practices currently taking shape within the Eurasian Development Bank, the Asian Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the BRICS New Development Bank could be used for this purpose.
#Afghanistan
Today, we came to terms on reaffirming the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group. This group exists, although it has been some time since it met. One of the reasons is the Taliban’s status. Thus far, it is not recognised “de jure.” We are expecting the Taliban leaders to fulfill their promises on forming an inclusive government not only in terms of ethnic groups but also by ensuring the presence of the entire spectrum of Afghanistan’s political forces. This has yet to be done.
There is convincing evidence to the effect that the US supports the terrorist groups entrenched in the territory of Afghanistan that are opposed to the Taliban, including the Islamic State, the Islamic Movement of East Turkestan, and Al-Qaeda. The Americans have not abandoned their attempts to reintroduce US military infrastructure in the region surrounding Afghanistan, in Central Asia.
Everyone is well aware of the serious threat inherent in these attempts. We will resolutely oppose them.
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#SCO
We have a common vision of problems persisting in the international arena. Our shared desire is to coordinate our actions at the #UN and on the Eurasian continent with such organisations as the #EAEU and #ASEAN, and more globally, to cooperate with the #BRICS countries.
Our colleagues from Central Asia are interested in promoting cooperation on information security and the fight against organised crime and drug trafficking in the SCO space. We think it is important to establish relevant divisions and let them be coordinated by the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure.
There is an understanding that the role of national currencies in settlements between SCO members should be increased. Practices currently taking shape within the Eurasian Development Bank, the Asian Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the BRICS New Development Bank could be used for this purpose.
#Afghanistan
Today, we came to terms on reaffirming the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group. This group exists, although it has been some time since it met. One of the reasons is the Taliban’s status. Thus far, it is not recognised “de jure.” We are expecting the Taliban leaders to fulfill their promises on forming an inclusive government not only in terms of ethnic groups but also by ensuring the presence of the entire spectrum of Afghanistan’s political forces. This has yet to be done.
There is convincing evidence to the effect that the US supports the terrorist groups entrenched in the territory of Afghanistan that are opposed to the Taliban, including the Islamic State, the Islamic Movement of East Turkestan, and Al-Qaeda. The Americans have not abandoned their attempts to reintroduce US military infrastructure in the region surrounding Afghanistan, in Central Asia.
Everyone is well aware of the serious threat inherent in these attempts. We will resolutely oppose them.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
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🌟 Happy #VictoryDay!
Today marks the 78th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism.
#LestWeForget
#Victory78 #VDay78 #May9
Today marks the 78th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism.
#LestWeForget
#Victory78 #VDay78 #May9
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🎬 Remembrance - an RT Doc. Film
Synopsis: When the Red Army approached Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, the survivors met their liberators with shouts of “the Russians have come.” The first words of Major Anatoly Shapiro, who was in command of the unit that entered the death camp, were: “The Red Army came to set you free.”
Surprisingly, nowadays, while on a tour of the notorious extermination camp, you would never hear Polish guides mention that exactly the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz. Instead, you would be told a big fat and deliberate lie: that World War II was started by Stalin, jointly with Hitler.
Today, Western countries are trying to rewrite history in order to point out that it is them who saved Europe from the Nazies. The truth about real contribution to the liberation of Europe by the Red Army is being wiped from Western history books. At the same time Soviet soldiers increasingly being portrayed as oppressors and occupiers rather than saviours.
However, back then the people caught amid the conflict were perfectly aware of the sacrifices the Soviet people and the Red Army made to beat the Nazis. Both Roosevelt and Churchill told Stalin “The US/UK understand that the Soviet Union is bearing the brunt of the war.”
Very few Westerners are aware what the Soviet Union had to endure and the might of the Nazi war machine it had to face and then crush. The Red Army faced over 75% of all Nazi Germany forces, its most experienced and brutal units, at the height of their power, dealing the decisive blow to break the Axis backbone. It took the never-seen-before devotion, ingenuity, strategy and tactics as well as united efforts of the entire Soviet nation. Although remembered with reverence, the Allies efforts on the ground pale in comparison: US military death toll in Europe amounted to some 300'000, while most of the Nazi forces were concentrated on the Eastern front.
👉 Watch the full film by RT Documentary
#UnabridgedTruth #WWII
#TheyForgotButWeRemember #LeastWeForget
🎬 Remembrance - an RT Doc. Film
Synopsis: When the Red Army approached Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, the survivors met their liberators with shouts of “the Russians have come.” The first words of Major Anatoly Shapiro, who was in command of the unit that entered the death camp, were: “The Red Army came to set you free.”
Surprisingly, nowadays, while on a tour of the notorious extermination camp, you would never hear Polish guides mention that exactly the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz. Instead, you would be told a big fat and deliberate lie: that World War II was started by Stalin, jointly with Hitler.
Today, Western countries are trying to rewrite history in order to point out that it is them who saved Europe from the Nazies. The truth about real contribution to the liberation of Europe by the Red Army is being wiped from Western history books. At the same time Soviet soldiers increasingly being portrayed as oppressors and occupiers rather than saviours.
However, back then the people caught amid the conflict were perfectly aware of the sacrifices the Soviet people and the Red Army made to beat the Nazis. Both Roosevelt and Churchill told Stalin “The US/UK understand that the Soviet Union is bearing the brunt of the war.”
Very few Westerners are aware what the Soviet Union had to endure and the might of the Nazi war machine it had to face and then crush. The Red Army faced over 75% of all Nazi Germany forces, its most experienced and brutal units, at the height of their power, dealing the decisive blow to break the Axis backbone. It took the never-seen-before devotion, ingenuity, strategy and tactics as well as united efforts of the entire Soviet nation. Although remembered with reverence, the Allies efforts on the ground pale in comparison: US military death toll in Europe amounted to some 300'000, while most of the Nazi forces were concentrated on the Eastern front.
👉 Watch the full film by RT Documentary
#UnabridgedTruth #WWII
#TheyForgotButWeRemember #LeastWeForget
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 What can be worse than an enemy? A traitor. This is who Zelensky is. He is the 21st century Judas.
By abolishing Victory Day on May 9, Zelensky betrayed his ancestors once and for all as well as all those who fought in the Red Army, those who suffered and were tortured to death in concentration camps, and those who worked on the home front for the sake of the Victory. Our common Victory - one for all.
Now he is a henchman of the Nazis 80 years later.
💬 What can be worse than an enemy? A traitor. This is who Zelensky is. He is the 21st century Judas.
By abolishing Victory Day on May 9, Zelensky betrayed his ancestors once and for all as well as all those who fought in the Red Army, those who suffered and were tortured to death in concentration camps, and those who worked on the home front for the sake of the Victory. Our common Victory - one for all.
Now he is a henchman of the Nazis 80 years later.
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📅 On May 9, 1945, at 12:43 am, the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was signed, ending the Great Patriotic War and World War II in Europe.
Following a successful assault on Berlin by the Red Army, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The title of Reich President and command of the armed forces of the Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz.
Desperate to surrender to the British-American troops, on May 5, German delegation arrived in the French city of Reims, where the headquarters of the Western Allies command was located.
📜 In the Article 4 of the Reims Instrument of Surrender of Nazi Germany stated that this document did not rule out the signing of another, definitive act at the request of one of the coalition members.
Thus, the document was recognised by the Soviet Union only as a preliminary instrument, and a new signing ceremony was proposed to be held in the capital of Nazi Germany, liberated by the Red Army - Berlin.
🕕 By midnight, all representatives and the press gathered in the hall where the signing ceremony of the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was to take place.
At 12:43 am, the ceremony ended.
🎙 On May 9, 1945, at 2:10 am Moscow time, announcer Yury Levitan read out the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declaring May 9 Victory Day. On the evening of May 9, Joseph Stalin addressed the Soviet people; after his address, Yury Levitan read out the order on the complete victory over Nazi Germany and on an artillery salute with thirty volleys from a thousand guns at 10:00 pm.
From that moment on, the Soviet Union and later Russia, as well as some former Soviet republics have celebrated Victory Day on May 9. On this date, we commemorate all those who defended Moscow, defeated the invaders at Stalingrad, broke through the siege of Leningrad, and liberated Belarus, Ukraine and Europe. These were the people who took Berlin at the cost of their lives.
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Following a successful assault on Berlin by the Red Army, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The title of Reich President and command of the armed forces of the Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz.
Desperate to surrender to the British-American troops, on May 5, German delegation arrived in the French city of Reims, where the headquarters of the Western Allies command was located.
📜 In the Article 4 of the Reims Instrument of Surrender of Nazi Germany stated that this document did not rule out the signing of another, definitive act at the request of one of the coalition members.
Thus, the document was recognised by the Soviet Union only as a preliminary instrument, and a new signing ceremony was proposed to be held in the capital of Nazi Germany, liberated by the Red Army - Berlin.
🕕 By midnight, all representatives and the press gathered in the hall where the signing ceremony of the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany was to take place.
At 12:43 am, the ceremony ended.
🎙 On May 9, 1945, at 2:10 am Moscow time, announcer Yury Levitan read out the Instrument of Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declaring May 9 Victory Day. On the evening of May 9, Joseph Stalin addressed the Soviet people; after his address, Yury Levitan read out the order on the complete victory over Nazi Germany and on an artillery salute with thirty volleys from a thousand guns at 10:00 pm.
From that moment on, the Soviet Union and later Russia, as well as some former Soviet republics have celebrated Victory Day on May 9. On this date, we commemorate all those who defended Moscow, defeated the invaders at Stalingrad, broke through the siege of Leningrad, and liberated Belarus, Ukraine and Europe. These were the people who took Berlin at the cost of their lives.
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📰🏅 Read the article of the Russian Embassy in the Philippines devoted to the 78th Anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism - "Victory Day: History matters" 👇
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/05/09/victory-day-history-matters/
#Victory78 #May9
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/05/09/victory-day-history-matters/
#Victory78 #May9
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Victory Day: History matters | Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of the Philippines
ON May 9, Russia celebrates one of its most significant national holidays—Day of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War—an integral part of the Second World War (WWII) of 1939-1945. It began at dawn on June 22, 1941, when Nazi Germany, violating the Soviet…
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🔴#LIVE from the #RedSquare: Military parade marking the 78th Anniversary of the #Victory in the #GreatPatrioticWar.
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202305090300-live14219-military-vehicles-roll-into-moscow-ahead-of-victory-day-parade
#Victory78 #Parade
🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202305090300-live14219-military-vehicles-roll-into-moscow-ahead-of-victory-day-parade
#Victory78 #Parade
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Vladimir Putin attended the parade marking the 78th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
"For us, for Russia, there are no unfriendly or hostile nations either in the west or in the east. Like the vast majority of people on the planet, we want to see a peaceful, free and stable future," the President said.
"For us, for Russia, there are no unfriendly or hostile nations either in the west or in the east. Like the vast majority of people on the planet, we want to see a peaceful, free and stable future," the President said.
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Following the Victory Parade on Red Square, the President laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden
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🌟 President of Russia – Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 78th Anniversary of Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War.
💬 Today, our civilisation is at a crucial turning point. A real war is being waged against our country again but we have countered international terrorism and will defend the people of Donbass and safeguard our security.
For us, for Russia, there are no unfriendly or hostile peoples either in the west or in the east. Just like the vast majority of people on the planet, we want to see a peaceful, free and stable future.
We believe that any ideology of superiority is abhorrent, criminal and deadly by its nature.
The Western globalist elites keep speaking about their exceptionalism, pit nations against each other and split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism, destroy family and traditional values which make us human.
<...>
Their goal – and there is nothing new about it – is to break apart and destroy our country, to make null and void the outcomes of World War II, to completely break down the system of global security and international law, to choke off any sovereign centres of development.
Boundless ambition, arrogance and impunity inevitably lead to tragedies. This is the reason for the catastrophe the Ukrainian people are going through. They have become hostage to the coup d’état and the resulting criminal regime of its Western masters, collateral damage in the implementation of their cruel and self-serving plans.
<...>
❗️ I strongly believe that the experience of solidarity and partnership during the years of fighting a common threat is our invaluable heritage and a secure foothold now when the unstoppable movement is gaining momentum towards a more just multipolar world, a world based on the principles of trust and indivisible security, of equal opportunities for a genuine and free development of all nations and peoples.
💬 Today, our civilisation is at a crucial turning point. A real war is being waged against our country again but we have countered international terrorism and will defend the people of Donbass and safeguard our security.
For us, for Russia, there are no unfriendly or hostile peoples either in the west or in the east. Just like the vast majority of people on the planet, we want to see a peaceful, free and stable future.
We believe that any ideology of superiority is abhorrent, criminal and deadly by its nature.
The Western globalist elites keep speaking about their exceptionalism, pit nations against each other and split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism, destroy family and traditional values which make us human.
<...>
Their goal – and there is nothing new about it – is to break apart and destroy our country, to make null and void the outcomes of World War II, to completely break down the system of global security and international law, to choke off any sovereign centres of development.
Boundless ambition, arrogance and impunity inevitably lead to tragedies. This is the reason for the catastrophe the Ukrainian people are going through. They have become hostage to the coup d’état and the resulting criminal regime of its Western masters, collateral damage in the implementation of their cruel and self-serving plans.
<...>
❗️ I strongly believe that the experience of solidarity and partnership during the years of fighting a common threat is our invaluable heritage and a secure foothold now when the unstoppable movement is gaining momentum towards a more just multipolar world, a world based on the principles of trust and indivisible security, of equal opportunities for a genuine and free development of all nations and peoples.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry referred to the presence of CIS leaders at the parade in Moscow as “an immoral and unfriendly step towards Kiev.”
Well, first of all, no one asked the Nazis for their opinion.
Second, let us talk about the notion of morality.
UNIAN, a Ukrainian state news agency, decided to poll its readers, asking them who among Russia’s prominent television presenters, frontline correspondents and opinion leaders they would prefer to see follow in Daria Dugina’s, Vladlen Tatarsky’s and Zakhar Prilepin’s footsteps as terrorist attack victims.
This is exactly the way they framed the question.
The terrorist Kiev regime wants its media to match its inhumane nature.
Vladimir Solovyov, Margarita Simonyan, Anton Krasovsky, Dmitry Kiselev, Sergei Mardan and Semyov Pegov all made the execution list. What a bloody undertaking, but for Kiev, this is business as usual.
Nearly 50,000 people have taken part in the poll so far. Judging by the number of likes and hearts under the post in question, ordinary Ukrainians, indoctrinated as they are by thermonuclear Nazi propaganda, are receptive to terrorist ideology which has all the signs of a criminal offence.
Do you think there was anyone among the patrons of the Kiev puppet show intervened to bring their underlings back to reason? Or perhaps the specialised international structures voiced their indignation? Not at all.
They had other things in mind when they nurtured this enraged rabble. Yet another American son of a gun will get away with everything, even direct incitement to carrying out a terrorist attack, as in this case.
The Third Reich was proactive in drawing up watchlists and designating enemies among artists, cultural figures, researchers and politicians whose elimination was viewed as a priority. The Kiev regime went even further by engaging society at large not only in its smear campaigns and Nazi segregation, but by making them directly involved in terrorist activity. Well, it's a fact now: the student has surpassed the master.
💬 Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry referred to the presence of CIS leaders at the parade in Moscow as “an immoral and unfriendly step towards Kiev.”
Well, first of all, no one asked the Nazis for their opinion.
Second, let us talk about the notion of morality.
UNIAN, a Ukrainian state news agency, decided to poll its readers, asking them who among Russia’s prominent television presenters, frontline correspondents and opinion leaders they would prefer to see follow in Daria Dugina’s, Vladlen Tatarsky’s and Zakhar Prilepin’s footsteps as terrorist attack victims.
This is exactly the way they framed the question.
The terrorist Kiev regime wants its media to match its inhumane nature.
Vladimir Solovyov, Margarita Simonyan, Anton Krasovsky, Dmitry Kiselev, Sergei Mardan and Semyov Pegov all made the execution list. What a bloody undertaking, but for Kiev, this is business as usual.
Nearly 50,000 people have taken part in the poll so far. Judging by the number of likes and hearts under the post in question, ordinary Ukrainians, indoctrinated as they are by thermonuclear Nazi propaganda, are receptive to terrorist ideology which has all the signs of a criminal offence.
Do you think there was anyone among the patrons of the Kiev puppet show intervened to bring their underlings back to reason? Or perhaps the specialised international structures voiced their indignation? Not at all.
They had other things in mind when they nurtured this enraged rabble. Yet another American son of a gun will get away with everything, even direct incitement to carrying out a terrorist attack, as in this case.
The Third Reich was proactive in drawing up watchlists and designating enemies among artists, cultural figures, researchers and politicians whose elimination was viewed as a priority. The Kiev regime went even further by engaging society at large not only in its smear campaigns and Nazi segregation, but by making them directly involved in terrorist activity. Well, it's a fact now: the student has surpassed the master.
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🕯💐 Following the #VictoryParade on Red Square, Vladimir Putin, together with the Heads of foreign states who had arrived for the celebration of the 78th Anniversary of Victory − Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev − laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden and paid tribute to the fallen with a minute of silence
🇷🇺🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿 #WeRemember
🇷🇺🇦🇲🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿 #WeRemember
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic Faisal Mekdad and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Türkiye Mevlut Cavusoglu
📍 Moscow, May 10, 2023
💬 In itself, the launch of the process of Türkiye-Syria normalisation involving all three countries that are guarantors of the Astana Format, proving its viability, exerts a noticeable positive influence not only on the situation around Syria but on the overall atmosphere throughout the Middle East.
Our efforts added momentum to the process of restoring ties between Damascus and its regional neighbours, including Arab states. In this situation, new prospects and opportunities are opening up before the Astana Format.
An agreement to instruct experts to draft a roadmap for bringing the Syria-Türkiye relations back to normal so that we can review it at the next ministerial meeting could become an optimal outcome of our current conversation, unless you have any objections. We would subsequently present this roadmap to the heads of our states.
All of us are interested in restoring neighbourly relations between Syria and Türkiye as soon as possible on an equitable and mutually beneficial basis.
We assume that any gross interference in regional affairs, particularly using military force, as well as the deployment of foreign military contingents on Syrian territory, are unacceptable.
❗️ According to our sources, the Americans have started establishing the Free Syrian Army near Raqqa, Syria, with the involvement of representatives of local Arab tribes, as well as fighters from ISIS and other terrorist organisations. Their goal is obvious: they want to use these fighters against the legitimate authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic to destabilise the situation in the country.
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📍 Moscow, May 10, 2023
💬 In itself, the launch of the process of Türkiye-Syria normalisation involving all three countries that are guarantors of the Astana Format, proving its viability, exerts a noticeable positive influence not only on the situation around Syria but on the overall atmosphere throughout the Middle East.
Our efforts added momentum to the process of restoring ties between Damascus and its regional neighbours, including Arab states. In this situation, new prospects and opportunities are opening up before the Astana Format.
An agreement to instruct experts to draft a roadmap for bringing the Syria-Türkiye relations back to normal so that we can review it at the next ministerial meeting could become an optimal outcome of our current conversation, unless you have any objections. We would subsequently present this roadmap to the heads of our states.
All of us are interested in restoring neighbourly relations between Syria and Türkiye as soon as possible on an equitable and mutually beneficial basis.
We assume that any gross interference in regional affairs, particularly using military force, as well as the deployment of foreign military contingents on Syrian territory, are unacceptable.
❗️ According to our sources, the Americans have started establishing the Free Syrian Army near Raqqa, Syria, with the involvement of representatives of local Arab tribes, as well as fighters from ISIS and other terrorist organisations. Their goal is obvious: they want to use these fighters against the legitimate authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic to destabilise the situation in the country.
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🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s answer to a media question on launching the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)
❓ Question: Today, the President of the Russian Federation signed a directive on your appointment as his representative at the review of the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) by both chambers of the Federal Assembly. This suggests the conclusion that Russia will soon withdraw from this treaty. Why did Russia take such a step now? After all, it suspended this treaty many years ago.
💬 Sergey Ryabkov: This issue is long overdue. The treaty was signed in 1990 and entered in force in 1992. It has become desperately obsolete. The agreement on adaptation drafted at Russia’s insistence and signed in 1999 has become invalid due to the destructive position of the US and other NATO members.
he NATO countries were de facto obviating the treaty by moving eastward. This is why we had to suspend it in 2007. That said, we left the door open, giving the Western countries an opportunity to reconsider their attitude to the treaty and show common sense. But there was little common sense in the West even at that time and the situation did not improve.
Recently, Helsinki and Stockholm applied for NATO membership. Finland joined NATO and signed an agreement with the US, which created a foundation for deploying American troops on Finnish territory. These events have substantially worsened the military-political situation in Europe. Under the circumstances, the CFE Treaty has finally become a vestige of the past.
☝️ Hence, the President of Russia made a decision to submit a draft law on denunciation of the treaty to the Federal Assembly. <...> Apparently, it is time to take such measures.
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❓ Question: Today, the President of the Russian Federation signed a directive on your appointment as his representative at the review of the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) by both chambers of the Federal Assembly. This suggests the conclusion that Russia will soon withdraw from this treaty. Why did Russia take such a step now? After all, it suspended this treaty many years ago.
💬 Sergey Ryabkov: This issue is long overdue. The treaty was signed in 1990 and entered in force in 1992. It has become desperately obsolete. The agreement on adaptation drafted at Russia’s insistence and signed in 1999 has become invalid due to the destructive position of the US and other NATO members.
he NATO countries were de facto obviating the treaty by moving eastward. This is why we had to suspend it in 2007. That said, we left the door open, giving the Western countries an opportunity to reconsider their attitude to the treaty and show common sense. But there was little common sense in the West even at that time and the situation did not improve.
Recently, Helsinki and Stockholm applied for NATO membership. Finland joined NATO and signed an agreement with the US, which created a foundation for deploying American troops on Finnish territory. These events have substantially worsened the military-political situation in Europe. Under the circumstances, the CFE Treaty has finally become a vestige of the past.
☝️ Hence, the President of Russia made a decision to submit a draft law on denunciation of the treaty to the Federal Assembly. <...> Apparently, it is time to take such measures.
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