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2023-03-02 07:35:01 Indian Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar greets Sergey Lavrov, who arrived at the meeting of the at the #G20 FM Ministerial Open / Comment

2023-03-02 07:03:15 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives at the #G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting

New Delhi, March 2

Maria Zakharova Open / Comment

2022-11-29 16:02:51 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the film, Nazism on Trial (Moscow, November 26, 2022)

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Nothing would have happened without external forces, neither glorification of the Nazis, or the transformation of Nazism into the current Ukrainian government’s theory and practice.

We wanted to see Ukraine a good neighbour of ours and a reliable friend. The Americans sought to achieve the opposite outcome and to make Ukraine “anti-Russia.”

Talk at the OSCE in the late 1990s about the need to build a security space, spanning the entire Eurasian continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, turned out to be just that, empty talk. Behind these beautiful words, what the West really means was “either you’re with us or you’re with Russia.”

We are fighting neo-Nazis, rather than the people of Ukraine, and we have nothing against the latter. This nation is closely related to us, we are intertwined at the level of human destinies.

European leaders are emboldening the Ukrainian government and encouraging neo-Nazi acts. I operate on the premise that Europe is part of the processes that seek to revive neo-Nazism.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made it clear that she is aware of German voters’ issues, but it is now “more important” to meet Ukraine's needs for military help. With a philosophy like that, Europe… Well, I wish it good luck. Open / Comment

2022-11-29 10:40:14 #Opinion by Maria Zakharova

The recently held UN Conference on Climate Change (COP27) in Egypt which went down in history for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s meetings with Emmanuel Macron and John Kerry highlighted another trend and in an unseemly light, too.

It turns out (for the umpteenth time?) that, by and large, no one in the West cares about the climate.

Take Sweden, for example. Throughout its most recent history, Stockholm has seen itself as a forerunner on the environmental front. As you may know, it was elected non-permanent member of the UN Security Council only after it gave a promise to the small countries that it would use every avenue to prevent the melting of glaciers, to cut CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and to stop the world ocean levels from rising.

Swedish Minister for Climate and the Environment Romina Pourmokhtari stated right during the environmental forum in Egypt that Sweden would no longer engage in efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. On the contrary, the researchers are saying that two years from now the country’s carbon dioxide emissions will be up meaning that glaciers will continue to melt, ocean levels will rise, and island nations will remain at risk of floods. To reiterate, Sweden has made a U-turn on climate agenda matters.

Speaking of forum priorities, in particular, the establishment of a Developing Countries Aid Fund (which hoped for Stockholm’s help four years ago), it turned out that Swedish taxpayers will not be funding it with their hard-earned crowns. After all, it is not about weapons for Ukraine, for which, according to the Kingdom’s elite, the Swedes are eager to pay out of their pockets.

Western values are as fickle as the weather and change daily. Open / Comment

2022-11-29 00:58:40 33rd session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Program for the Development of Communication
was marred by the fact that France as UNESCO host country did not properly discharge its obligations - it did not issue visas in a timely manner to two Russian diplomats who were to attend the session

Situation around the freedom of speech and safety of journalists in the world has been deteriorating. The rights of Russian journalists have been massively violated

We are alarmed that UNESCO Secretariat has been maintaining deafening silence about the killing of Russian journalist Daria Dugina.

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2022-11-28 20:48:34 Ambassador Gennady Gatilov at the Ninth Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) Review Conference:

Russia, as a depositary State of the BTWC, consistently implements all its provisions.

The Russian Federation for a long time has been openly expressing criticism and concern over military and biological activities carried out with the direct assistance and participation of the US military in laboratories outside the US, including former Soviet Republics, far from the North American continent and close to Russia's borders.

At the Consultative Meeting of States Parties to the BTWC on its Article V, Washington and Kiev failed to provide comprehensive answers to the legitimate questions we posed.

Russia is convinced that the effectiveness of the Convention would be greatly improved in the case of the adoption of a universal, legally binding, non‑discriminatory protocol, relating to all Articles of the Convention and involving an effective verification mechanism.

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2022-11-28 16:00:51 On November 28, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania celebrates Independence Day!

On this day in 1960, #Mauritania achieved independence from France following a largely peaceful resistance to the colonial rule. It became a member of the United Nations in October 1961.

After gaining freedom, Mauritania declared commitment to the policy of neutrality and supported the national liberation struggle of the peoples of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau against the western colonisers.

The diplomatic relations between our country and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania were established on July 12, 1964, and bilateral cooperation has been steadily developing ever since.

We congratulate our Mauritanian friends and colleagues on their national holiday and wish them peace and prosperity!

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2022-11-28 15:27:02 Statement by #CSTO Foreign Ministers on countering global drug threat

We, member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation:

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Vehemently oppose the revision or slackening of the current international drug control system and legalisation of the consumption of any narcotic drugs for non-medical purposes;

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Reaffirm our intention to continue promoting practical anti-drug cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combatting Illicit Drug Trafficking, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors and to develop cooperation with interested states as well as regional and international agencies in order to draft collective responses to the global drug threat;

Express willingness to coordinate positions on drug-related issues in the respective bodies of the UN and other international and regional structures.

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2022-11-28 14:18:31 Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan

Showing solidarity, we express our disagreement with the unprecedented decision of the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, which has made it impossible for the delegation of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs to take part in the 29th OSCE Ministerial Council meeting.

We note that such actions violate the norms of the OSCE, the Rules of Procedure and decisions of its decision-making authorities, in particular, the decision of the 2002 OSCE Ministerial Council in Porto on the role of the Chairmanship-in-Office, which states that it must keep its actions consistent with stances agreed upon by all member states and take into account the full scope of member states’ opinions.

We state that in infringing on the rights of the Russian delegation, the Polish Chairmanship-in-Office has failed to fulfil its obligations to the OSCE, currently the most representative pan-European organisation for security and cooperation.

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We express our disagreement with the decision by the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office not to send an invitation to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to participate in the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting, in violation of the long-standing practice.

We urge the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office to ensure equal and inclusive representation of all OSCE member states without exception, and call on future chairmanships in OSCE institutions and structures to take a constructive approach to their function and ensure that all member states of the organisation observe their mandates and the practice of achieving the goals of dialogue and cooperation for the benefit of all OSCE member states.

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2022-11-27 20:46:00 In Memoriam Vladimir Makei

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