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2023-03-03 17:01:33 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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2023-03-03 16:30:21 The Western notion of a "rules-based" world order is indefensible, because its leading proponents continuously twist basic principles on international law, like self-determination of peoples, to conform to their narrow interests, while denying the same to others. Open / Comment

2023-03-03 15:08:52 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. Open / Comment

2023-03-03 14:02:10 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting

New Delhi, March 2, 2023

It was agreed that from now on the African Union will be a full-fledged member of the G20, just as the EU that has been working in this capacity for several years now.

We reaffirmed Russia’s position on the importance of this by expanding the representation of the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

All multilateral institutions are being tested for compliance with the new geopolitical realities. Given the new circumstances, the associations (this includes the UN and the G20 alike) which act as platforms to find a balance of interests rather than to present their approaches or to make claims to justify their alleged entitlement to hegemony, will remain in high demand.

Like any document adopted by the entire international community, the UN Charter cannot be fulfilled selectively. It is not a menu to choose from.

The West continues to advance its interests by other means and methods in the new environment without taking into account the opinion of the vast majority of the world community. Developing countries see it all perfectly well.

We always support the right of any country to choose its own priorities. We don’t just proceed from understanding, but we know that our neighbours, partners and allies in the CSTO, the EAEU and the CIS confirm, in all of their contacts, their commitment to the obligations assumed in these integration structures.

We will continue fighting for justice for the Ukrainian people, protect the interests of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, and ensure the interests of the Ukrainian republics and regions that spoke out at the referendum in favour of reuniting with the Russian Federation.

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2023-03-03 13:27:47 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova regarding State Secretary Anthony Blinken's remarks on "on the go" encounter with Foreign Minister Lavrov "on the sidelines" of the G20 Ministerial:

Oh, how interesting.

I asked Mr Lavrov if Blinken brought up the issue of Whelan yesterday.

It turns out that the US Secretary of State did not even mention the matter. Everything the Department of State said yesterday about Blinken expressing concern about the US citizen’s situation was a lie.

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2023-03-03 09:36:46 #LIVE: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at the «Raisina Dialogue» conference in New Delhi

https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202303030630-live13567-lavrov-participates-in-raisina-dialogue-in-new-delhi

https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1631545534602256385

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2023-03-03 09:22:34 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan.

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2023-03-02 23:15:01 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a plenary meeting of the G20 Ministerial Council on multilateralism, global economy and development

New Delhi, March 2, 2023

We stand in solidarity with New Delhi’s call to build a common future for humanity, which is especially important in the context of growing geopolitical confrontation. We share the practical objectives of strengthening multilateralism and overcoming global economic crises set during India’s Presidency.

I would like to apologise to the Presidency and our colleagues from the Global South for the improper behaviour of a number of Western delegations, which turned the discussion on the G20 agenda into a travesty in an attempt to shift their responsibility for failures in economic policy to others, primarily Russia.

The formation of a polycentric world calls for recognising civilisational diversity and mutual respect for interests. It is imperative to stop being guided by the flawed logic of domination, diktat and sanctions. We welcome the rise of new centres of influence in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

We will strive to democratise economic management. We support the African Union’s G20 membership. We advocate for increasing the role of the developing economies at the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO and eliminating the Western monopoly in environmental and human rights organisations.

It’s time to stop playing the food card. Today, the bulk of grain supplies from Ukraine are being shipped at giveaway fodder prices to the EU, rather than to the poorest countries that need them. Without any scruples, the West is burying the UN Secretary-General’s well-known humanitarian initiative.

We will continue to make a major contribution to ensuring economic stability. We are open to an equitable dialogue at the G20. We hope that the Delhi summit in September will at least mitigate the risks created by the self-serving Western policies.

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2023-03-02 22:05:18 Thanks to the exceptional dedication and professionalism of Russian authorities and officials the rotation of the IAEA experts to and from the Zaporozhskaya NPP took place successfully on March 2, 2023 in spite of particularly challenging circumstances Open / Comment

2023-03-02 21:00:02 Statement by Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council:

A number of States are seeking to benefit from the growing global crisis, the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic, as well as natural disasters by exerting pressure on the struggling countries, trying to impose their perception of human rights. Thus, these "standards of democracy" neglect the historical, cultural and religious peculiarities of other nations, attempting to integrate them into their ideology of a "rules-based world order".

The illegal practice of unilateral coersive measures, which primarily strike at the well-being of ordinary people, is used as an instrument of this policy. The goal is not to protect human rights "at home and around the world", but to punish undesirable governments and undermine domestic political stability in sovereign states in pursuit of their own opportunistic and geopolitical interests.

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