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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey #Lavrov's remarks at the General Debate of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly
(New York, September 28, 2024)
In total, Russian delegation attended seven multilateral events and had 28 rounds of bilateral meetings. During these meetings, we covered all the key aspects of Russia’s relationships with the respective states, and reviewed the progress on implementing the agreements between our leaders regarding bilateral and regional affairs.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the High-Level Week of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
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💬#LAVROV: We are successfully developing relations with a whole range of countries and regional organisations in Africa, Asia (in particular, ASEAN) and Latin America. The overwhelming majority of the countries, obviously, does not support the attempts we have seen in the past years to secure the dominance of the United States and its Western allies on the international arena through force, illegitimate sanctions, ultimatums, blackmail and threats. Nobody likes it.
🔹 I believe that the historical process has already handed down the verdict. Yes, it will be a long historical era of establishing genuine multi-polarity. The West will put up serious resistance. We can already see it.
🔹 Our Western colleagues are demanding that the developing countries across all continents join the anti-Russia sanctions and break off contacts with Russia. These attempts are futile. Aside from votes in a number of international organisations, achieved by dishonest means, these vain attempts of our Western colleagues have not been able to take any tangible shape.
🔹From now on, we will proceed from this realisation as we build our foreign policy, relying only on the partnerships that have proven to be with people who are capable of negotiating, keeping their word and not trying to benefit from infringing on the interests of others.
🔹Our motto is the balance of interests. This balance is the core of our foreign policy. It is the only approach that has prospects in international affairs.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov: We are interested in developing relations not only through bilateral channels, but also with regional structures: GCC, Arab League, #ASEAN, African Union, CELAC.
🇺🇳🗺When the UNSC Goes Against Logic and Justice
The latest debate in the United Nations Security Council over the Middle East conflict has exposed deep divisions among major powers about how to interpret the ongoing escalation. While most members supported a resolution condemning attacks on Gulf states, several countries argued that the document ignored the broader context of the conflict and therefore risked worsening diplomatic tensions
✍️Veniamin Popov
is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and a PhD in History
➡️On March 11, 2026, the United Nations Security Council adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 2817, which condemned missile and drone strikes targeting several Gulf monarchies and Jordan. The resolution, submitted by Bahrain on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council, called on Iran to immediately halt attacks and provocations against neighboring states. It also warned about the risks posed to international maritime navigation and global energy supplies if instability in the Persian Gulf were to intensify further. Thirteen members of the Security Council supported the document, while Russia and China chose to abstain from the vote.
the position of Moscow and Beijing was ignored, and the refusal to include a call for a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict in the draft is particularly disappointing
➡️Representatives from Moscow and Beijing argued that the resolution did not sufficiently address the broader causes of the crisis. Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya stated that the document failed to acknowledge the military actions carried out by the United States and Israel against Iran, which Moscow considers one of the key triggers of the escalation. China’s envoy to the UN, Fu Cong, also criticized the text for not including a clear call for de-escalation by all parties. Both diplomats emphasized that attacks on civilian infrastructure are unacceptable regardless of where they occur, stressing that the resolution’s wording risked presenting the situation as a one-sided confrontation.
🟦The diplomatic dispute continued when Russia introduced an alternative draft resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities and negotiations without assigning direct blame to any side. That proposal received support from Pakistan and Somalia but failed to gain sufficient backing within the Security Council. For critics of the adopted resolution, the episode reflects the difficulty the UN faces in managing highly polarized conflicts where geopolitical interests collide. Without a consensus approach that addresses both immediate violence and its underlying causes, observers warn that diplomatic initiatives risk becoming instruments of political positioning rather than effective mechanisms for restoring stability.
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⚡️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for a documentary titled "The UN from the 20th to the 21st Century" (Moscow, September 25, 2024)
Key points:
• Less than a year after the victorious powers established the UN based on the noble principles formulated in its charter, it became clear that the West, acting contrary to these principles, intended to launch a war against the Soviet Union, and not merely a cold war but an all-out war. These plans hatched by the then "Anglo-Saxons" [nations of the Anglosphere led by the US & UK] have long become public knowledge.
• Once NATO was created, the Soviet Union circulated a large document which demonstrated the detrimental effect of that and the danger of building walls between the East and the West, especially in Europe, and called for respecting the #UNCharter and for working towards this. Our call was not heeded.
✊ However, we kept fighting for justice and the implementation of the principle of sovereign equality of nations. Decolonisation was a bright stage and a major embodiment of that principle. The Soviet Union was the main initiator of the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Following its adoption, the number of UN states increased by 80-90 members.
• They tell us that the main goal today is to ensure the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It is a misleading interpretation of the UN Charter, where the right of nations to self-determination is put before territorial integrity.
• Even before demanding respect for territorial integrity, the UN Charter demands respect for human rights without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion <…> Now that Zelensky’s Nazi regime, which the West nurtured, has banned both the language and religious rights of a large number of its own population, the West has put away the banners it was waving for decades.
❗️The top priority now is to ensure the achievement of the initial goals and principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and as a whole, rather than selectively or occasionally.
• The reform of the UN Security Council is not a one-off event. It’s a process which has been ongoing since the time the United Nations came into being <...> Nevertheless, it relies on principles that must be preserved at all costs. The main principle is that the Security Council reform should be based on a broad-based agreement among states. It does not say “consensus,” but it does state “broad-based agreement among states.”
🌍🇮🇳🇧🇷 We have invariably supported the legitimate aspirations of India and Brazil to secure permanent seats in the Security Council. However, African aspirations must be met as well. Africa has common collective positions, which we respect. And we would have like that.
• Our position implies providing additional seats for Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We are open to some of these seats being permanent, but we need to achieve general agreement before we can move forward. It is a complicated process. I don’t see any chance for bringing this process to a swift and expedited completion any time soon.
• Since the UN was created, there has never been a time, a region, or a situation that involved the United States in one way or another, where the country would actually respect that principle. Every time, everywhere they acted as a hegemon, or like a "bull in a china shop".
• When they wanted to punish Russia, the West abandoned all the principles which it was feeding to us and which it declared sacred. The same is happening to the principles of the UN Charter. The West is trampling and destroying them without a moment’s hesitation.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Minister of China Qin Gang hold talks "on the sidelines" of the SCO Ministerial
📍 Panaji (Goa), May 4, 2023
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🔴#LIVE: #Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov's press conference following the Plenary Session of G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting
📍 New Delhi, March 2
🔗https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202303011210-LIVE13560-Lavrov-holds-press-conference-in-New-Delhi
🔗https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video