@RusEmbMalta Press release:
🎙️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov's interview to the newspaper "Arguments and Facts" (October 21, 2024)
Key points:
🔹BRICS epitomises the shifts that have long been underway in the global economy. New centres of economic growth are emerging, and alongside them comes financial influence, which in turn brings political influence.
🔹BRICS is a consortium where no single nation leads or is led, devoid of the bureaucratic machinery akin to that observed in Brussels, where EU officials impose decisions that contravene the will and interests of several member states.
🔹 Nations such as India, Brazil, and African representatives should have long held permanent seats on the Security Council. This is essential to ensure representation of the World Majority.
🔹 We suggest discussing the Eurasian continent-wide security architecture, emphasising the fact that its doors will be open to everyone.
Read in full here.
#BRICS2024#EurasianSecurity
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🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Plenary Session of the XVI BRICS Summit in the BRICS Plus/Outreach format(Kazan, October 24, 2024)
👉 In full
💬Vladimir Putin: I am delighted to welcome all of you to the BRICS Plus/Outreach-format meeting. This inclusive platform has proven its worth by enabling the BRICS group participants to engage in a direct and open dialogue with their friends and partners. <...>
According to our agenda, we will discuss the most pressing issues the international community is facing today, including sustainable development, eradication of poverty, climate change adaptation, exchanging technology and knowledge, fighting terrorism and transborder crime.
We will focus particularly on the peaceful resolution of conflicts, certainly including a serious discussion of the deteriorating situation in the Middle East.
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#MultipolarWorld
🌐 All our countries share similar aspirations, values and a vision of a new democratic world order that reflects cultural and civilisational diversity. We are confident that such a system should be guided by the universal principles of respect for the legitimate interests and sovereign choice of nations, respect for international law and a spirit of mutually beneficial, honest co-operation.
☝️ The transition to a more just international system is not easy. Its development is being hampered by forces whose thinking and actions continue to be aimed at dominating everything and everyone. Under the guise of a rule-based order they are imposing on the world, they are actually attempting to contain growing competition and prevent the independent development of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America that they cannot control.
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#MiddleEast
The current round of the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation is probably one of the most sanguinary in the long list of conflicts. Over 40,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the ongoing hostilities in the Gaza Strip. I would like to emphasise that we have always come out against the use of terrorist methods. <...>
Since the start of the escalation, we have joined forces with our BRICS and other partners to contribute to a settlement. <...>
I would like to repeat that the main condition for restoring peace and stability in the Palestinian territories is the realisation of the two-state formula approved by the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.
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#EurasianSecurity
The countries represented in this room have immense opportunities and resources at their disposal and play a prominent role on the international stage. They have been using their standing to enhance global security and promote sustainable development around the world. <...>
Russia advocated the idea of creating an inclusive system of equitable and indivisible security for Eurasia free from any discrimination.
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#UnitedNations
🇺🇳 The UN must retain its central role in efforts to maintain peace and security and facilitate sustainable and steady development.
To ensure the effective functioning of the UN in the future, we believe it is important to adapt its structures to the realities of the 21st century, expanding the representation of countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, including those whose leaders are present here, in the Security Council and other key international bodies.
An effort to reform UN development institutions and global financial structures has long been overdue. <...>
The founding fathers of the United Nations believed that its purpose was to enable nations to come together and agree on joint actions.
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❗️Russia, like all BRICS countries, is open to cooperation with all countries of the Global South and East to promote inclusive and sustainable development and ultimately build a better world.
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🛬 October 23 in photos: Heads of Delegations arrive in Kazan to take part in the BRICS Summit and BRICS Plus / Outreach meetings.
Welcome!
🇹🇷 President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan
🇦🇿 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
🇰🇬 President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov
🇹🇯 President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon
🇺🇿 President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev
🇹🇲 President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov
🇻🇳 Prime Minister of VietnamPham Minh Chính
🇸🇦 Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud
🇹🇭 Foreign Minister of Thailand Maris Sangiampongsa
🇧🇭 Foreign Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani
📸BRICS Summit Photo Gallery
#BRICS2024
🛬 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Kazan. He was warmly welcomed at the airport, in accordance with long-standing Russian and Tatar traditions. As a guest of honour, the Secretary-General was treated to the famous Russian bread and salt.
📸BRICS Summit Photo Gallery
🛬 Leaders and Heads of Delegations arrive in Kazan to participate in the #BRICS2024 Summit!
Footage shows the welcoming ceremonies for 🇨🇬 President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, 🇮🇩Foreign Minister of Indonesia Sugiono, 🇨🇺 Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla,🇧🇴 Foreign Minister of Bolivia Celinda Sosa Lunda,🇳🇮 Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Valdrack Jaentschke.
📸BRICS Summit Photo Bank
🤝 Russia's President Vladimir Putin and President of the BRICS New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff met on the sidelines of the #BRICS2024 Summit.
📍Kazan, October 22, 2024
🛬 Leaders and Heads of Delegations of the #BRICS2024 Summit countries continue to arrive in Kazan!
Footage shows the greeting ceremonies for Indian Prime Minister 🇮🇳Narendra Modi, South African President 🇿🇦Cyril Ramaphosa, Ethiopian Prime Minister 🇪🇹Abiy Ahmed Ali, Brazilian Foreign Minister 🇧🇷Mauro Vieira.
Welcome!
📸BRICS Summit Photo Bank
⚡️ Foreign delegations of the BRICS nations and like-minded states are arriving in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, ahead of the BRICS Ministerial (June 10-11).
Guests are greeted in the most cordial manner and, as per ancient Russian tradition, are welcomed as dear friends, with 'bread and salt'.
#BRICS2024
💬#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.