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🔴#LIVE: Press Conference by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Vershinin on the outcomes of the participation of the Russian delegation in the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly 🔴Ruptly 🔴Russia's MFA Website #UNGA79

@RusEmbMalta PRESS RELEASE 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. Read in full here: 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. #UNSC#UNGA79

🎙 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov's remarksat the General Debate of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly 📍New York, September 28, 2024 💬 A few days ago, this building hosted a forum called the Summit of the Future. Russia was supportive of the idea of the Secretary-General to convene it, since the crisis of our Organisation is deepening and something needs to be done about this. We devoted our efforts to preparing the summit. However, we were realistic in our expectations. There have been many ambitious events in the modern history of the United Nations which ended up with loud declarations which were soon forgotten. <...> The current UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, just like Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon before him, has put forward an initiative under the slogan of a new start for global cooperation. This is a wonderful idea. Who could disagree? But what global cooperation is there to talk about, when the West has trampled all those unshakeable values of the globalisation that speakers on the podium talked so much about, trying to convince us that they would give everyone equal access to the goods of modern civilisation? Where is the inviolability of property, the presumption of innocence, freedom of expression, access to information, fair competition in markets under fair and constant rules? The Secretary-General speaks of global cooperation at the very moment when the countries of the West have unleashed a veritable war of sanctions against more than half, if not the majority, of the countries of the world, and the US dollar, promoted as an asset and a good for all humanity, has been crudely turned into a weapon. <...> It is not late to breathe new life into the United Nations. But this can be achieved through restoration of trust based on the charter principle – sovereign equality of all states – rather than out-of-touch summits and declarations. However, while the trust is undermined, including through actions by the West to create its subordinate narrow formats to resolve crucial issues bypassing the UN such as control over the Internet or determination of legal frameworks to use AI technologies. These issues touch upon the future of the entire humanity and they have to be considered on a universal basis, without discrimination and aspiration to achieve unilateral benefits. Thus, everything has to be agreed on a fair basis involving all UN members. Key points: • The world faces massive challenges which require united efforts rather than confrontation and desire of global domination. • It is obvious for the world majority that confrontation and hegemonism do not solve a single global problem. They just artificially restrain the impartial process of forming a multipolar world. • Russia will always be on the side of collective work,truth and law, peace and cooperation in the interests of reviving the ideals laid down by the founding fathers. • The unprecedented level of hypocrisy and aggressiveness of the western policy against Russia not only brings to naught the idea of global cooperation promoted by the Secretary General. • The UN Secretariat cannot remain aloof from efforts to establish the truth in situations that directly affect global security and must act impartially in accordance with Art. 100 of the Charter, acting impartially and avoiding the temptation to play into the hands of certain states, especially those who openly call for the world to be divided into a flowering garden and a jungle, or for a democratic table to be set for dinner and those on the menu instead of cooperation. • A more equitable world order unconditionally presupposes increased representation of the Global South in the UN Security Council. We reaffirm our position in support of Brazil and India provided a positive decision is reached in the framework of the well-known initiatives of the African Union. #UNGA79#UNCharterIsOurRules

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#Day3📹#UNGA79 🤝 On Day 3 of the Russian delegation's High-level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly gauntlet, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in 9 events, including meetings in multilateral format: • Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter • Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Syria Bassam Sabbagh • Meeting of theregional quartet(Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan) • Meeting with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon Abdallah Bou Habib • Meeting with Foreign Minister of BrazilMauro Vieira • Meeting “Russia - Small Island States of the South Pacific” • Meeting with Foreign Minister of Iran Seyed Abbas Araghchi • Astana Process meeting • Remarks at the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question ✍️Russian-Syrian Declaration on Ways and Methods of Countering, Combating the Derivative Effects of Unilateral Coercive Measures was signed during the Foreign Ministers Meeting. 👉 DAY 1 👉 DAY 2 #ICYMI

#Day2📹#UNGA79 The Russian delegation helmed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov continues to carry out its intensive programme within the framework and on the margins of the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly. 👉DAY 1 🤝 On Day 2, the Minister held 9 bilateral meetings, including the traditional tête-à-tête with the UN Secretary-General, took part in the CSTO and BRICS Ministerials. In total, 11 events: • Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister – Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu • Working meeting of the CSTO Foreign Ministers • BRICS Ministerial meeting • Meeting with Foreign Minister of Morocco Nasser Bourita • Meeting with Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen Rashad Muhammad Al-Alimi • Meeting with Foreign Minister of Bolivia Celinda Sosa Lunda • Meeting with Foreign Minister of Mali Abdoulaye Diop • Meeting with Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov • Meeting with Chairman of the Supreme (Sovereignty) Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah al-Burhan • Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Jordan Ayman Safadi • Meeting with Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres #ICYMI

🗓 On September 25, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a brief meeting with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malta, Ian Borg, on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, at the latter’s initiative. The counterparts discussed topical issues on the organisation’s agenda. The Russian side stressed the importance of the OSCE’s work in the interests of all member states, rather than individual groups of countries. Ways to overcome the crisis in the OSCE and normalise its activities were outlined, including in light of the upcoming OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting to take place in Valletta on December 5 and 6. During the meeting, Sergey Lavrov and Ian Borg also touched upon some aspects of Russia-Malta relations. #UNGA79