Россия в ОБСЕ

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a joint meeting of the Collegiums of the Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus (Moscow, November 25, 2025) 💬 Today, we are looking back at the outgoing year, which marked the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, a sacred holiday for Belarusians and Russians. I would like to express my gratitude to our Belarusian allies for their consistently close cooperation and support in all our joint undertakings. Guided by the Programme of Coordinated Actions in Foreign Policy of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State for 2024-2026, we have closely cooperated within the framework of our common Eurasian associations, such as (in addition to the Union State) the #CSTO, the #EAEU, the #CIS, and the #SCO, as well as within #BRICS, the #UN, and the #OSCE. In all of these organisations, we act in solidarity on virtually all international issues. We are implementing important joint initiatives, including those aimed at strengthening security and stability in Eurasia. Diplomatic support of large-scale bilateral cooperation and integration processes within the Union State has remained our overriding priority. Undoubtedly, the Union State is a format that sets the tone for interaction across several areas. In accordance with the resolution adopted by the collegiums and instructions issued by the respective heads of state and government, we primarily focused on promoting cooperation within common integration entities, deepening ties among them, and expanding cooperation with the countries from the Global South. Likewise, we focused on coordinating our efforts on international legal issues, among them countering the West’s sanctions aggression, and other areas. <...> We have facilitated the dialogue between the EAEU and the SCO and BRICS, and the coordination of 2026-2030 EEC-ASEAN Cooperation Programme. We have started looking into the possibility of expanding CIS contacts with African organisations and established cooperation between the CSTO Secretariat and the AU Counter Terrorism Centre. As I mentioned earlier, we have jointly promoted on all international venues the initiative advanced by the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, on the development of the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century which aligns with the initiative put forward by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to form a new architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia. <...> We have made significant efforts to expand international support for countering the practice of illegal unilateral sanctions. On the initiative of the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter, of which Russia and Belarus are members and play an important role, the UN General Assembly adopted, in June, a resolution establishing the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures. <...> The agenda of today’s meeting is quite extensive. We will begin by discussing issues related to the joint use of humanitarian policy tools, the promotion of traditional values, and the preservation of historical memory. We will then consider matters related to cooperation with friendly states and their associations, as well as our approaches to building relations with the countries whose governments pursue an openly unfriendly policy towards us. This will also include our relations with the organisations that deviate from their own founding principles, do not adhere to impartiality and equal distance, but instead seek to take predominantly pro-Western political positions. We will place special emphasis on sharing experience in foreign policy information support. Following the meeting, we plan to sign a Resolution of the collegiums and a Plan for inter-ministerial consultations for 2026. #RussiaBelarus

🇷🇺🇧🇾 On June 9-10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovheld talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov, who was on his first official visit in Moscow. The talks were held in a traditionally trust-based and truly comradely atmosphere. The Ministers discussed a wide range of key issues of Russia-Belarus strategic partnership and alliance. They focused on diplomatic support for the integration process in the Union State. They voiced coinciding or quite similar positions, while considering current international and regional issues, including the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. The Sides exchanged opinions regarding their future collaboration to forge a Greater Eurasian Partnership and new Eurasian security architecture. Following the meeting, Sergey Lavrov and Maxim Ryzhenkov signed a joint address to the foreign ministers of Eurasian states on drafting the Charter of Eurasian Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century. The Ministers reviewed, in great detail, issues of future integration within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO), the Eurasian Economic Union (#EEU), the Commonwealth of Independent States (#CIS) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO), as well as mutual collaboration at the United Nations Organisation and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (#OSCE). Addressing a joint news conference, the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Belarus discussed, in great detail, the agreements reached by them. #RussiaBelarus#UnionState

🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿 20-21 мая российско-белорусская делегация во главе с заместителем Постоянного представителя Российской Федерации при ОБСЕМ.В.Буякевичем и заместителем Начальника Управления общеевропейского сотрудничества МИД БеларусиА.М.Чесновским посетила Республику Казахстан для анализа работы полевого присутствия #ОБСЕ в Астане. Состоялся обстоятельный обмен мнениями с руководством Программного офиса ОБСЕ в Астане по ключевым вопросам функционирования Организации, а также проектной деятельности офиса по трём измерениям безопасности и приоритетам его взаимодействия с казахстанской стороной. В рамках визита российско-белорусскую делегацию приняли в МИД Казахстана. В ходе беседы с заместителем Директора Департамента Европы А.С.Биртан стороны обсудили ряд вопросов взаимодействия на площадке ОБСЕ и ход реализации проектов Программного офиса по содействию национальным властям в контексте реализуемых в Казахстане масштабных реформ. Участники встречи подчеркнули настрой на дальнейшее взаимодействие на венской площадке и важность усилий по продвижению совместных инициатив. Данная поездка стала продолжением состоявшихся в апреле 2024 года серии визитов российской делегации по линии ОБСЕ в Центральную Азию. #OSCE

🌐World Press Freedom Day is traditionally celebrated on May 3 🗓️ This date was established to remind annually the international community of the importance of media independence and pluralism, as well as ensuring the protection of journalists' rights, was proclaimed by a resolution of the UN General Assembly on December 20, 1993. Relevant commitments have been approved in the #OSCE, but in recent years the situation in this area has only continued to degrade. ❗️On this memorable day, we once again draw attention to the deplorable situation with ensuring freedom of expression and equal access to information in the countries of the "collective West." We have witnessed the incessant arbitrariness against the Russian media and journalists, who have fully felt the repressive machine of the neoliberal world. 🔺 Special attention should be paid to the actions of the criminal Zelensky regime, which has destroyed media freedom in Ukraine and continues a series of brutal reprisals against Russian journalists. Western countries and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media J.Braathu prefer to ignore these crimes. ✍️ In order to preserve the memory of Russian and foreign media workers who have became the victims of the crimes of the Kiev regime since 2014, we would like to draw your attention to the project "The Martyrs for the Truth" prepared by the Donetsk News Agency,Zaporozhye News Agency,Lugansk Media Center,Kherson News Agency in cooperation with a journalist, a member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights by Alexander Malkevich. #PerishedForTruth #CrimesOfTheKievRegime