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🤝 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter #UNCharterIsOurRules#UNGA79

#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

#RussiaMali 🇷🇺🇲🇱 On September 26, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Mali Abdoulaye Diopmet in New York on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly. The Foreign Ministers discussed topical issues pertaining to further strengthening friendly Russia-Mali relations and engaged in a constructive exchange of views on the situation in the Sahara-Sahel region. The Russian Side reaffirmed its commitment to continue supporting the stabilisation in Mali, including at the UN. ✍️ The Ministers signed the Russia-Mali Joint Statement on the No First Placement of Weapons in Outer Space. #UNGA79

🌐 On September 26, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovtook part in a traditional #BRICS Ministerial meeting held on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Ministers had an in-depth exchange of views on a broad range of international issues, including items on the agenda of the 79th UN General Assembly session. Discussions focused on peace and security, global economic stability, and sustainable development. The participants reiterated their commitment to enhancing coordination within BRICS on international platforms. As part of preparations for the upcoming BRICS Summit in Kazan on October 22-24, the ministers reviewed pressing BRICS cooperation-related issues, including the establishment of a partner country category. The Brazilian delegation provided an outline of its BRICS chairmanship in 2025. #UNGA79

🇷🇺🇲🇦 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Morocco's Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates Nasser Bourita hold talks on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly #RussiaMorocco#UNGA79

🗓 On September 26, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovtook part in a working meeting of the #CSTO Foreign Ministers organised by Kazakhstan’s CSTO chairmanship on the sidelines of the high-level week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly. 🤝 The Ministers discussed a wide range of international and regional security issues. They stressed the need to step up coordination of actions on topical issues on the UN’s agenda between the CSTO member states on the UN platform and further promote cooperation between the CSTO and the UN. The Ministers discussed preparations for the next session of the CSTO Collective Security Council on November 28 in Astana. #UNGA79

📺 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on the sidelines of the 79th Session. 📍 New York, September 25, 2024 💬 The formation of a multilateral world requires upgrading of the international governance architecture, if we want to build a more just and democratic world order based on the enduring principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnection. #G20, as a leading economic forum, can give a powerful boost to these objective processes that are dictated by life itself. We believe that the G20 should strictly adhere to its mandate and not delve into issues of peace and security and other universal problems, which the UN is here to deal with. It is important that the activities of our platform are strictly based on the principle of consensus. At the G20 summit in New Delhi in 2023, we promised to strengthen the voice of developing countries in collective decision-making. It is necessary to translate these promises into concrete actions. The reform of international institutions, which must be considered as global public goods, should be carried out taking into account the interests of new growing centres of global development. The current conditions show that there have been significant changes in the balance of economic leaders. 📈 Two years ago, BRICS member countries surpassed the G7 in terms of real GDP. According to forecasts, the ten BRICS members will produce about 37% of the world’s output, while the G7 group will fall to 27% or even lower. At the same time, we can see the African continent and other regions of the Global South and East quickly rising. Russia is actively reorienting its trade to their markets. This includes the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. 🌐Innovative multilateral formats such as #BRICS (where Russia presides in 2024), the SCO, the EAEU, ASEAN, the African Union, and CELAC are becoming increasingly important. Projects designed to align integration efforts, such as Russia’s flagship Greater Eurasian Partnership initiative, are picking up momentum. <...> A tangible progress has been achieved in the context of efforts to de-dollarise the international financial and economic system. In particular, the share of national currencies in Russia’s settlements with the SCO and EAEU countries has exceeded 90%. Russia and its BRICS partners have achieved an indicator equal to 65%, and this figure grows. The share of the dollar in the BRICS payments pattern is currently below 29%. <...> 🤷‍♂️ Nevertheless, certain global mechanisms are still in the West’s hands, and it tends to abuse them. A matter of particular concern are the attempts on the part of the United States and its allies to impose a confrontational agenda on international organisations in order to make them the vehicles of unilateral restrictions, plunder, impoundment of sovereign assets, trade wars and unfair competition, including in the name of environmentalism and climate. All of these are clear manifestations of neocolonialism. Over the past ten years, the collective West has introduced more than 21,000 illegal restrictions against Russia alone. Their extraterritorial use – and this is an even more odious, illegitimate, raider-style approach – is primarily affecting the poorest countries and destitute population groups, depriving them of affordable energy, food and fertiliser. <...> Another topical task is combat the predominance and influence of Western states’ citizens who occupy top positions in international secretariats. 🇺🇳 A reform of the global governance system should heed the intransient central role of the UN in the system of international relations. The UN Charter and international law should not be substituted by any behind-the-scenes "rules". <...> ☝️ We should be guided by a striving to achieve genuine multilateralism, the main guarantee of strategic stability, indivisible security and an open and non-discriminatory economy. Full transcript

Off we go! 🇺🇳 #Day1📹#UNGA79 🇷🇺🇺🇳 On September 25, the Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in New York to participate in the High-Level week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, meetings and multilateral consultations. 🤝 Day 1 was a success, busy and fruitful. In total Russia’s Foreign Minister took part in 13 events including 12 bilaterals: 🎙Remarks at G20 Foreign MinistersMeeting • Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Wang Yi. • Meeting with Minister of External Affairs of India,Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar • Meeting with Foreign Minister of Venezuela Yvan Gil Pinto • Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez Parilla • Meeting with Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Valdrack Jaentschke • Meeting with Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves • Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó • Meeting with Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of SlovakiaJuraj Blanar • Meeting with Secretary of State of Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin • Meeting with Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit • Meeting with Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Philippe Lazzarini • Meeting with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malta, Ian Borg #ICYMI

❗️Key takeaways from statements by President Vladimir Putin at a session of the permanent meeting of the Russian Security Council on nuclear deterrence: ▪️ A number of clarifications have been proposed with regard to the definition of conditions for using nuclear weapons ▪️ Russia's draft updated nuclear doctrine expands the category of states and military alliances subject to nuclear deterrence ▪️ Aggression against Russia by a non-nuclear country jointly with a nuclear country will be viewed as an attack on Russia ▪️ Reliable information about a massive launch of air and space attack weapons towards Russia may be interpreted as a sufficient reason for a nuclear response by Moscow ▪️ Russia must take into account new sources of military threats, risks for itself and its allies ▪️ Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression against itself and Belarus ▪️ Russia makes highly responsible approach to nuclear weapons issues, seeks to prevent the “spread of nuclear weapons, their components” ▪️ Critical threat to Russian sovereignty with conventional weapons to be a reason enough for nuclear response ▪️ Russian nuclear triad guarantees the country's security and helps maintain balance in the world ▪️ The update of Russia's military doctrine is calculated, proportionate to threats

⚡️Reliable information about launch of an aerospace attack means towards Russia to entail a nuclear response - Putin

⚡️Critical threat to Russian sovereignty with conventional weapons to be a reason enough for nuclear response - Putin

⚡️Aggression against Russia by a non-nuclear country jointly with a nuclear country will be viewed as attack on Russia - Putin