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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the opening ceremony of an exhibition marking the 75th Anniversary of diplomatic relations with China (Moscow, October 3, 2024) 💬 It is a great honour and privilege for us to welcome you to the exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Russia and China. <...> This exhibition presents unique documents and photo images highlighting the key reference points in our relations. 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Our two countries established diplomatic relations on October 2, 1949, the day after the People’s Republic of China appeared on the world’s political map. Taking this opportunity, I would like to once again extend my congratulations to His Excellency Ambassador Zhang Hanhui and all our Chinese friends on the PRC’s 75th Anniversary. Moscow was the first capital to recognise the newly established China. Our country became a reliable friend to Beijing and assisted it in the early days of its state-building efforts. <...> Meaningful and trust-based dialogue at the highest level plays a key role in strengthening our cooperation in various domains. <...> Overall, consistent years-long joint efforts under the guidance of our leaders have elevated our relations to unprecedented heights. It is highly satisfying for me that in the current geopolitical environment, the comprehensive strategic partnership and strategic cooperation between Russia and China have demonstrated their solid and mature nature and continue to facilitate our countries’ development in all its aspects and improve the wellbeing of our peoples. <...> Moscow and Beijing have been working in tandem to ensure global stability and build a multipolar world order with greater justice for all. 🤝 It is clear that we can resolve any matters and overcome any challenges in the spirit of eternal friendship, neighbourly relations, mutual respect and mutual benefit. #RussiaChina

#RussiaHelps 🤝 Russia's EMERCOM delivers 33 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of Lebanon. The package comprises: • food supplies; • emergency supplies; • medicine; • mobile power stations. 🇷🇺🇱🇧#RussiaLebanon

🌐 On September 30 — October 1, Yerevan hosted the III Eurasian Economic Forum dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the #EAEU. 🟣The two-day event brought together government leaders, businessmen and representatives of international organizations to discuss the prospects of the Eurasian integration. The key topics were digitalization and industrial cooperation till 2030. 🇷🇺 On October 1, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin took part in the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council and the plenary session of the forum. The topic of the discussions was "Digitalization in modern realities — an imperative to ensure 4 freedoms". 🤝💼 Highlighting in his address cooperation between friendly countries and the EAEU, Mikhail Mishustin noted: "In the future, countries outside the EAEU interested in deepening cooperation with the Union may also join the integrated information platform for interstate document flow." #EEF2024 #EAEU

📹#UNGA79 🤝 The Russian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, has concluded its participation in the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly: 35 meetings, including 28 bilaterals "on the margins" of the UNGA. A recap of what you might have…or might not have missed 👆 #ICYMI 👉DAY 1 👉DAY 2 👉DAY 3 🎙 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov's remarks at General Debate of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly: 💬 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. This is the aim of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations 🎙 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions 💬 Our view is well known. The only beneficial way to reinforce the Council is by considering candidates from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Increasing the number of Western countries and their allies is out of the question. #UnCharterIsOurRules

🗓 On September 27, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a meeting with High Representatives of the Pacific Small Island Developing States on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The discussion centred on current international issues, including the situation in the Asia-Pacific region and globally. 🤝 The Officials confirmed their intention to step up cooperation on a broad range of issues of mutual interest. #UNGA79

📺 Address by President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Day of Reunification of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions with Russia (September 30, 2024) 💬 President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, friends, Today, on September 30, we mark the Day of Reunification of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions with Russia. I wholeheartedly congratulate all citizens of our country on this truly momentous event. We have come to this moment through years of challenges and difficult trials. We knew the unbearable conditions under which Donbass lived for eight long years, enduring constant shelling and blockades, and the oppression faced by the people of Novorossiya. ☝️ They stood up against the armed coup in Kiev and resisted the neo-Nazi dictatorship that sought to sever them forever from their historic Motherland, from Russia. We did not abandon our brothers and sisters and sought to achieve a peaceful resolution to this grave conflict. You know how those talks ended: with lies, deceit and betrayal by the Western elites, who in that time turned Ukraine into their colony, into a military outpost aimed at Russia. ❗️They systematically instilled hatred and radical nationalism, fuelled hostility towards everything Russian, supplied weapons, sent mercenaries and advisers, and trained the Ukrainian army for a new war, so that again, as in the spring and summer of 2014, to launch a punitive operation in the southeast. Their targets included not only Donbass, but also Crimea and other Russian regions. The subsequent developments fully confirmed the need for and validity of the special military operation and its genuinely liberating nature. I want to address the residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. Thank you for your steadfastness, determination and strength, for passing down from generation to generation our spiritual values, historical memory, traditions and culture, and above all, our great love for the Motherland, which remains our greatest source of strength in life. Today, together, we are defending a safe and prosperous future for our children and grandchildren, our shared destiny, the memory of the achievements and victories of our great ancestors, and our loyalty to their traditions and behests. These sentiments give strength to the participants in the special military operation. Fighting now in Donbass and Novorossiya, defending the borders of Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, they are defending our vast, beautiful and beloved Russia. We are proud of our heroes and are doing everything we can to support them. We are actively restoring enterprises and building residential houses, hospitals, schools and kindergartens in the liberated territories. All Russian regions are involved in this effort. Both large and small businesses are making their contribution. Volunteers, non-governmental and religious organisations, and parliamentary parties are playing a huge role too. 🤝 I want to thank all citizens of our country for their unity and patriotic spirit. The truth is on our side. All the goals we have set for ourselves will be achieved. Happy holiday, friends! Happy Reunification Day!

🎙 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 💬 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

⚡️ In the evening of September 27, the Israeli Air Force delivered a series of heavy air bomb strikes against a densely populated district in the south of Beirut. According to the IDF, it targeted Hezbollah’s main operational headquarters. On the same day, the Israeli Air Force carried out a massive bombing of the Lebanon capital’s southern neighbourhoods under the pretext that weapons depots were located there. The result was a complete destruction of residential buildings, which were literally levelled to the ground. Dozens of civilians were wounded. The exact death toll has yet to be established. Debris removal is currently in progress. In the morning of September 28, the Israeli military command officially announced that the Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah had been killed as a result of the operation. The organisation itself confirmed the death of the leader who had been heading it for over 30 years. ❌ This is yet another political assassination committed by Israel, and Russia condemns it with great resolve. This forceful action has the potential to entail even more dramatic consequences for Lebanon and the Middle East in general. Israel was definitely aware of this danger. Nevertheless, it took this step and started killing Lebanese citizens, which will almost inevitably provoke a new outburst of violence. Therefore, it bears full responsibility for the ensuing escalation. ❗️Once again, we are insistently calling on Israel to stop the hostilities immediately. This would make it possible to cease the bloodshed and create conditions for a political and diplomatic settlement. In the current explosive situation, responsible members of the international community must do everything in their power to prevent the region from plunging into a full-scale armed confrontation.