Embassy of Russia in Singapore

🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya (July 12, 2024) Key Points: • We are aware of the Kiev regime and its Western patrons’ plans to make up for the failure of the “peace summit” held at Burgenstock Resort in Switzerland in mid-June by holding a similar event. They are even thinking of inviting Russia to it. They are using the same rhetoric over and over again in the hope of selling the idea of the misguided “Zelensky’s formula,” which has been worded as an ultimatum. ❗️ We do not accept such ultimatums, and we are not going to attend such “peace summits.” • Americans make no secret of their mercenary aspirations, which the current and former secretaries of state confirmed the other day. Antony Blinken said openly that nearly all of the new military aid package for Ukraine would be invested in the US defence industry. • There are numerous examples of Bern’s involvement in the aggressive policies pursued by the collective West, such as joining the EU anti-Russia sanctions and acting in solidarity with the Kiev regime. • We have notified our Armenian partners of our views on this matter and openly stated them. Regarding security, I would like to emphasise that Armenia remains a CSTO member and is a party to numerous bilateral military and military-technical agreements. • We always raise the issue of the EU mission in our contacts with Yerevan and other regional partners. We reaffirm our belief that sustainable peace in the South Caucasus can only be established through the comprehensive implementation of the package of trilateral agreements which the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia reached in 2020-2022. • Russia and Belarus are working on a joint project to manufacture light aircraft, which are in high demand in view of an extensive network of region-to-region air routes being created to meet current market needs. • Our Belarusian friends are contemplating considerable investment in this high-potential project, which is going to give them access to the transhipment of containers, mineral fertilisers and oil products using the Northern Sea Route. • We are working together with our Belarusian friends on a comprehensive decision to abolish roaming across the Union State territory. At the preparatory stage, we agreed to develop a financial and economic model based on the averaged data on the use of mobile plans that do not exceed 300 minutes of outgoing calls and 20-25 GB of data traffic per month. ☝️ Such parameters are in line with the best international practice. http://tiny.cc/9hu3zz

🗓 On July 13, the 16th ASEAN-Russia Senior Economic Officials Meeting (#SEOM-Russia consultation) was held in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦. 🔹️Participants discussed the key dimensions of the ASEAN-Russia Trade and Investment Work Programme for 2021-2025: agriculture, digital economy, logistics, climate change, tourism, creative economy. Russia 🇷🇺 and #ASEAN Member States agreed to develop and adopt in 2025 the new Strategic Programme of trade and investment cooperation. 🔹️Delegates expressed support to enhancing the scope of joint projects under the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Financial Fund (#ARDPF). 🔹️Both sides also highlighted a number of the ASEAN-#EAEU projects and capacity building initiatives.

🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin addressed the Plenary Session of the 10th #BRICS Parliamentary Forum (July 11, St Petersburg) 💬 President Vladimir Putin: The theme of this forum — The Role of Parliaments in Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security — is extremely important. It speaks for itself, highlighting the nature of the fundamental global transformations underway today. Your open discussions, the face-to-face conversations between legislators representing their voters fully align with the principles that underpin BRICS philosophy. These include consideration of each other’s interests, reliance on democracy in international relations, respect for sovereignty of nations and their right to determine their own development trajectories. <...> 🌐 We understand very well that formation of a world order that reflects the real balance of forces and the new geopolitical, economic and demographic reality is a complicated and, unfortunately, even painful process – mainly because the efforts of the BRICS members and other developing countries are facing fierce resistance from the ruling elites of the so-called “golden billion” states. Acting contrary to historical logic and often to the detriment of the long-term interests of their own nations, they seek to cement a certain order based on their own so-called rules that nobody has ever seen, discussed or adopted. These rules are written or corrected every time anew, to suit every specific situation and in the interests of those who consider themselves exceptional and arrogated the right to dictate their will to others. This is classical colonialism at its best, a clear attempt to replace legitimate international law and monopolise the ultimate truth – and this monopoly is destructive. The pressure on those who have their own stance is growing. Contrary to the principles of international law, they are using force and coercion, unilateral sanctions, selective application of trade rules, and blackmail. We have seen attempts to restrict direct contacts between lawmakers, which goes against the principle of free interparliamentary cooperation and the sovereign right of official representatives of every state to protect their national interests. That is why today the significance and relevance of collective work by people’s representatives on the constructive agenda of our association are rising dramatically. 🇷🇺 Let me remind you that the main goal of Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship this year is to create the most favourable conditions for consistent development of all its members. I am convinced that, by acting together in unity, we will be able to fulfill our countries’ potential in the economy, investment, technology, and human capital; to strengthen the positive impact of BRICS on global developments and make the world safer and more harmonious. Read in full - t.ly/DT-Hd

✅ July 11 is the World Chocolate Day. Russia is among the top importers of cocoa beans. It's hard to imagine a Russian tea party without chocolate candies. The most famous Russian confectionary brands are Krupskaya's Confectionery factory, Krasny Oktyabr, Rot Front, Primorsky Confectionery and many others. Particularly every region of Russian has its own confectionery factory with its own specialite. There is a famous shop chain “Alyonka” with a great choice of sweets from different Russian confectionery factories.

💬 Maria #Zakharova: When the US State Department says again that Evan Gershkovich is a journalist and not a spy, think about The Summing Up, the literary memoir of British writer Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and The Painted Veil). He was quite outspoken in it about his secret missions: “I returned to America and shortly afterwards was sent on a mission to Petrograd. I was diffident of accepting the post, which seemed to demand capacities that I did not think I possessed; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at the moment and my being a writer was very good ‘cover’ for what I was asked to do... But I could not miss the opportunity of spending certainly a considerable time in the country of Tolstoi, Dostoievski and Chekov; I had a notion that in the intervals of the work I was being sent to do I could get something for myself that would be of value; so, I set my foot hard on the loud pedal of patriotism and persuaded the physician I consulted that under the tragic circumstances of the moment I was taking no undue risk. I set off in high spirits with unlimited money at my disposal and four devoted Czechs to act as liaison officers between me and Professor Masaryk who had under his control in various parts of Russia something like sixty thousand of his compatriots. I was exhilarated by the responsibility of my position. I went as a private agent, who could be disavowed if necessary, with instructions to get in touch with parties hostile to the government and devise a scheme that would keep Russia in the war and prevent the Bolsheviks, supported by the Central Powers, from seizing power. It is not necessary for me to inform the reader that in this I failed lamentably and I do not ask him to believe me when I state that it seems to me at least possible that if I had been sent six months before I might quite well have succeeded. Three months after my arrival in Petrograd the crash came and put an end to all my plans. I returned to England. I had had some interesting experiences and had got to know fairly well one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met. This was Boris Savinkov, the terrorist who had assassinated Trepov and the Grand Duke Sergius...” Maugham wrote openly that he was a British agent sent to Russia to interfere in its internal affairs and to influence the Russian government. It was in 1917, when Russia was amid revolutionary turmoil, and Maugham was sent there as a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. He is not the only Anglo-Saxon who worked for British secret services under the guise of a journalist or a writer. Here are some of the others: - Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus) – and informer and a secret agent for Sir Francis Walsingham, who created Britain’s professional secret service. - Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) – a pro-Union spy in Scotland. - A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) – a propaganda writer for MI7, an office of the Directorate of Military Intelligence with responsibilities for press liaison and propaganda, in 1916-1918. - Graham Greene (The Quiet American) – from 1941 to 1944, he worked for MI6 as a member of the Foreign Office in Sierra Leone and Portugal. After WWII, he was a correspondent of the magazine The New Republic in Indochina. - Ian Fleming (James Bond) – an officer in the Royal Navy’s Naval Intelligence Department during WWII. - John le Carré (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) – in 1959, he was transferred to MI6 and spent the next five years working under diplomatic cover in West Germany, first as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Bonn and later as a political consul in Hamburg. - Stella Rimington (Dead Line) – Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996. The others who worked at or for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau, commonly known as Wellington House, in 1914-1918 are H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), and Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), as well as many newspaper editors.

🗓 On June 30 - July 5 and June 20-21, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 took part in the 14th ASEANAPOL Contact Persons Meeting (#ACPM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾 and the 12th ASEANAPOL Training Cooperation Meeting (#ATCM) in Vientiane, Laos 🇱🇦. 🔹️Russian delegates undelined the important role #ASEANAPOL plays in strengthening cooperation and information exchange between law-enforcement agencies of the countries of the region in the sphere of combating terrorism, extremism and transnational organized crime. 🔹️The Russian side reaffirmed its commitment to further promote ties with ASEANAPOL including by enhancing capacity building efforts through increasing the quantity and widening the scope of the specialized trainings for law-enforcement experts from #ASEAN Member States that Russia 🇷🇺 has been conducting since 2012.

🎙 Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov commenton the outcomes of the Russia-India summit. 📍 Moscow, July 9 💬 Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s state visit to the Russian Federation at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin has come to an end. Yesterday, the leaders spent a lot of time together in an informal atmosphere and discussed almost every item on the agenda. Today, this time with the participation of the delegations, they reviewed in detail the entire range of bilateral issues. We have ambitious plans. A lot has been accomplished, and an excellent foundation has been created. During the ceremony of awarding Narendra Modi with an Order of St Andrew the Apostle, the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of India outlined the key areas of interaction and underscored the commitment to deepen it across all spheres without exception, including the economy and the political dialogue, and humanitarian, cultural, sports, and educational ties, as well as military and military-technical cooperation. Our relations can be described as a “particularly privileged strategic partnership,” a term that is codified in the Russian-Indian documents and accurately describes the ties between our countries which go deep in history. At a time when India was fighting for independence, the Soviet Union was among the first to recognise a new, young state with a deep, long, millennia-long history and civilisation. During today’s talks, in addition to the bilateral goals (that have already been accepted for execution) which were outlined by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, there was an exchange of views on the international situation, primarily in the context of Russia’s BRICS chairmanship. India supported the programme that we are in the process of implementing. Mr Modi said he was pleased to accept President Putin’s invitation to take part in the BRICS summit in Kazan in October 2024. The situation and prospects of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation were discussed in detail. The parties reiterated that this format was a top priority for Moscow and New Delhi. The participants discussed cooperation in the G20, where Brazil currently holds chairmanship, and India performed these functions in 2023. They discussed how at the G20 summit in New Delhi the Indian presidency with the support of Russia, China and other Global Majority countries prevented the Ukrainianisation of the G20 agenda, which the United States and its allies insistently sought to achieve. The New Delhi Declaration provides an objective geopolitical overview with account taken of all factors and with the emphasis on the fact that any conflict that in one way or another affects the global economy as well as unilateral sanctions should be considered in a balanced manner, not to the detriment of the basic G20 agenda which focuses on working out arrangements to promote the global economy and the monetary system, and to prevent crises in these critically important areas. 🇺🇳 We discussed interaction in the United Nations. India is one of the most active UN members. Our positions in the UN overlap. <...> Russia has reiterated its position in favour of supporting India’s candidacy for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council in case a decision to this effect is made in principle, which requires a substantial majority, almost a unanimous vote of the UN General Assembly members. This work takes an effort, and the dialogue has been going on for a long while. Our position in favour of the candidacies of India, Brazil and the African group remains unchanged. We believe the West should not be accorded additional seats, either permanent, or non-permanent. It is over-represented in this key body as it is. The visit confirmed the commitment of the Leaders of both countries on comprehensive promotion of the particularly privileged strategic partnership. Specific goals have been outlined, and we will provide updates about the efforts to fulfil them.

🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN: 🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine (New York, July 9, 2024) 💬 Yesterday, the Secretariat received a letter from the Permanent Representative of that country requesting the right to speak at the briefing. Unlike all other requests, including that of the EU and Poland, the way it is drafted violates greatly the established practice and it is not addressed to the President of the Security Council, nor does it contain even basic protocol language of diplomatic communication. ❗️ The rules are the same for everyone and this has ensured the functioning of the UN Security Council for almost 80 years. ☝️ Nevertheless, we agree to let Ukraine participate in today's meeting (if there are no objections from other members of the Council), but only in view of the fact that this was requested by the member of the Security Council, namely by the United States. We regret that Ukraine is unable to act independently even in such a purely procedural matter as participation in a UN Security Council meeting, and even in that it needs guidance from its sponsors. <…> 💬 Nevertheless, the truth, as we all know, does not interest our Western colleagues, and in the best traditions of the Bucha provocation or the Mariupol hospital mentioned today, they tried to engage in wishful thinking by condemning the allegedly “intentional strike by the Russian Armed Forces against the children's medical facility”. The dishonesty of such tactics can be seen with the naked eye, and the Ukrainians themselves immediately noticed it, as videos of the strike swiftly appeared on the Internet negating all the efforts by Kiev and Western propagandists. ☝️ We constantly write that Ukrainian air defense missiles frequently go off target. We have already witnessed many tragedies like that, and Zelensky’s office is constantly lying to people that it is the Russians who are intentionally hitting residential buildings. The presidential office has to constantly fuel hatred among Ukrainians and justifying the continuation of the war by such "artificial tragedies". The tragedy with an air defense missile hitting a children's hospital occurred exactly on the eve of the NATO Summit. This is the third NATO summit since the beginning of the special military operation, and similar situations occurred before each of them. All these cases were heavily exploited by the head of the Kiev clique in order to cadge new weapons for Ukraine. ⁉️ How is it possible that the Ukrainian air defense misses all five strikes on the plant, but hits the children's hospital? ❌ There is no doubt that the Ukrainian leadership will use today's situation as a pretext for ignoring further the long overdue demand in Ukrainian society (and in the entire world), for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis. This is understandable, because enacting such a solution would mean no need to extend martial law, and would require holding elections. This is what the Kiev clique fears most than anything else, realizing that the attitude of the population towards the regime is extremely negative. That is why the Ukrainian leadership prefers to sacrifice tens, if not hundreds of thousands of its fellow citizens sending them into a senseless meat grinder. 🤝 We appreciate initiatives by all States that are aimed at establishing a genuine ceasefire and addressing our legitimate concerns, rather than promoting propaganda, which was clearly seen at the pseudo-peace conference in Switzerland. Read in full: https://vk.cc/cygo7s

❌FAKE: Russia deliberately struck the children's hospital "Okhmatdyt" in Kyiv with a Kh-101 cruise missile ✅TRUTH: Russia targeted military facilities in Kyiv, and the hospital was hit by an AIM-120 air defense missile from a NASAMS system used by Ukraine. This is evidenced by the size of the missile and the type of damage caused by shrapnel on nearby buildings. The damage to the facade of the hospital clearly shows shrapnel marks from air defense systems. Ukrainians find shrapnel near the hospital and post photos on social media. Ukrainian propagandists admit that the air defense system was active and shared footage showing shrapnel typical of air defense missiles. The AIM-120 missile is 366 cm long with a diameter of 17.8 cm, a ratio of 1/20.6. The Kh-101 is 745 cm long with a diameter of 74.2 cm, a ratio of 1/10. The Kh-55 is 588 cm long with a diameter of 51.4 cm, a ratio of 1/11.4. Even in angled photographs, the length of the missile clearly exceeds its diameter by more than 15 times. Indirect evidence includes the absence of the characteristic sound of Russian rocket engines (the whistle in the second video is different from what would be heard from a Kh-101) and the approach of the missile from the west. But Ukrainian propaganda, in a bid for maximum attention before the NATO summit, insists that the attack was by a Russian missile. Ukrainian Telegram channels report that the Ukrainian president's office ordered civilians removed from the site to prevent them from photographing fragments of the missile that might reveal its true origin. 🔗https://vk.cc/cyf0sN 🔗https://vk.cc/cyf0t4 🔗https://vk.cc/cyf0td

⚡️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of Russia Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on Ukraine's violation of obligations under Chemical Weapons Convention (July 8, 2024) Key talking points: 💬 The Kiev regime regularly violates the Chemical Weapons Convention. During the special military operation, more than 400 cases of non-lethal toxic chemicals used by the Ukrainian side were registered. • The Ukrainian Armed Forces troops use toxic compounds not only in the course of combat actions, but also to carry out terrorist attacks in liberated territories against a number of Russian political figures. • The existing evidence base proving Ukraine's violating its obligations under the Convention has been submitted to the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, but no response has been forthcoming so far. • Moreover, the Russian Defence Ministry has information about Ukraine's active cooperation with the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, which has ratified an additional agreement on privileges and immunities for technical assistance visits. This agreement will enable Ukraine to use the OPCW for its own benefit, circumventing the existing procedures under the Convention, by imposing on the Organisation its notoriously false conclusions about chemical investigations. • A laboratory with chemical equipment was detected in an industrial zone on the ground floor of the destroyed building in one of the locations near Avdeyevka during engineering reconnaissance. <...> Analysis of the containers showed the presence of sulphuric acid and sodium cyanide suggesting the use of found equipment for the production of toxic substances. • The US is fully in control of the activities of the OPCW. To settle accounts with the 'undesirable' states, Washington has established an attributive mechanism in the OPCW that was used to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria. ❗️ According to the available information, the US and Germany, together with Ukraine and the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, are preparing to launch a special mission to investigate the so-called use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, with a view to pressing charges against Russia. One of the so-called 'independent' states is to initiate investigations and plant evidence that Russia used toxic chemicals during the special military operation. Americans have already committed some $400,000 to this end. Read in full: https://vk.cc/cyeEsM