🇷🇺🇮🇳🤝 On September 6, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov held talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on the sidelines of the 18th East Asia Summit in Jakarta.

The ministers exchanged views on the most pressing issues of bilateral relations and international issues. They discussed practical steps for the further development of trade, economic and energy cooperation, and cooperation in transport and in financial matters.

A mutual desire to increase coordination in multilateral formats, primarily at #UN, as well as within #SCO, #BRICS and #G20, was emphasised.

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📆 #OnThisDay in 1945, the Allied Soviet, US, British and French forces held a joint parade in Berlin. The anti-Hitler coalition allies marched through the defeated Nazi stronghold of Berlin.

The initiative for this celebration came from the Soviet Union, whose leaders suggested organising a joint Allied military pass-by in Berlin after its own Victory Parade in Moscow in June. It was arranged that it would take place on Alexanderplatz near the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate after the downfall of militarist Japan, their last enemy.

👉 Originally it was assumed that the parade would be reviewed by all the commanders-in-chief of the Allied forces in Germany. On the eve of the event, however, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (USA), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (GB), and Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (France) refused to attend, sending their representatives instead. This was a clear attempt to belittle the Soviet Union’s role in gaining a victory over the hydra of German Nazism and Japanese militarism.

The Berlin parade involved all branches of the land forces. It was decided to do without Air Force and Navy units because they were deployed far from Berlin. Soviet generals primarily sought to invite officers and men who had particularly distinguished themselves during the assault on Berlin.

The parade began at 11 am on the dot. The stands were filled with Soviet military leaders, generals and admirals of the British, US, and French armies and navies, and a group of US congressmen. Nearly 20,000 Berliners assembled around the parade ground. After reviewing the troops, Marshal Georgy Zhukov delivered a speech praising the historic achievements of the Soviet and Allied forces. Next there was a pass-by of the foot columns.

☝️ The memorable Victory Parade near the Brandenburg Gate was the last symbolic act involving the anti-Hitler coalition Allies. This joint military holiday became a prologue to the Cold War that was about to begin by the West's initiative.

⚡️ Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:

Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention

📃 We support the strengthening of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

We are gravely concerned over the growing tendency of Euro-Atlantic allies, led by the United States, to "privatize" specialized international organizations, of which the unacceptable situation in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is a graphic example.

❗️ Since 2018, in the vein of the anti-Russian and anti-Syrian rhetoric, NATO and EU countries have completely abandoned the practice of attaining consensus on key issues on the OPCW's agenda, as enshrined in Article VIII of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and replaced it with voting on the basis of bloc discipline.

These consistent efforts resulted in vesting the Technical Secretariat with "attribution" functions in violation of the CWC-established procedure for introducing amendments to the Convention (Article XV). While pursuing its goal of toppling the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad, undesirable for Washington, the "collective West" has virtually undermined the integrity of the Convention and ruined the technical nature of the OPCW's work.

🎙 Remarks by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov at the Regional seminar "Strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime"

📍 Bishkek, September 7, 2023

💬 It cannot but cause concern that in recent decades a certain group of countries, or to be precise, the States which are the NATO members and their partners, have been trying to usurp the right to interpret the issue of compliance by other State Parties with their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). They also have been trying to use the provisions of the Treaty to put pressure on objectionable countries and justify the interference in their internal affairs.

Similarly, the NPT is being seen as a pretext for restricting states' access to nuclear technology.

These factors do not contribute to maintaining the spirit of constructive interaction and the advance of an interested dialogue among States.

Under such circumstances, ensuring the sustainability of the NPT is one of the priorities for maintaining stability on a global scale.

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The situation that led to the suspension of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) due to the destructive policy of the United States and its significant violation of this agreement cannot but cause concern.

Nuclear disarmament in the NPT is incorporated in the context of general and complete disarmament, but now we are witnessing an increase in spending on conventional weapons in most States. The US accounts for 40% of all military spending in the world and if we add up the budgets of the armies of NATO countries and their closest allies, we get about two-thirds of global military spending. And this cannot be ignored when talking about the renunciation of nuclear weapons.

Bearing that in mind, there has been no reduction in the nuclear potential of NATO. On the contrary, the so-called non-strategic nuclear weapons of the United States are located on the territory of the alliance States, and vital Russian facilities are within their reach.

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⚡️ Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:

International anti-corruption cooperation

📃 We support international anti-corruption cooperation with the United Nations playing the central and coordinating role and on the basis of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). We are firmly committed to the intergovernmental, technical and impartial nature of the Convention mechanisms.

We strongly condemn all attempts to politicize the work of the Conference of the States Parties to the UNCAC.

☝️ We attach great importance to the implementation of the political declaration of the UNGA Special Session against Corruption, particularly as regards the need to bridge the gaps in the international legal framework for asset recovery.

#UNGA78

📹 WATCH: 🇮🇳India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes 🇷🇺Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov

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🇷🇺 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the first Plenary Session of #G20 Summit

📍 New Delhi, September 9

🔴 #LIVE: Deputy Head of the Expert Department of the President of Russia, Sherpa in the G20 Svetlana Lukash's remarks

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❗️#G20 declaration reflects group's balanced position on Ukraine, consensus has been reached, thought negotiations on the issue were difficult: Russian Sherpa 🇷🇺

▪Discussions on the Ukrainian matter at the G-20 posed formidable challenges, yet the #BRICS countries effectively expressed a united position;

▪The G-20 has marked a momentous milestone, with the resounding voice of the Global South resonating powerfully;

▪The G-20 nations have pledged to work together in harmony to address conflicts across the globe.

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Modi welcomes G-20 leaders with India's traditional item

🇷🇺 🇮🇳 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents Sergey Lavrov with a beige scarf crafted from hadi fabric, a design by Mahatma Gandhi, adorned with symbols representing India's #G20 presidency.

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