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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:

🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on the acts of sabotage at the Nord Stream pipeline (September 2022)

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💬 It has been a year since the sabotage in the Baltic Sea and almost as much since the Security Council convened on this issue for the first time. During that time, we have heard numerous assertions that national investigations by Germany, Denmark, and Sweden would allow to identify the perpetrators very soon. However there have been no results so far despite the seven UNSC meeting in both open and closed formats.

🔹 More and more evidence is emerging in the expert community that it is Washington who stood behind the disruption of the Nord Stream pipeline and went ahead with this outrageous criminal act guided by a narrowly self-interested desire to consolidate its dominance in Europe, which is in dire need of Russian energy.

🔹 In November, General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia submitted requests to competent German, Danish, and Swedish authorities to provide legal aid and establish joint investigative taskforce. We received but formal replies.

🔹 Some Western delegations on the Council, unable to cope with their emotions, directly pointed out at our meetings that the disruption of Nord Stream had been a response to Russia's actions in Ukraine. Such candid confessions would have allowed even a novice investigator to conclude this case without much trouble. But since Germany, Denmark and Sweden have been ordered to fence off the complicity of their overseas "big brother", their investigators have their hands tied and eyes closed.

☝️ Our country will continue to seek an objective & thorough establishment of all the circumstances of the incident, with the obligatory involvement of Russian investigative bodies & interested parties, as well as bringing to justice all those who ordered & perpetrated the sabotage. To that end, we will use all means available, including in the Security Council.

❗️ #DebunkingMyths spread by the EU leadership

Myth: Russia is offering 1 million tonnes of grain to African countries in a parody of generosity. What cynicism and contempt for African countries, when we know that the Black Sea agreement has so far delivered more than 30 million tonnes of exports, mainly to the most vulnerable countries. And that the solidarity routes, alternative routes developed by the EU and with the EU, have already enabled 40 million tonnes of grain to be exported. 1 million tonnes offered — as if it were a gift. This is absolutely appalling cynicism. On the other hand, there are those who are really fighting to come to the aid of the most fragile and vulnerable populations.

Fact: This statement by Charles Michel has no basis in reality. Ukrainian grain has mostly been delivered and continues to be delivered to the EU.

The President of the European Council’s statement represents not only a textbook case of crude EU propaganda but also a fundamentally new chapter in the history of European public opinion.

However, things that Charles Michel has held back are even more interesting.

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• The EU member states are the main beneficiaries of the Black Sea Initiative since about 40 percent of the Ukrainian agricultural products exported via this route went their way. The share of recipients from the countries that are most in need is less than 3 percent.

• Over nearly 18 months, the EU has failed to establish food exports via the “solidarity corridors” to third countries, if such a goal really existed in the first place.

• The EU needs to offset the damage to its own food security caused by unilateral sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus and ill-conceived policies in the macroeconomic, energy, and food sectors.

• The EU intentionally overstates the potential of Ukrainian agricultural output to ensure global food security (Ukraine's share of the global wheat market is no more than 5 percent).

🎙 Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TASS information agency (Moscow, September 27, 2023)

❓ Question: I have to ask about a pressing topic, Armenia. Do you think Armenia may lose Russia?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: There are plenty of those willing to lose Russia and gain new friends.

Historically, geographically and geopolitically, it is simply not possible to lose Russia by totally ignoring its interests in the South Caucasus. Yet, certain top officials in Yerevan harbour such hopes, and openly admit it.

A similar idea was alluded to in the recent remarks by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who spoke about the need to make up for the failed alliances that Armenia had expected to ensure its security, and to expand its circle of security partners.

If they are counting on the US (which directly follows from statements made by many Armenian leaders), they had better look at recent history to see how the US treated those it sought to take under its wing as it advanced its geopolitical interests in faraway territories of the world.

☝️ The fate of all these people is rather unenviable.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TASS News Agency (Moscow, September 28, 2023)

Key talking points:

• When starting to circulate provocative rumours like this, the West is obviously testing us for willingness to accept its terms, and they are not particularly subtle about it. They want to take a break for a few months without signing any agreement except a temporary ceasefire in order to gain time and pump more weapons into Ukraine.

• They cannot reproach us for lack of good will. <...> We are ready to come to terms, taking into account the realities on the ground, and based on our well-known position. It is also imperative to take into account our security interests and prevent the creation of a hostile Nazi regime on our borders.

• Historically, geographically, and geopolitically, it is not possible to lose Russia in the sense of completely disregarding its interests in the South Caucasus. However, some leaders in Yerevan are expressing such hopes openly.

• We have never had a negative attitude toward the Georgian people. We genuinely love them, just like we love all the South Caucasus nations. <...> We saw that the current government in Tbilisi is interested in normalising relations, at least in the interests of ordinary citizens.

• We don’t have unfriendly athletes, citizens, or even countries. There are unfriendly governments that have temporarily come to power in some countries whose people have always had good and friendly relations with us.

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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, September 27, 2023)

🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 UK’s involvement in the events in Bucha
🔹 Canada's Parliament celebration honouring Nazi Galicia Division criminal
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 85th anniversary of the Munich Pact
🔹 Censorship of Russian media in the West
🔹 Situation in South Caucasus

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💬 The homage paid in the Canadian Parliament on September 22 to 98-year old Bandera follower Yaroslav Gunko (Hunka), who volunteered to serve in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, accompanied by a standing ovation from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Speaker and members of the House of Commons, and Western diplomats who were invited to attend, including, characteristically, the German ambassador, continues to cause anger and condemnation even among Canada’s closest allies.

Canadian parliamentarians warmly applauded a war criminal who swore allegiance to Hitler and fought against Russians.

We consider Canada an extremely unfriendly state whose authorities have stained themselves by colluding with Nazism and betraying their own history.

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💬 The very same countries of the collective West that were the loudest when proclaiming their democracy and that tried to lecture the rest of the world have without hesitation transitioned to total censorship in their desire to suppress all outbreaks of dissent. In violation of all international obligations, they literally eradicated the sources of alternative points of view from the information space their controlled.

They got rid of the Russian media and media resources and used every repressive trick in the book: from politically motivated bans on broadcasting and blocking websites to psychological pressure on journalists and their criminal prosecution.

🗓 On September 29, Kazan hosted the 5 th meeting of the Moscow format on Afghanistan with the participation of special representatives and senior officials from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Representatives of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye also attended the meeting as invited parties. Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi took part in the meeting.

During the meeting, the Participants exchanged views on the current situation in Afghanistan with an emphasis on regional security and that country’s integration into regional economic processes. The prevailing point of view was that it was crucial to immediately and unconditionally unblock the Afghan assets by Washington and its allies, who bear the main responsibility for the post-conflict reconstruction of the Afghan economy, and that any return of US and NATO military structures to the territory of Afghanistan or its neighbouring states under any pretext was unacceptable.

☝️ The Participants once again called on the Afghan authorities to create a truly inclusive system of government reflecting the interests of all key ethno-political groups in the country and also to step up counter-terrorism and anti-drug efforts.

All the Participants gave assurances to continue providing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.

📄 At the end of the meeting, the Participants adopted the Kazan Declaration of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan.