🇮🇷🇦🇲🇦🇿🇷🇺🇹🇷 Joint Communique of the Second Meeting of the 3+3 Regional Platform

✍️ Upon the invitation of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran and in presence of Ararat Mirzoyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Jeyhun Bayramov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and Hakan Fidan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye, the Second Meeting of the 3+3 Regional Platform was held on 23 October 2023 in Tehran.

The Ministers:

💬 Emphasized the importance of peaceful settlement of disputes, respect for sovereignty, political independence, territorial integrity, inviolability of internationally recognized borders, non-interference in internal affairs, prohibition on the threat or use of force and respect for human rights based on all the principles of the UN Charter.

• Discussed the most significant issues in the region and emphasized the importance of platforms like the Consultative Regional Platform “3+3” in providing opportunities for constructive dialogue and establishing mutually beneficial cooperation between the countries of the region that have the primary role in this regard.

• Emphasizing the importance of cultural cooperation, people-to-people contacts and joint projects in the field of education, science, tourism, culture and sports.

• In order to enhance lasting peace and economic development of the region, they will strengthen bilateral and multilateral consultation and interaction.

• Welcoming the ongoing processes of normalization and development of relations between all the countries of the region.

• Reaffirmed the openness of this Platform for equal participation of Georgia.

• Exchanged views on the situation in Gaza. They emphasized the need for immediate termination of targeting innocent civilians.

🤝 They agreed that the next meeting will be held in Türkiye on a date that will be coordinated through diplomatic channels.

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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry's Deputy Spokesperson Alexey Zaytsev (Moscow, October 20, 2023)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Russia denounces Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
🔹 Poland’s visa-related harassment of the Russian civil society
🔹 Russophobic action of the Australian authorities
🔹 50th anniversary of oil production limits imposed by OPEC countries to protest US policy in the Middle East
🔹 BRICS+ International Municipal Forum
🔹 75 years of United Nations’ work in Moscow

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#MiddleEast

We are prioritising steps to provide security to Russians in Israel and in the Palestinian territories. We are in constant contact with them via Russian diplomatic missions and consulates and are working with our partners to organise the safe evacuation of Russian citizens, who have applied for help, from the zone of hostilities. As of today, about 1,000 persons, including citizens of CIS countries and their family members, have submitted relevant applications.

We want to emphasise once again that the current spiral in the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation is the direct consequence of the West disregarding the existing UN and Security Council resolutions and actually blocking the performance of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators, which includes Russia, the US, the EU and the UN.

#Ukraine

Today, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis follow in the footsteps of their ideological predecessors from the Third Reich. They deliver artillery and missile strikes at peaceful Russian cities and villages with particular cynicism, causing pain and suffering to local residents and ruthlessly destroying civilian infrastructure. It is not accidental that the notorious Nazi from the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), Yaroslav Hunka, described Vladimir Zelensky as a “worthy successor” to his cause.

🇺🇳 The UN Charter entered into force 7️⃣8️⃣ years ago, having been signed at the concluding session of the UN Conference on International Organisation in San Francisco on June 26, 1945. This is the official date of the founding of the UN.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: It is critical to endeavor to turn the spirit of multipolarity enshrined in the UN Charter into reality. An increasing number of countries from the global majority seek to strengthen their sovereignty and uphold their national interests, traditions, culture, and way of life.

🇷🇺 Russia consistently calls for strengthening the UN’s central and coordinating role in global affairs.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: It is time to look at fairer methods of making up the UN Secretariat. The criteria that have been in place for many years do not reflect the actual influence of states in global affairs and artificially ensure the excessive dominance of citizens of NATO and EU countries.

👉 Article Adherence to the UN Charter principles in their entirety and interconnection underwrite international peace and stability by Sergey Lavrov (October 10, 2023)

#UNCharterIsOurRules

📹 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to participants in the No Statute of Limitations international forum (October 24, 2023)

▫️ Seventy-seven years ago, on October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered a historic verdict, condemning the main Nazi war criminals and legally securing the defeat of the Hitler regime.

▫️ The Nuremberg Trials opened a new page in the development of international law. The foundation of the modern system of international criminal justice was laid then.

▫️ It is generally recognised that the Nazi atrocities have no statute of limitations. Our country continues ambitious work to investigate newly discovered facts of criminal acts committed by the Nazi invaders.

▫️ The fact that a number of European countries, primarily Ukraine and the Baltic states, are systematically destroying historical memory, causes particular concern. It has gone so far that honours are now bestowed without hesitation to former Nazis.

▫️ I would like to remind representatives of the criminal Kiev regime and its Western patrons that, according to the materials of the Nuremberg Trials, almost 200,000 civilians were tortured to death, shot and poisoned in Kiev alone. Many of them were killed by the SS.

▫️ In 1942, the Nazi criminal Reichskommissar Erich Koch wrote in the address to the heads of the German media that Ukraine was nothing but an object of exploitation, that it should pay the expenses of the war, and its population, being second-rate people, should be utilised for the tasks of the war, even if they have to be caught with a lasso.

▫️ The “historical West” led by the US is de facto sharing a similar sentiment and is ready to contain Russia to the last Ukrainian.

▫️ Against this backdrop, the fight against falsifying the results of the Second World War and spreading a misanthropic ideology are among the key priorities of Russian diplomacy.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to organisers and guests of an official United Nations Day reception (Moscow, October 24, 2023)

💬 Today, when the world is experiencing genuine tectonic shifts linked with the creation of a multipolar system, it is hard to overestimate the significance of the UN in promoting equitable interstate cooperation and searching for concerted answers to numerous challenges and threats.

Owing to its universal legitimacy, the UN boasts unique capabilities for facilitating multilateral interaction in multiple spheres, including efforts to maintain international peace and security, protecting human rights and ensuring sustainable socio-economic development.

Consequently, genuine multilateralism is inseparably linked with the UN and the principles of the UN Charter. No organisations established on a limited scale outside the UN framework can claim the right to express the opinion of the entire international community.

As a UN co-founding state and as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia comprehends its special responsibility for the future destiny of this highly important international body. We will closely coordinate our actions with our supporters, and we will continue to enhance the effectiveness of the UN, including within the framework of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations.

🇷🇺🇺🇳 We are certainly ready to continue constructive dialogue with UN representatives in Russia.

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#UNCharterIsOurRules

🔴 #LIVE: Voting on the US and Russian draft resolutions of the UN Security Council on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues

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🎙 From the statements by Andrey Belousov, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federationin the First Committee of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly (New York, 25 October 2023)

At the Thematic Debate on «Regional Disarmament and Security»:

💬 Given the current lack of trust as well as the obviously hostile attitude on the part of Washington and the collective Brussels, it is unreasonable and naive to expect any progress towards revising the state of conventional arms control in Europe (CACE). Any dialogue on a new CACE version will only be possible if the West abandons its hostile anti-Russian policy. Shaping such a regime in future will undoubtedly require fundamentally new approaches while taking into account Russia's national interests as an imperative.

At the Thematic Debate on «Disarmament Machinery»:

💬 The leading role in addressing arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation issues, as well as issues of international peace and global security, should be played by the United Nations, as was intended when the Organization was established. The strengthening of existing arms control regimes and the development of new ones should be carried out either through active conventional mechanisms or through the UN disarmament machinery. Only such a principle can ensure genuine multilateralism in disarmament and take into account the security interests of the stakeholders.

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko (Minsk, October 26, 2023)

💬 Thank you very much for the invitation and the idea of holding the High-level International Conference Eurasian Security: Reality and Prospects in a Transforming World.

It is especially important now when Europe, as dictated by the Americans, decided to divide our united, large and rich in mineral resources continent, which was given to us by God and history, into two camps.

👉 This happened before, during the Soviet era and the Cold War, but even then our economic ties were not severed. Today, Europe is suffering direct losses because of Washington’s pressure.

Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergey Aleinik mentioned our readiness to cooperate with everyone but only as equal and honest partners. Foreign Minister Szijjarto said the same.

I pointed out that we hold the door to these processes open to everyone. But if Europe prefers to shut itself off, we will have to move from the division of labour to independent and sovereign production of everything we need for development and security.

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🔴 #LIVE: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the first meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on Caspian Co-operation.

📍 Moscow, October 27, 2023

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🔴 #LIVE: The UN Security Council holds a meeting on Ukraine on Russia's initiative

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