🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 9, 2023

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• Hypocrisy and duplicity have become an intrinsic part of Western diplomacy.

• Figures graphically prove that the West is striving to make as much money as possible from the conflict in Ukraine. Last year, its national debt increased by $13 billion to $111 billion. Even the most advanced country with a prosperous economy and industry and rapid growth rates would not be able to pay off $111 billion. For today’s Ukraine this amount is an excuse to take everything that remains of the Zelensky rule.

• The Ukrainian authorities have once again confirmed that they fraudulently deceived the world community and were not really going to fulfil their obligations under the Minsk Package of Measures as endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2202.

• The Ukrainian heirs to Nazi organisations have once again demonstrated their desire to continue the cause of their “heroes,” who are knee deep in the blood of thousands of Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Poles and people of other ethnicities.

• By imposing new unilateral restrictions that undermine the international legal prerogatives of the UN Security Council, the European Union has once again demonstrated double standards, ignored the presumption of innocence principle and presented no evidence, while hypocritically hushing up the obvious offences committed by Ukrainian militants in Donbass and in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of the Russian Federation.

• Despite the continuous scheming against Russian culture and our outstanding performers in some Western countries, including the cancellation of exhibitions and concerts, arbitrary declaration of world-renowned Russian artists and poets Ukrainians, passion for Russian culture in its modern and historical dimension does not subside in the world.

• The United States has once again defiantly denied visas to several members of the Russian interdepartmental delegation without any reason. Creating obstacles to the participation of our delegation in the session of the UN OEWG amounts to undermining the principle of the sovereign equality of states, which is a fundamental provision of the UN Charter.

• When we began hearing statements about Europe “needing” to abandon Russian hydrocarbons, it was clear that the United States was behind this. They didn’t make a secret of it.

• A possible military operation in Haiti planned by the United States and its allies are aimed not so much at stabilising – as declared – the security situation in Haiti as at mopping up the political landscape in the interests of certain leaders who have received a “wholesale indulgence” and a “right to power” from their western patrons.

• We are building our relations with Serbia on an age-old foundation of friendship and spiritual affinity between the peoples of the two countries and with account taken of the economic benefit. Cooperation with our Serbian partners is not directed against third countries. It strengthens security and serves the goals of development.

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❗️ #DebunkingMyths spread by the EU leadership

Myths:

None of the EU’s sanctions adopted against Russia prevent the supply of agri-food... Agricultural machinery per se is also not subject to any export ban.

This is in line with the geopolitical role of Russia, which uses ... its wheat to advance its geopolitics, which we must fight with greater determination.

Up until today, [President of Russia Vladimir] Putin has been ramping up illegal aggression weaponising winter, food and hunger.

Russia has abused its dominance in gas supplies and fertilisers as a political weapon.

Facts:

The High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the majority of the European Parliament members have stated that the EU considered Russian wheat exports nothing less than a geopolitical tool or a political weapon, which the EU intends to stand up to going forward, if only with greater determination. Thus, Josep Borrell has disavowed his own statement about the EU unilateral anti-Russian sanctions not being directed against Russian food and fertiliser supplies.

⚠️ It has become clear that creating obstacles for Russian grain accessing the world markets, including the countries that are most in need, is not a side effect of the sanctions, but one of their goals.

The interests of the international community are ignored.

The EU seeks to cause harm to Russia at any cost, even at the cost of hunger in needy countries.

🎙 Statement by Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin following the consultations of the Russian interministerial delegation with Rebeca Grynspan and Martin Griffiths

💬 We have just concluded the next round of consultations between the Russian interministerial delegation and the UN representatives headed by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary General Rebeca Grynspan and the Head of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Martin Griffiths.

Focus of the discussion – implementation of the "package" agreements concluded in Istanbul on July 22, 2022. Let me remind that they consist of two interrelated parts – the "Black Sea Initiative" on the export of Ukrainian food and raw materials for fertilizers, including ammonia, and the Russia-UN Memorandum on the normalization of domestic agricultural exports.

The comprehensive and frank conversation has once again confirmed that while the commercial export of Ukrainian products is carried out at a steady pace, bringing considerable profits to Kiev, restrictions on the Russian agricultural exporters are still in place. The sanctions exemptions for food and fertilizers announced by Washington, Brussels and London are essentially inactive.

❗️ In this regard, the Russian Side, noting the "package" nature of the “Istanbul Agreements” proposed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, does not object to another extension of the "Black Sea Initiative" after its second term expiration on March 18, but only for 60 days.

Our further stance will be determined upon the tangible progress on normalization of our agricultural exports, not in words, but in deeds. It includes bank payments, transport logistics, insurance, "unfreezing" of financial activities and ammonia supplies via the “Tolyatti-Odessa” pipeline.

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❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ Russia does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague;

▪️ Russia highly appreciates the position of Serbia, which did not join the sanctions in the face of unprecedented pressure;

▪️ Russia highly appreciates the efforts of a number of countries to steer the Ukrainian conflict towards peace, but so far this is not possible;

▪️ With the current position of Kiev, the goals of the special operation can only be achieved by military means.

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