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🇷🇺🇭🇳 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Honduras Eduardo Enrique Reina on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s 78th Session.

During the conversation, the two Ministers discussed the current state and future of political, trade, economic, humanitarian and other kinds of cooperation between Russia and Honduras, as well as ways to further develop the contractual legal framework governing the bilateral relations between the two countries.

Sergey Lavrov and Eduardo Enrique Reina exchanged views on topical global and regional matters and discussed bilateral interaction on the international stage, primarily within the United Nations, and as part of Russia’s dialogue with Central American countries.

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🇷🇺🇯🇴 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ayman Safadi on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

During the conversation, an in-depth discussion of the key issues on the Middle East agenda took place with an emphasis on the Palestine-Israeli and Syrian settlement processes.

The two Ministers noted the same or similar fundamental approaches to resolving the ongoing crises in the Middle East, which have a negative impact on regional and global stability and security, within the context of compliance with the fundamental international norms.

The developments in Ukraine were raised in the context of the collective West’s attempts to provide unbridled support to the regime in Kiev.

In addition, ways to further promote traditionally friendly bilateral relations, including maintaining the political dialogue at the high and highest levels, were discussed.

#RussiaJordan #UNGA78
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📆 On September 20 in New York, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the working meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member countries organised as part of the Belarusian chairmanship in the CSTO.

The discussion spanned a wide range of international and regional security issues.

The participants stressed the need to step up mutual coordination on the United Nations platform with regard to the current UN agenda and to further strengthen the CSTO’s interaction with the UN, in part, with respect to its peacekeeping efforts.

The Ministers reviewed the preparations for the upcoming Collective Security Council session scheduled to be held in Minsk on November 23.
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🗓 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in an ad hoc meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Foreign Ministers Council in New York.

The meeting agenda included the issues of further consolidation and development of the #SCO in the context of improving its efficiency in the current reality. The meeting participants discussed the progress in implementing the decisions made at the highest level. The national coordinators of the SCO Member States were instructed to expedite the drafting of concrete proposals.

The Foreign Ministers exchanged opinions on the key global and regional issues and confirmed their shared commitment to jointly combatting security challenges and threats in the interests of ensuring stability and sustainable development in the SCO region. The meeting participants emphasised their intent to boost interaction between the SCO and the UN, as well as build ties with other multilateral associations.

The Member States will continue to deepen foreign policy coordination, including the agenda of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.
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🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

The Parties discussed the latest developments around Nagorno-Karabakh. Vladimir Putin noted with satisfaction that the most serious stage of the conflict had been overcome, and he welcomed the agreement, reached with support from the Russian peacekeepers, on the complete cessation of hostilities and on holding talks between Baku and Stepanakert on September 21. The talks will be mediated by the leaders of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.

Despite the harsh circumstances, the peacekeepers are firmly fulfilling their objectives, and they render overall assistance, including with military doctors, to civilians and refugees.

The Leaders expressed hope that the situation would turn towards de-escalation and stabilisation.
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🗓 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

The meeting participants exchanged opinions on the main areas of the agency’s activity and discussed in detail the security of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. The Russian Party confirmed its intent to continue the further interaction with the agency in order to curb threats to the nuclear power plant posed by the Kiev regime and to provide for its normal functioning.

Sergey Lavrov and Rafael Grossi also noted the long-term harmful impact of the use of depleted uranium munitions which the collective West is supplying to the Kiev regime.
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🎙 Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, September 19, 2023)

🔷 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔷 Ukrainian crisis
🔷 Crimes of Ukrainian nationalists
🔷 Ukraine’s responsibility for the deterioration of the environment in the region
🔷 #RussiaArmenia relations
🔷 Attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2
🔷 Restrictions on the Foreign Ministry’s YouTube account
🔷 Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh

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💬 We can see some Western countries’ attempts to whitewash and canonise Ukrainian neo-Nazis. For example, the city authorities allowed the holding of a photo exhibition dedicated to the Nazi Azov battalion in Milan, on one of the city streets and in the Risorgimento Museum. Militants of this terrorist organisation are presented as “defenders” of Mariupol there. <...> A biased article in Le Figaro, France, about the Azov and Right Sector neo-Nazi organisations, whose members are depicted almost as patriots, is another outrageous example.

All these facts provoke outrage, and I would like to ask the Italians and French a question: when your journalists and politicians are trying to whitewash Ukrainian neo-Nazis and present them in such a heroic light, do you remember what your countries went through during World War II?

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💬 The decisions by the UK and the United States to supply Kiev with depleted uranium munitions have had dire long-term consequences for the region. As a result, water and soil in a vast territory have been contaminated with radiation.

Some international experts are trying to talk their way out of this situation, claiming that this is not really a nuclear security issue. Of course, there is no need to explain. We should consider this problem not only from the point of view of physics, but also of chemistry. There are no options there other than to call it a global-scale disaster.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the BRICS Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly (New York, September 20, 2023)

💬 I would like to thank our South African friends for their productive chairmanship in the past period. The BRICS Summit in Johannesburg and the Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations in Cape Town were a great success.

Documents have been drafted that provide a solid framework for the future development of our association. I am primarily referring to the six new full members that joined our ranks: Argentina, Egypt, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia.

🤝 All these countries support the fundamental goals and values of #BRICS, including the spirit of solidarity, equality, mutual respect, openness, inclusiveness and mutually beneficial cooperation based on consensus. I have no doubt that our new partners and colleagues will contribute to the association’s development.

This was a long overdue and much awaited step that confirmed that the collective voice of BRICS in defence of the global South and global majority is highly relevant in modern international relations.

More and more Asian, African and Latin American states are consolidating their economic positions and demonstrating that they are willing and ready to defend their sovereign national interests and influence global processes. We are witnessing the emergence of a more equitable, polycentric world order.

☝️ The unipolar world is becoming a thing of the past.

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🗓 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The meeting participants noted the importance of enhancing interaction between Russia and the Arab League in the interests of settling crisis situations in the Middle East and North Africa and strengthening security and stability in the region.

🤝 In this regard, they confirmed their interest in holding the 6th ministerial session of the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum in accordance with earlier agreements.
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🇷🇺🇻🇪 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a conversation with Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Yvan Gil on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

During their meeting, held in a traditionally trusting atmosphere, the Ministers confirmed the concurrence of Russia and Venezuela’s approaches to current international problems and outlined plans to step up foreign policy coordination, specifically at the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter.

They noted the dynamic development of their countries’ bilateral relations in the context of strategic partnership and agreed on taking steps to promote these relations in every way with a focus on strengthening the political dialogue, stepping up trade, investment, scientific and technological ties, expanding cultural and humanitarian exchanges, and improving the contractual and legal infrastructure.

Sergey Lavrov has supported the Bolivarian authorities’ consistent efforts to ensure internal political stability and advance along the path of sustainable socioeconomic development. He welcomed Caracas’ initiatives in regional affairs and its contribution to intensifying the integration processes on the continent and promoting the rapprochement between Latin America and the EAEU.
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Day 1 📹 #UNGA78

🇷🇺🇺🇳 On September 20, the Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived at the UN Headquarters in New York to participate in the High-Level week of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.

The first working day was a success 👇

• Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan Ayman Safadi.
• Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Honduras Eduardo Enrique Reina.
• Conversation with Foreign Minister of Venezuela Yvan Gil.
• Working meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the CSTO member countries.
• Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations.
FM Lavrov's remarks at the UN Security Council meeting.
• Ad hoc meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers Council.
• Meeting with Director General of IAEA Rafael Grossi.
• Meeting with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit.

#ICYMI
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🇷🇺🇾🇪 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi hold talks.

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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the UNSC meeting “Upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter through effective multilateralism: maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine” (New York, September 20, 2023)

Key
talking points:

• When the Cold War came to an end, the US-led so-called collective West appropriated the right to rule the destinies of the entire humankind and, driven by its exceptionalism complex, started ignoring the legacy of the UN founding fathers more often and on an increasingly greater scale.

• The West makes selective use of the Charter’s norms and principles, on a case-by-case basis, and only when they serve its vested geopolitical needs. This inevitably throws global stability off-balance, exacerbating the existing hotbeds of tension and creating new ones.

• As for talks, we do not refuse to talk now either. President of Russia Vladimir Putin said this on numerous occasions, including recently. <...> President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky has signed an executive order prohibiting talks with the government of Vladimir Putin. If the US is interested in such talks, I think it only needs to give the signal for Zelensky’s order to be cancelled.

• Today, the rhetoric of our opponents is full of slogans such as “invasion,” “aggression” and “annexation.” They do not say a word about the inner reasons for the problem, or the fact that for many years they nurtured a downright Nazi regime, which is openly rewriting the results of World War II and the history of their own people.

• While chanting their mantras about the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the former colonial powers keep silent about the UN decisions inviting France to return the island of Mayotte to the Comoros and Britain to withdraw from the Chagos Islands and to resume negotiations with Argentina to resolve the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) issue.

• Facts point to a deep crisis in international relations and the absence of the Western countries’ desire and will to overcome this crisis.

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#UNGA78
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🇷🇺🇪🇬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt Sameh Shoukry.

#RussiaEgypt #UNGA78
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🇷🇺🇦🇿📞 President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

Ilham Aliyev offered his apology and deepest condolences following the tragic death of members of the Russian Peacekeeping Corps (RPC) on September 20 in Karabakh. He emphasised that the incident will be thoroughly investigated and all those responsible will be held accountable. The Prosecutor General’s Offices of the two countries are keeping in close contact with regard to the matter. The President of Azerbaijan also expressed readiness to offer financial aid to the families of the killed officers.

Both Parties noted the importance of consistently implementing the agreements reached with the assistance of the Russian peacekeepers on complete cessation of hostilities in Karabakh. The talks that began between the representatives of Baku and Stepanakert, with the peacekeepers’ mediation, have particular importance in this context.

The Parties considered priority steps towards stabilising the situation and overcoming humanitarian issues in the region. Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of protecting the rights and security of the Armenian population in Karabakh. Azerbaijan confirmed its readiness to cooperate on these matters with the Russian peacekeepers.

The two Leaders agreed to intensify the talks within the framework of the 2020–2022 highest-level trilateral agreements, primarily with respect to unblocking transport connections, delimitating the Azerbaijan-Armenia border and drafting a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan.
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🇷🇺🇹🇭 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara.

#RussiaThailand #UNGA78
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🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 On September 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired a traditional meeting of the BRICS Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. According to the established practice, the meeting was organised by the Russian Side as the next BRICS Chair.

The Ministers exchanged views on a wide range of current international issues, including those on the agenda of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. They considered ways of promoting peace and security, global economic stability and sustainable development.

The Parties reaffirmed their intention to enhance the coordination of the #BRICS format at international platforms, relying on the members’ commitment to multilateralism and the vision of a more equitable world order with the central role of the United Nations and governed by international law.

The participants reviewed certain aspects of interaction within the BRICS framework in the context of the decisions made at the XV BRICS Summit, held on August 22-24 in South Africa. Sergey Lavrov informed his colleagues about Russia’s plans for chairing BRICS in 2024.

Following the meeting, the Ministers approved a joint communiqué.

#UNGA78
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🎙 Watch in full Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the preparatory Ministerial dedicated to the Summit of the Future Summit in 2024.

📍New York

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🤝 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in a working lunch of #CICA Foreign Ministers under the chairmanship of the Republic of #Kazakhstan on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly.

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