👩‍🚒 Russia's EMERCOM (Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief) rescuers are working 24/7 in the disaster zone in Libya.

At the request of the Libyan authorities, the Russian Emergencies Ministry specialists are working in the most challenging and dangerous sections that have already been searched by other international teams.

The following relief efforts are being conducted on the ground and in the sea:
✅ dismantling overhanging and unstable structures of damaged buildings;
✅ lifting sunken boats and vehicles.

In the past 24 hours, the rescuers:
• searched more than 20,000 square metres of land, 10 kilometres of coastline, 33,000 square metres of water area;
• examined 46 facilities;
• made 12 dives from the coastline;
• evacuated 23 bodies from a hard-to-reach area, pulled 2 bodies from under rubble of collapsed buildings in an urban area.

Since the start of relief efforts, the rescuers:
• searched more than 530,000 square metres on land, 80km of coastline, 33,000 square metres of water area;
• cleared 116 cubic metres of building structures and rubble;
• extracted and evacuated 137 bodies;
• made 35 dives, lifted 2 cars to the surface;
• rendered medical aid to 522 victims, including 54 children.

Day 3 📹 #UNGA78

🇺🇳 On the Day 3, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's schedule remained tight: 12 bilaterals, frank and constructive discussions within the Friends in Defense of the UN Charter group, positive exchange of opinions in the Astana format as well... handshakes and smiles galore!

• 4th Ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the UN Charter
• Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua Denis Moncada
• Talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó
• Meeting with Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves
• Talks with Foreign Minister of Bolivia Rogelio Mayta Mayta
• Meeting with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov
• Talks with First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dačić
• Meeting with President of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly Dennis Francis
• Astana format meeting with FMs of Iran and Türkiye, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Hakan Fidan
• Talks with Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
• Meeting with Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Мexico Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
• Talks with ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric
• Meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Iraq Fuad Hussein
• Talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Guyana Hugh Todd

Stay tuned and follow our updates from the UN HQ!

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the UN General Assembly at the General Debate of #UNGA78

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement at the General Debate at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly

📍 New York, September 23, 2023

Key talking points:

🌐 Right in front of our eyes, there is a new world order being born.

❌ In 2021, our proposals to conclude agreements on mutual security guarantees in Europe without changing Ukraine's non-aligned status were rudely rejected. The West continued its ongoing militarisation of the Russophobic Kiev regime, which had been brought to power as a result of a bloody coup, and to use it to wage a hybrid war against our country.

• An attempt to extend the bloc's area of responsibility to the entire Eastern Hemisphere under the pernicious slogan of “indivisible security of the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific region” has become a new dangerous manifestation of NATO expansionism.

• The logic of the historical progress is undeniable, the main trend of which being that states constituting the global majority are strengthening their sovereignty and defending their national interests, traditions, culture, and ways of life. They no longer want to live under anybody’s yoke; they want to be friends and trade with each other, but also with the rest of the world – only on an equal footing and for mutual benefit. Associations such as #BRICS and the #SCO are on the rise.

❗️ Perhaps for the first time since 1945, when the UN was established, there is now a chance for genuine democratisation of global affairs.

• It is time to reform the existing global governance architecture, which has long been failing to meet the needs of our time. <...> The US & its allies should abandon their artificial restraints on the redistribution of voting quotas in the IMF & the World Bank.

🇺🇳 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 & artificially ensure the excessive dominance of citizens of NATO & EU countries.

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🇷🇺🇮🇶 On September 22, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq Fuad Hussein on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Ministers held a detailed exchange of views on a broad range of current issues on the international and the Middle East agenda with a focus on the situation in and around Iraq.

The Russian Minister expressed support for the Iraqi authorities’ efforts to stabilise the internal political situation in the country, address the accumulated socioeconomic and security problems, and fight terrorism.

🤝 They also broached a number of practical issues related to developing the traditionally friendly relations between Russia and Iraq and promoting Russian-Iraqi cooperation in various areas.

#RussiaIraq #UNGA78

🗓 On September 22, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric on the sidelines of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Officials discussed humanitarian activities in key regions, including Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Syria. They also discussed the parameters of the ICRC’s current work in the Russian Federation.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 On September 22, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The Ministers held an interested exchange of views on key international topics. They touched upon current regional issues with a focus on the situation in the South Caucasus.

The discussion also focused on the main issues on the bilateral agenda. Moscow and Tehran reaffirmed their intention to further enhance political dialogue at various levels and beneficial cooperation in all areas of mutual interest.

#RussiaIran #UNGA78

❗️Embassy Statement

Following the visit of the Kiev regime’s head to Canada, one cannot help but pay attention to some exclamations of the representatives of the Trudeau’s government and the Prime Minister himself. One of them is “Slava Ukraine - heroyam slava” (Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes). Who is not aware of what it really means, a quick reminder. It is an exact copy of the Nazi salute “Heil Hitler - Sieg Heil”.

The greeting was officially adopted by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B, led by Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator, who was responsible for massacres of Russians, Jews, Poles and even Ukrainians in the Soviet Union and Poland during WWII.

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Is there #Nazism in 🇨🇦?
Short answer: Yes.
The @UCCToronto ceremony honouring the 14th Waffen SS Galizien Division and @JustinTrudeau regime turning a blind eye to this and other numerous abhorrent facts is yet another evidence.
#notonazism

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“Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre declined to apologize for his standing ovation for Hunka.” (c) Ottawa Citizen

No wonder since DND has been training Ukrainian “Azov” neo-Nazis.

#justGoogleIt

❗Заявление Посла России в Канаде О.В.Степанова

Понятно, внимательно слежу за политическими и общественными дискуссиями в развитие возмутительного чествования в канадском парламенте укронацистского приспешника Ярослава Гуньки. По следам последних событий в Палате общин хотел бы обратить внимание на важный момент, который не хотят упоминать в контексте этой истории.

Члены 14-й дивизии СС «Галичина», где служил Гунька, - военные преступники, повинные в массовых убийствах русских. Это известный и доказанный факт.

Считаю, что в мультикультурном обществе, коим себя рекламирует Канада, парламент и правительство страны обязаны принести формальные и недвусмысленные извинения всем Русским и Русской общине Канады. Попытки игнорировать, исключить из памяти совершенный эсэсовскими нацистами, в том числе дивизией «Галичина», геноцид русского народа, неприемлемы. Требую реакции канадских властей.

❗Ambassador’s Statement

Hardly worth saying that I have been monitoring closely political and public discussions in the wake of the outrageous commemoration of the Ukrainian Nazi henchman Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament.Following recent developments in the House of Commons, I would like to draw attention to a fact that was omitted from the story.
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "Galicia" has committed multiple war crimes, including mass murder, against the Russian people, ethnic Russians.This is a proven fact.
In this regard,I believe that in a multicultural society of Canada, the Parliament and the Government of this country owe a formal and unequivocal apology to all Russians and the Russian Canadian community.An intention to ignore and to exclude from the memory the genocide against Russians committed by the Waffen SS,including the "Galicia" division, is unacceptable. Therefore,I am waiting for the reaction of the Canadian authorities.

Oleg Stepanov,
Ambassador of Russia in Canada

🇷🇺🇺🇳 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.