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⚔️ On July 17, 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad began, one of the largest engagements in history and the most important stage of the Great Patriotic War. More than 3 mln soldiers and officers clashed in mortal combat.
♦️ One of the heroes of Stalingrad, Vasily Chuikov, is believed to have made a decisive contribution to the victory. Initially the commander of the 64th Army, he was then appointed to command the 62nd Army and given an order to defend Stalingrad at any cost. The army under his command gained glory for the heroic six-month defence in the devastated city where they had to fight on isolated bridgeheads.
♦️ The victory at Stalingrad paved the way for the deployment of a general Red Army offensive and the final expulsion of the invaders from the occupied territory of the USSR. It raised the international status of the Soviet Union and its armed forces, and strengthened the anti-Hitler coalition. The battle was the turning point in World War II, where the strategic initiative passed to the Red Army.
♦️ One of the heroes of Stalingrad, Vasily Chuikov, is believed to have made a decisive contribution to the victory. Initially the commander of the 64th Army, he was then appointed to command the 62nd Army and given an order to defend Stalingrad at any cost. The army under his command gained glory for the heroic six-month defence in the devastated city where they had to fight on isolated bridgeheads.
♦️ The victory at Stalingrad paved the way for the deployment of a general Red Army offensive and the final expulsion of the invaders from the occupied territory of the USSR. It raised the international status of the Soviet Union and its armed forces, and strengthened the anti-Hitler coalition. The battle was the turning point in World War II, where the strategic initiative passed to the Red Army.
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: Possible mis- interpretation of sanctions could lead to over-compliance or market avoidance. The EU is ready to further clarify to economic operators what is and what is not targeted in our sanctions. Not the whole financial system of Russia is de-SWIFTed and if some financial institutions decide voluntarily not to participate in this trade the cause is over-compliance.
✅ Fact: It is the EU countries that have been delegated the right to impose a system of fines and penalties for violation of restrictions and it have been constituted to the national level. This could result in 27 interpretations of the same action.
Since February 2022, the EU has introduced six packages of illegitimate anti-Russia sanctions. The European Commission has issued over 200 pages of “explanations” for these restrictions but it says on the first page of this document that they are not legally binding. In this case, Brussels is not entitled to make any decisions for the EU states.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: Possible mis- interpretation of sanctions could lead to over-compliance or market avoidance. The EU is ready to further clarify to economic operators what is and what is not targeted in our sanctions. Not the whole financial system of Russia is de-SWIFTed and if some financial institutions decide voluntarily not to participate in this trade the cause is over-compliance.
✅ Fact: It is the EU countries that have been delegated the right to impose a system of fines and penalties for violation of restrictions and it have been constituted to the national level. This could result in 27 interpretations of the same action.
Since February 2022, the EU has introduced six packages of illegitimate anti-Russia sanctions. The European Commission has issued over 200 pages of “explanations” for these restrictions but it says on the first page of this document that they are not legally binding. In this case, Brussels is not entitled to make any decisions for the EU states.
#Think4Yourself
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.
✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in of its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.
In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. In reality, a bad situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.
✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in of its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.
In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. In reality, a bad situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.
#Think4Yourself
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✍️ Russian FM Sergey Lavrov’s article «Staged incidents as the Western approach to doing politics», published in Izvestia newspaper
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🔹 All the good relations talk, the West’s proclaimed readiness to take into account the rights and interests of Russians who ended up in independent Ukraine or other post-Soviet countries after the collapse of the USSR turned out to be mere pretence.
🔹 Ukraine, Moldova and other countries being courted by the EU today are destined to be extras in the games of the West.
🔹 The collective West should come back to Earth from the world of illusions. The staged incidents, no matter how long they go on, will not work. It is time for fair play based on the international law rather than cheating.
🔹 The sooner everyone realises that there are no alternatives to objective historical processes where a multipolar world is formed based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality of states, fundamental for the UN Charter and the entire world order, the better.
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🔹 All the good relations talk, the West’s proclaimed readiness to take into account the rights and interests of Russians who ended up in independent Ukraine or other post-Soviet countries after the collapse of the USSR turned out to be mere pretence.
🔹 Ukraine, Moldova and other countries being courted by the EU today are destined to be extras in the games of the West.
🔹 The collective West should come back to Earth from the world of illusions. The staged incidents, no matter how long they go on, will not work. It is time for fair play based on the international law rather than cheating.
🔹 The sooner everyone realises that there are no alternatives to objective historical processes where a multipolar world is formed based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality of states, fundamental for the UN Charter and the entire world order, the better.
✍️ Points clés de l’article du ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrov publié dans le journal russe «Izvestiya»
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🔹 La politique occidentale consiste à fabriquer une infox, à attiser son ampleur jusqu'à une catastrophe planétaire pendant deux ou trois jours tout en bloquant l'accès de la population aux informations et avis alternatifs. Quand des faits font surface, ils sont complètement ignorés ou, dans le meilleur des cas, sont mentionnés en petits caractères;
🔹 L'Occident collectif aurait dû revenir sur Terre depuis un monde d'illusions. Les mises en scène, même si elles se poursuivent, ne fonctionneront pas. Il est temps de jouer franc jeu, de ne pas tricher et de respecter finalement le droit international.
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🔹 La politique occidentale consiste à fabriquer une infox, à attiser son ampleur jusqu'à une catastrophe planétaire pendant deux ou trois jours tout en bloquant l'accès de la population aux informations et avis alternatifs. Quand des faits font surface, ils sont complètement ignorés ou, dans le meilleur des cas, sont mentionnés en petits caractères;
🔹 L'Occident collectif aurait dû revenir sur Terre depuis un monde d'illusions. Les mises en scène, même si elles se poursuivent, ne fonctionneront pas. Il est temps de jouer franc jeu, de ne pas tricher et de respecter finalement le droit international.
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: President Putin is deliberately blocking the wheat supply of the world.
✅ Fact: According to UN statistics, 800 million tonnes of grain is produced annually around the world. Thus, the estimated 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain cannot radically resolve the problem by definition.
Also the EU is still dependent on forage crop imports, mostly corn, that is why while shouting from the rooftops about the urgent need to save Ukrainian cereals, the EU is primarily concerned with its own food security.
Russia has never blocked grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. On the contrary, we are doing our best to provide two humanitarian maritime corridors in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The problem is the high mine hazard and Kiev’s threats to fire at ships. This makes safe navigation in its territorial waters impossible.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: President Putin is deliberately blocking the wheat supply of the world.
✅ Fact: According to UN statistics, 800 million tonnes of grain is produced annually around the world. Thus, the estimated 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain cannot radically resolve the problem by definition.
Also the EU is still dependent on forage crop imports, mostly corn, that is why while shouting from the rooftops about the urgent need to save Ukrainian cereals, the EU is primarily concerned with its own food security.
Russia has never blocked grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. On the contrary, we are doing our best to provide two humanitarian maritime corridors in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The problem is the high mine hazard and Kiev’s threats to fire at ships. This makes safe navigation in its territorial waters impossible.
#Think4Yourself
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: Russia has put a tax on exports making the prices go up.
✅ Fact: Introducing export duties or export quotas on some commodities is a forced measure designed to protect the domestic market from price fluctuations and to stabilise prices. The food and energy crisis caused by the West’s selfish policies has forced many countries to take this path.
The Russian Government introduced export duties on cereals in early 2021 and allocated quotas for grain exports as early as 2020. This has nothing to do with the Ukrainian crisis.
The Russian Government uses the revenues yielded by export duties to expand production infrastructure. This helps boost agricultural exports and stabilise the international food market, which has been shattered by the West’s policies.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: Russia has put a tax on exports making the prices go up.
✅ Fact: Introducing export duties or export quotas on some commodities is a forced measure designed to protect the domestic market from price fluctuations and to stabilise prices. The food and energy crisis caused by the West’s selfish policies has forced many countries to take this path.
The Russian Government introduced export duties on cereals in early 2021 and allocated quotas for grain exports as early as 2020. This has nothing to do with the Ukrainian crisis.
The Russian Government uses the revenues yielded by export duties to expand production infrastructure. This helps boost agricultural exports and stabilise the international food market, which has been shattered by the West’s policies.
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🇷🇺🇮🇷 President Vladimir Putin and President of Iran Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi held talks in Tehran.
💬 Vladimir Putin: I am very pleased to be here today with our friends on hospitable Iranian land.
Our relations have been developing at a good pace, indeed. We boast record figures in trade growth. We are strengthening our cooperation on international security and making a tangible contribution to settling the Syrian conflict.
💬 Vladimir Putin: I am very pleased to be here today with our friends on hospitable Iranian land.
Our relations have been developing at a good pace, indeed. We boast record figures in trade growth. We are strengthening our cooperation on international security and making a tangible contribution to settling the Syrian conflict.
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🇷🇺🇹🇷 President Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Astana troika summit.
💬 Vladimir Putin: I would like to thank you for your mediation efforts, for granting a Turkish platform for talks on food problems, on the export of grain via the Black Sea. We made progress with your mediation. True, not all problems have yet been resolved, but there is progress and that is good enough.
Of course, we have many issues on the Syrian settlement. But promising, large-scale bilateral projects are also making headway. Of course, another big issue – settlement of the Karabakh problem – is at the centre of our attention. Recently, I met with the President of Azerbaijan at the Caspian summit. He sent his best wishes to you.
💬 Vladimir Putin: I would like to thank you for your mediation efforts, for granting a Turkish platform for talks on food problems, on the export of grain via the Black Sea. We made progress with your mediation. True, not all problems have yet been resolved, but there is progress and that is good enough.
Of course, we have many issues on the Syrian settlement. But promising, large-scale bilateral projects are also making headway. Of course, another big issue – settlement of the Karabakh problem – is at the centre of our attention. Recently, I met with the President of Azerbaijan at the Caspian summit. He sent his best wishes to you.
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🇷🇺🇮🇷🇹🇷 Joint Statement by the Presidents of Russia, Iran and Türkiye:
🔹 Emphasized the leading role of the Astana Process in peaceful and sustainable settlement of the Syrian crisis.
🔹 Emphasized their unwavering commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria.
🔹Expressed their opposition to the illegal seizure and transfer of oil revenues that should belong to Syria.
🔹 Expressed grave concern at the humanitarian situation in Syria and rejected all unilateral sanctions which are in contravention of international law, international humanitarian law and the UN Charter.
🔹 Reaffirmed their conviction that there could be no military solution to the Syrian conflict and that it could only be resolved through the Syrian-led and Syrian-owned, UN-facilitated political process in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
🔹 Decided to hold the next Tripartite Summit in Russia.
🔹 Emphasized the leading role of the Astana Process in peaceful and sustainable settlement of the Syrian crisis.
🔹 Emphasized their unwavering commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria.
🔹Expressed their opposition to the illegal seizure and transfer of oil revenues that should belong to Syria.
🔹 Expressed grave concern at the humanitarian situation in Syria and rejected all unilateral sanctions which are in contravention of international law, international humanitarian law and the UN Charter.
🔹 Reaffirmed their conviction that there could be no military solution to the Syrian conflict and that it could only be resolved through the Syrian-led and Syrian-owned, UN-facilitated political process in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
🔹 Decided to hold the next Tripartite Summit in Russia.
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🎙 Speech by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the summit of the guarantor states of the #AstanaProcess
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🔹 Owing to the assistance and support of our countries, the level of violence in #Syria has decreased significantly; peaceful life is returning and the country is gradually rebuilding its economy and social sphere.
🔹 Our task for the near future is to agree on specific steps to promote the intra-Syrian inclusive political dialogue, that is, to implement our agreement on creating conditions that will allow the Syrians to determine their future themselves, without outside interference.
🔹 The Western states led by the US are strongly encouraging separatist sentiment in some areas of the country and plundering its natural resources with a view to ultimately pulling the Syrian state apart.
☝️ So, it would be best to take extra steps in our trilateral format aimed at stabilising the situation in those areas and at returning control to the legitimate government of Syria.
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🔹 Owing to the assistance and support of our countries, the level of violence in #Syria has decreased significantly; peaceful life is returning and the country is gradually rebuilding its economy and social sphere.
🔹 Our task for the near future is to agree on specific steps to promote the intra-Syrian inclusive political dialogue, that is, to implement our agreement on creating conditions that will allow the Syrians to determine their future themselves, without outside interference.
🔹 The Western states led by the US are strongly encouraging separatist sentiment in some areas of the country and plundering its natural resources with a view to ultimately pulling the Syrian state apart.
☝️ So, it would be best to take extra steps in our trilateral format aimed at stabilising the situation in those areas and at returning control to the legitimate government of Syria.
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🎙 In conclusion of his working visit to Iran, Vladimir Putin answered questions from the media:
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🔸 All of us believe that US troops should leave Syria. This is the first point. And they should stop looting the Syrian state, the Syrian people, taking their oil illegally.
🔸 We would facilitate the Ukrainian grain exports provided all the restrictions on the potential exports of Russian grain are lifted. This is what we initially agreed upon with international organisations.
🔸 They [european countries] are big experts on non-traditional relations, and they have also decided to make a bid for non-traditional energy sources like the sun and wind. Last winter was long, there wasno wind, and that did it.
🔸 Gazprom has always fulfilled and will always fulfil all of its obligations, as long as, of course, anyone needs it. First, they themselves close everything, and then they look for someone to blame – it would be comical if it were not so sad.
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🔸 All of us believe that US troops should leave Syria. This is the first point. And they should stop looting the Syrian state, the Syrian people, taking their oil illegally.
🔸 We would facilitate the Ukrainian grain exports provided all the restrictions on the potential exports of Russian grain are lifted. This is what we initially agreed upon with international organisations.
🔸 They [european countries] are big experts on non-traditional relations, and they have also decided to make a bid for non-traditional energy sources like the sun and wind. Last winter was long, there wasno wind, and that did it.
🔸 Gazprom has always fulfilled and will always fulfil all of its obligations, as long as, of course, anyone needs it. First, they themselves close everything, and then they look for someone to blame – it would be comical if it were not so sad.
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🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin attended the plenary session of the forum Strong Ideas for a New Time
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🔸 The model of total domination by the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this golden billion, which is only part of the global population, dominate everyone else and enforce its rules of conduct that are based on the illusion of exceptionalism?
🔸 No matter how much the West and the supranational elite strive to preserve the existing order, a new era and a new stage in world history are coming. Only genuinely sovereign states are in a position to ensure a high growth dynamic
🔸 Sovereignty is about freedom of national development, and thus, the development of every individual. It is about the technological, cultural, intellectual and educational solvency of a state – that is what it is.
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🔸 The model of total domination by the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this golden billion, which is only part of the global population, dominate everyone else and enforce its rules of conduct that are based on the illusion of exceptionalism?
🔸 No matter how much the West and the supranational elite strive to preserve the existing order, a new era and a new stage in world history are coming. Only genuinely sovereign states are in a position to ensure a high growth dynamic
🔸 Sovereignty is about freedom of national development, and thus, the development of every individual. It is about the technological, cultural, intellectual and educational solvency of a state – that is what it is.
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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with RT television, Sputnik agency and Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency
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🔹 We have initiated several statements (Russian-American statement and statement by the leaders of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council) to the effect that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and that it cannot ever be unleashed.
🔹 The requirements that are being enforced by Brussels <...> are becoming annoying and are preventing countries from living in accordance with their own traditions and religious beliefs.
🔹 It is important to step up our efforts. Africa has a population of 1.4 billion people, which is comparable to China and India. This is a great portion of the modern world and probably the most promising market.
🔹 We cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Vladimir Zelensky will control to have weapons that pose a direct threat to our territory or to the republics that have declared their independence.
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🔹 We have initiated several statements (Russian-American statement and statement by the leaders of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council) to the effect that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and that it cannot ever be unleashed.
🔹 The requirements that are being enforced by Brussels <...> are becoming annoying and are preventing countries from living in accordance with their own traditions and religious beliefs.
🔹 It is important to step up our efforts. Africa has a population of 1.4 billion people, which is comparable to China and India. This is a great portion of the modern world and probably the most promising market.
🔹 We cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Vladimir Zelensky will control to have weapons that pose a direct threat to our territory or to the republics that have declared their independence.
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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response
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Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response (July 21, 2022)
Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, in cooperation with the authorised federal executive authorities, continues to record numerous facts of criminal actions by Kiev regime against civilians, as well as the use of…
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⚠️ Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to record numerous facts of criminal actions by Kiev regime against civilians, as well as the use of medical infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations:
🔹in Kharkov, territorial defence units are stationed on the territory of Semyon Kuznetsov National University of Economics (Nauky Avenue) and an ammunition depot has been set up, while residents from nearby houses have not been deliberately evacuated;
🔹in Dnepropetrovsk, AFU have equipped a stronghold at school No 23 (Yavornytskyi Avenue) and deployed artillery and armoured vehicles in the immediate vicinity of the school;
🔹in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, AFU have equipped firing positions and sniper points on the lower and upper floors of multi-storey residential buildings (Mashinostroiteley Boulevard), with MLRS placed in yards, while the militants keep local residents in their flats, effectively using them as human shields.
▫️These and other similar facts of gross violations of international humanitarian law by the Kiev regime, despite repeated statements by the Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, have so far remained unnoticed by international organizations.
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🔹in Kharkov, territorial defence units are stationed on the territory of Semyon Kuznetsov National University of Economics (Nauky Avenue) and an ammunition depot has been set up, while residents from nearby houses have not been deliberately evacuated;
🔹in Dnepropetrovsk, AFU have equipped a stronghold at school No 23 (Yavornytskyi Avenue) and deployed artillery and armoured vehicles in the immediate vicinity of the school;
🔹in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, AFU have equipped firing positions and sniper points on the lower and upper floors of multi-storey residential buildings (Mashinostroiteley Boulevard), with MLRS placed in yards, while the militants keep local residents in their flats, effectively using them as human shields.
▫️These and other similar facts of gross violations of international humanitarian law by the Kiev regime, despite repeated statements by the Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, have so far remained unnoticed by international organizations.
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⚠️ According to reliable information in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, Kiev regime has prepared another sophisticated provocation to discredit the Russian Armed Forces.
▫️In order to implement this, AFU servicemen dressed in Russian uniforms with St. George's ribbons defiantly looted private homes and physically assaulted civilians, while AFU information and psychological operations specialists filmed "acts of looting" allegedly carried out by the Russian Armed Forces.
❗️We warn the international community in advance that Kiev authorities are planning to widely disseminate this latest fake story in the Ukrainian and Western media in the near future.
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▫️In order to implement this, AFU servicemen dressed in Russian uniforms with St. George's ribbons defiantly looted private homes and physically assaulted civilians, while AFU information and psychological operations specialists filmed "acts of looting" allegedly carried out by the Russian Armed Forces.
❗️We warn the international community in advance that Kiev authorities are planning to widely disseminate this latest fake story in the Ukrainian and Western media in the near future.
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✍️ Article by FM Sergey Lavrov for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, the Congolese Dispatch de Brazzaville, the Ugandan New Vision, as well as the Ethiopian Ethiopia Herald
"Russia and Africa: a future-bound partnership"
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Key points:
🇷🇺🌍 Russia has advocated Africa’s strengthened position in the multipolar architecture of a world order which should be based on the principles of the UN Charter and take the world’s cultural and civilizational diversity into account.
🤝 Russia-Africa ties are based on the time-tested bonds of friendship and cooperation. Our country has always supported Africans in their struggle for liberation from colonial oppression.
👉 We appreciate the considered African position as to the situation in Ukraine. Although unprecedented by its scale the pressure from beyond has not brought our friends to join the anti-Russian sanctions.
☝️ Relations between Russia and Africa are of an intrinsic value and do not depend on fluctuations in the international environment.
"Russia and Africa: a future-bound partnership"
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Key points:
🇷🇺🌍 Russia has advocated Africa’s strengthened position in the multipolar architecture of a world order which should be based on the principles of the UN Charter and take the world’s cultural and civilizational diversity into account.
🤝 Russia-Africa ties are based on the time-tested bonds of friendship and cooperation. Our country has always supported Africans in their struggle for liberation from colonial oppression.
👉 We appreciate the considered African position as to the situation in Ukraine. Although unprecedented by its scale the pressure from beyond has not brought our friends to join the anti-Russian sanctions.
☝️ Relations between Russia and Africa are of an intrinsic value and do not depend on fluctuations in the international environment.
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⚡ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement regarding agreements on transporting Ukrainian grain from Black Sea ports and on promoting Russian exports of food and fertilisers
💬 A ceremony for the simultaneous signing of two documents on maritime shipping of Ukrainian grain and the export of Russian agricultural products – Initiatives for the safe transportation of grain and food from the ports of Ukraine and Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat on assisting the promotion of Russian food and fertilisers to international markets, respectively – was held in Istanbul on July 22.
Initially, both documents were part of the UN Secretary-General’s “package” initiative, which President Putin supported. However, during the course of the talks, Kiev made several attempts to sabotage the bundled approach to the agreement proposed by Antonio Guterres. Interestingly, the negotiators from the UN Secretariat promoted a position that did not quite align with the Secretary-General’s original initiative.
Be that as it may, due to the Russian delegation’s efforts, it was possible to maintain the comprehensive and depoliticised nature of the “package” agreement, thereby ensuring the maximum possible effort to meet the developing countries that are food importers halfway.
Russia will honour its commitments in this regard. The fact that the United States and its allies are using food in the interests of their geopolitical adventures is unacceptable and inhumane.
The Memorandum of Understanding on Russian exports of agricultural products was signed by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The main goal is to ensure transparent and unhindered shipments of Russian food and fertilisers, including the raw materials for their production, to international markets. In particular, this issue is about removing the obstacles that the US and the EU have created in finance, insurance and logistics and exempting these particular products from the restrictive measures imposed on Russia. The memorandum will remain valid for three years.
Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine are the parties to the Ukrainian Grain Transport Initiative, with the United Nations acting in a support role. The goal is to promote safe shipping for grain, food and fertiliser exports, including ammonia, from the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. The document provides a procedure for the passage of ships, their inspection, monitoring the functioning of the humanitarian corridor, the modality of demining and preventing dangerous incidents by the Istanbul-based special Joint Coordination Centre with representatives from Russia, Ukraine and Türkiye and with support from the UN. The initiative is to run for 120 days with an option to renew for a similar period upon agreement of the parties.
☝️ It is gratifying to know that Washington and Brussels have stopped obstructing the efforts to achieve today’s agreements. The signing of the Russia-UN memorandum reiterated the absolutely artificial nature of the West’s attempts to shift the blame for the problems in supplying grain to international markets on Russia.
We hope the necessary efforts will be made to effectively implement these agreements soon. The UN assistance that is provided in good faith and the constructive approach of the international community, including the Western countries, will be instrumental in this. Given the significant share of Russian and Ukrainian agricultural products in international markets, ensuring uninterrupted shipping meets the pressing objectives of maintaining food security, especially for the developing and least developed countries. All of that should contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, including the eradication of hunger.
In closing, I would like to once again thank our Turkish partners, and personally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for their contribution to today’s results.
💬 A ceremony for the simultaneous signing of two documents on maritime shipping of Ukrainian grain and the export of Russian agricultural products – Initiatives for the safe transportation of grain and food from the ports of Ukraine and Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat on assisting the promotion of Russian food and fertilisers to international markets, respectively – was held in Istanbul on July 22.
Initially, both documents were part of the UN Secretary-General’s “package” initiative, which President Putin supported. However, during the course of the talks, Kiev made several attempts to sabotage the bundled approach to the agreement proposed by Antonio Guterres. Interestingly, the negotiators from the UN Secretariat promoted a position that did not quite align with the Secretary-General’s original initiative.
Be that as it may, due to the Russian delegation’s efforts, it was possible to maintain the comprehensive and depoliticised nature of the “package” agreement, thereby ensuring the maximum possible effort to meet the developing countries that are food importers halfway.
Russia will honour its commitments in this regard. The fact that the United States and its allies are using food in the interests of their geopolitical adventures is unacceptable and inhumane.
The Memorandum of Understanding on Russian exports of agricultural products was signed by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The main goal is to ensure transparent and unhindered shipments of Russian food and fertilisers, including the raw materials for their production, to international markets. In particular, this issue is about removing the obstacles that the US and the EU have created in finance, insurance and logistics and exempting these particular products from the restrictive measures imposed on Russia. The memorandum will remain valid for three years.
Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine are the parties to the Ukrainian Grain Transport Initiative, with the United Nations acting in a support role. The goal is to promote safe shipping for grain, food and fertiliser exports, including ammonia, from the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. The document provides a procedure for the passage of ships, their inspection, monitoring the functioning of the humanitarian corridor, the modality of demining and preventing dangerous incidents by the Istanbul-based special Joint Coordination Centre with representatives from Russia, Ukraine and Türkiye and with support from the UN. The initiative is to run for 120 days with an option to renew for a similar period upon agreement of the parties.
☝️ It is gratifying to know that Washington and Brussels have stopped obstructing the efforts to achieve today’s agreements. The signing of the Russia-UN memorandum reiterated the absolutely artificial nature of the West’s attempts to shift the blame for the problems in supplying grain to international markets on Russia.
We hope the necessary efforts will be made to effectively implement these agreements soon. The UN assistance that is provided in good faith and the constructive approach of the international community, including the Western countries, will be instrumental in this. Given the significant share of Russian and Ukrainian agricultural products in international markets, ensuring uninterrupted shipping meets the pressing objectives of maintaining food security, especially for the developing and least developed countries. All of that should contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, including the eradication of hunger.
In closing, I would like to once again thank our Turkish partners, and personally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for their contribution to today’s results.
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