بصدد ضرورة توحيد الجهود الدولية من أجل تسوية النزاع الفلسطيني ـ الإسرائيلي

تعرب موسكو عن بالغ قلقها في ضوء تفاقم الوضع من جديد في منطقة النزاع الفلسطيني ـ الإسرائيلي. ووفقا للمعلومات الواردة، إن عملية الجيش الإسرائيلي التي بدأت في 3 يوليو في مدينة جنين في الضفة الغربية لنهر الأردن، أسفرت عن قتل أكثر من عشرة فلسطينيين وأصابه أكثر من مئة.

إن الأحداث التي تجري في الأراضي الفلسطينية تشهد مرة أخرى على أن الأطراف المتحاربة غير قادرة على الخروج من حلقة العنف المفرغة بنفسها، فضلا على استئناف الحِوار البناء، الذي توقف منذ ما يقرب من عشر سنوات نتيجة لإخفاق الدور الاحتكاري لواشنطن في تنظيم مفاوضات سياسية مباشرة بين الإسرائيليين والفلسطينيين بشأن مجموعة قضايا الوضع النهائي. إن موجة العنف الحالي لا تخلق فحسب عقبات إضافية أمام فتح "الأفق" السياسي للتسوية الفلسطينية ـ الإسرائيلية، بل تهدد أيضا بخطر شديد على الاستقرار الإقليمي كلياً.

وترك تعثر الجهود الدبلوماسية الخارجية في مجال التسوية الشرق أوسطية، آثاره على تدهور الوضع. واكتسبت الاتجاهات السلبية زخما، نتيجة إلى حد بعيد لقرار الولايات المتحدة والاتحاد الأوروبي التعسفي غير المبرر الرامي لعرقلة عمل "رباعي" الوسطاء الدوليين للشرق الأوسط المكون من روسيا والولايات المتحدة والاتحاد الأوروبي ومنظمة الأمم المتحدة.

على هذه الخلفية، أطلقت وزارة الخارجية الروسية مبادرة بشأن موضوعة التسوية الشرق أوسطية، تهدف إلى توحيد مواقف اللاعبين الإقليميين الرئيسيين. ونعيد الأذهان إلى أن اقتراحنا يقضي بعقد اجتماع تشاوري بين روسيا ورئاسة جامعة الدول العربية ومجموعة دول الشرق الأوسط التي تشارك بنشاط في ملف التسوية في الشرق الأوسط بهدف تنسيق المقاربات لتشكيل الظروف اللازمة لتنظيم عملية سلام مستدامة فلسطينية-إسرائيلية.

ونرى أن تنسيق أعمال اللاعبين الرئيسيين أمر لا بديل عنه وقد طال انتظاره. وتشير الممارسة التاريخية إلى أنه يمكن معالجة المشاكل المعقدة في الشرق الأوسط بشكل فعال عن طريق تنسيق مواقف دول المنطقة، التي تستند إلى مصالحها الوطنية المشروعة. إن مواصلة المجتمع الدولي بالتأخير محفوف بتدهور للوضع "على الأرض" لا رجعة فيه وتقويض الإطار القانوني للتسوية في الشرق الأوسط التي وافق عليه المجتمع الدولي: على أساس قرارات مجلس الأمن الدولي، ومبادئ مدريد، ومبادرة السلام العربية، وكذلك مبدأ "الدولتين" – فلسطين وإسرائيل، اللتان تتعايشان في سلام وأمن. إن الموقف الروسي من هذه القضية ثابت وبلا تغيير: إقامة دولة فلسطينية مستقلة داخل حدود عام 1967، وعاصمتها القدس الشرقية، والمقدمات الموضوعية لذلك هو أن تتوحد بلا تأجيل، كافة القوى السياسية الفلسطينية على أساس برنامج منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية.

🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin's speech at the meeting of the #ShanghaiCooperationOrganisation Heads of State Council (July 4, 2023)

🔗 Read in full: https://vk.cc/cpemko

🇮🇳 The meeting is taking place under the chairmanship of Prime Minister of #India Narendra Modi.

🇰🇿🇰🇬🇨🇳🇵🇰🇹🇯🇺🇿 President of the People's Republic of #China Xi Jinping, President of #Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of #Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Prime Minister of #Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, President of #Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and President of #Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev are also taking part in the meeting.

🇧🇾🇮🇷🇲🇳🇹🇲 President of #Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of #Iran Ebrahim Raisi and President of #Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh were invited to take part in the meeting as heads of the #SCO observer states. President of #Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov was invited as a guest of the presiding party.

Heads of the SCO permanent bodies and heads of delegations from certain invited international organisations and associations are also attending the summit.

🔗 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71578

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the Ceremonial Start of the #SilkWay International Rally (Kazan, July 6, 2023)

💬 I cannot thank you enough for this opportunity to attend this fantastic event. We have gathered here today to see off these courageous people – men and women – who will participate in this race along the oldest road that tied together our entire vast continent, Eurasia, linking regions, people and destinies, traditions, cultures, languages, and religions.

The fact that today Kazan is hosting the thirteenth edition of this rally shows how important it is for our neighbours and everyone who lives on this vast continent, to feel involved in a common cause and destiny. It is especially gratifying to be connected through sports, which must be outside politics, no matter how hard major sports officials try to politicise it, and which brings people together through a natural feeling of fair competition.

I wish every participant the best of luck.Winning is the only way!

🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a question from International Life magazine about Quran burnings in Europe

❓ Question: A provocative Quran-burning incident took place recently in Stockholm. This is not the first time this has happened in Europe. What can you say about it?

💬 Maria Zakharova: I have to state that cases of Quran burning intended specifically to offend the religious feelings of Muslims have been literally stamped out in European countries.

Most recently, a dirty provocation of this kind took place on June 28, the sacred Eid al-Adha holiday, in central Stockholm, where Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi immigrant, burned the sacred book in front of a mosque in a move, according to him, to “defend the freedom of speech” and to “support democracy.” Notably, this outrageous action took place with police consent and protection.

Such actions blatantly violate fundamental human rights and are a challenge to the Muslim world and all people who care.

We are surprised to see Stockholm stand by and watch, and demonstrate its unwillingness to comply with international obligations in the sphere of protecting religious rights and freedoms.

❗️ We strongly condemn this act of vandalism, which is a manifestation of blasphemous barbarism and xenophobia that has no justification. We urge the Swedish authorities to put an end to emboldening the growing interreligious enmity and hatred.

🇷🇺🇹🇷 9 июля по инициативе турецкой стороны состоялся телефонный разговор С.В.Лаврова с Министром иностранных дел Турецкой Республики Х.Фиданом.

Стороны обменялись мнениями по региональной повестке дня с упором на последние события вокруг Украины, включая ситуацию с возвращением «главарей Азова» из Стамбула в Киев.

Внимание Анкары было обращено на деструктивность курса на продолжение поставок военной техники киевскому режиму. Соответствующие шаги, как было подчёркнуто, могут привести только к негативным последствиям.

Министры подтвердили необходимость сохранять и укреплять доверительный характер отношений между Москвой и Анкарой на основе принципиальных договоренностей президентов В.В.Путина и Р.Т.Эрдогана.

Затрагивались также перспективы дальнейшего взаимодействия по вопросам, касающимся обеспечения глобальной продовольственной безопасности в условиях неспособности западных государств предпринять шаги, необходимые для реализации известной «пакетной инициативы» Генерального секретаря ООН.

Обсуждены отдельные аспекты российско-турецкого двустороннего сотрудничества, включая график предстоящих контактов.

🇷🇺🇧🇭 The Bahrain delegation helmed by Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani receives a warm welcome at the Russian Foreign Ministry. Deputy FM Mikhail Bogdanov greeted the guests 🤝

Meeting with FM Sergey Lavrov to begin shortly.

🇷🇺🇧🇭 Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani meet in Moscow at the Russian MFA.

🤝 #RussiaBahrain

🇷🇺🇧🇭 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Kingdom of Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani (Moscow, July 10, 2023)

💬 Thank you for accepting our invitation and agreeing to hold the sixth round of the Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council strategic dialogue in Moscow, due to start in the next few hours.
I would also like to note that this is a good opportunity to discuss bilateral relations between our states; we value these relations very much.

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa maintain high-level relations based on mutual trust. I would like to note our cooperation at meetings of the Intergovernmental Russia-Bahrain Commission on Trade, Economic, Science and Technical Cooperation.

Read in full: https://is.gd/AhLkKn

#RussiaBahrein

🇷🇺🇰🇼 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with Foreign Minister of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Moscow, July 10, 2023)

💬 We appreciate your visit as part of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This is a convenient format, especially in these troubled times. I believe that it is important that we discuss a large number of issues because due to the activity of some of our colleagues, many priority issues have gone by the wayside.

We respect Kuwait’s weighed and responsible approach towards the attempts to present the situation as a global catastrophe in comparison to which no other issue matters. I believe that this is unfair to the decades-old issues of the Middle East and North Africa (the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, as well as the issues of Iraq, Libya and Syria).

🔗 Read in full: https://is.gd/d60k24

#RussiaKuwait

فاز طلاب المدارس الروسية بثلاث ميداليات ذهبية وميدالية فضية في الأولمبياد الدولي للبيولوجيا في مدينة العين (الإمارات العربية المتحدة)

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🇷🇺🇰🇼 On July 10, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah had a meeting in Moscow on the sidelines of the sixth Ministerial Meeting of the Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council strategic dialogue.

During the conversation, the Foreign Ministers discussed high-priority issues of further developing the traditionally friendly Russia-Kuwait relations and reaffirmed the commitment of Moscow and Kuwait City to implementing agreements reached at the top level, including efforts to strengthen the mutually beneficial trade, economic and investment partnership.

While reviewing Middle East issues, they prioritised the need to resolve persisting conflicts and crisis situations in this strategically important region, including the Palestinian-Israeli confrontation, by political methods, with due consideration for a balance of legitimate interests of all the parties involved. They also emphasised the need to unfailingly honour international law and to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Middle East and Persian Gulf states.

#RussiaKuwait

🔴 #LIVE: Opening remarks by FM Sergey Lavrov during talks with Foreign Minister of Oman Sayyid Badr Albusaidi 🇷🇺🇴🇲

📍 Moscow, July 11, 2023

🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video

🔗 https://www.ruptly.tv/event_route?link_id=c79d67e7-0d37-48ee-8ad8-7fde73d35af7&provider_id=15

🗓 On July 10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (#GCC) Jasem Al-Budaiwi in Moscow on the sidelines of the sixth round of the Russia-GCC strategic dialogue.

The two officials expressed satisfaction with the practice of organising ministerial meetings for a strategic dialogue that allows the two parties to thoroughly discuss a broad spectrum of issues relating to the coordination of approaches that Russia and the GCC member countries take in the interest of resolving conflict situations in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region and ensuring stability and sustainable development in this part of the world.

A lot of attention was given to the prospects for developing trade, and economic and investor interaction between Russia and the monarchies on the Arabian Peninsula. Mutual interest was expressed in stepping up industrial cooperation and carrying out joint projects in both Russia and the GCC member countries.

🇷🇺🇸🇦 On July 10, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud had a meeting on the sidelines of the sixth ministerial meeting of the Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council strategic dialogue in Moscow.

During the meeting, priority topics related to the progressive development of traditionally friendly bilateral relations were discussed, with a focus on the practical implementation of the agreements reached earlier at the highest level, including the further promotion of mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation, as well as expansion of cultural ties. Emphasis was placed on continuing constructive cooperation in the OPEC+ format.

The Foreign Ministers compared approaches on current international and Middle East agenda items and stated that the principled approaches of Moscow and Riyadh were the same or similar, and are in favour of settling current Middle East crises through political and diplomatic means with consideration for the lawful interests of all involved parties, on a generally accepted international legal basis and in accordance with the provisions of the UN Charter.

🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permament Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:

🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing regarding the acts of sabotage at the Nord Stream pipeline (11 July 2023)

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💬 At our initiative, the Security Council has remained seized on this matter for several months by now. We note that regardless of the format of discussion and positions of states on the draft resolution that we proposed, almost all Council members unwaveringly condemned this crime and underscored the importance of finding out the truth and identifying the perpetrators.

We expect the authorities of Germany 🇩🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰 and Sweden 🇸🇪 to take concrete steps to conduct an objective and transparent investigation into all the circumstances of what happened with a mandatory involvement of Russian investigative authorities and other interested parties.

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🔹 We have also noted that the authorities of Germany, Denmark and Sweden claim in their joint letter that access to the crime scene is allegedly open. In that case, we will proceed from the assumption that our investigative bodies and experts can examine it independently at any time as part of the criminal proceedings initiated by the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation to look into a case of international terrorism.

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🇷🇺 The Russian Federation will raise the issue of sabotage of Nord Streams in the Security Council until the perpetrators are identified and held accountable.

We will use all means at our disposal to achieve that goal.

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☝️ The Council must make it clear that crimes against transboundary pipeline infrastructure that pose a direct threat to international peace and security will not go unpunished. Only in this way can we prevent the recurrence of such crimes, to which any state can fall victim.