🔴 #ПрямойЭфир: Пресс-конференция С.В.Лаврова по итогам деятельности российской дипломатии в 2023 году
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⚡️ From the press conference of S.V. Lavrov on the results of the activities of Russian diplomacy in 2023 ( January 18, 2023 )
🇷🇺 About Russian foreign policy
• On the foreign policy front, we have defined our main directions for the foreseeable future. In March, the President approved the Concept of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation in its new edition.
• We have clearly defined guidelines for developing relations with those who are ready to do this on an equal, mutually beneficial, mutually respectful basis , through frank dialogue and negotiations aimed at finding a balance of interests.
🤝 About bilateral and multilateral contacts
• Our relations with China are experiencing the best period in their centuries-old history.
• The relationship of a particularly privileged strategic partnership with India is being progressively promoted.
• If we are talking about our close environment, then, of course, these are the countries of the Middle East: Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar.
• We are interested in developing relations not only through bilateral channels, but also with regional structures that have been created by many of our partners: the GCC, Arab League, ASEAN, African Union, CELAC.
• We are taking our partnership with African countries to a truly strategic level .
• Both Africa and Latin America, like the Asian countries I have listed, are emerging independent centers of a multipolar world.
🇺🇳 Cooperation at the UN site
• We worked [in 2023] actively at the UN, where the Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter was created and has been successfully functioning for a couple of years.
• I would like to note, in my opinion, a very important event – the adoption once again at the UN General Assembly of a resolution on the inadmissibility of the glorification of Nazism . For the second time in a row, Germany, Italy and Japan voted against this document.
⚡️ From the press conference of S.V. Lavrov on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2023 ( January 18, 2024 )
💬 S.V. Lavrov: Afghanistan . The Americans were there for twenty years. Is this as much as they needed, or as much as was possible? What did they achieve there?
Or the same Iraq . Libya . Any countries in which the United States and its satellites staged adventures. Just run through it, so to speak, mentally – where did it get better? Where was the very democracy for which all this was started established?
And Ukraine , unfortunately, faces the same fate . Because, relying on the owner, not understanding that the owner thinks only about himself, and not at all about you, you cannot count on the interests of your people being somehow taken into account.
⚡️ From the press conference of S.V. Lavrov on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2023 ( January 18, 2024 )
🤝 About Russia’s closest allies
• We worked constructively in other formats. < ...> This applies to both the Union State of Russia and Belarus and the CSTO.
• Within the framework of the CSTO , we promoted the tasks of ensuring stability in all its dimensions – military, biological and, in general, protection from new challenges and threats.
• Important decisions were made in the EAEU aimed at deepening Eurasian integration, connecting these processes with projects such as China’s “One Belt, One Road”, interaction with the SCO , ASEAN and other structures and countries located on the Eurasian continent.
• Russia became the chairman of the CIS . We mean to continue useful projects that started in the previous year.
• We contribute to the objective, natural formation of the Greater Eurasian Partnership . The outlines of such a partnership are already visible.
• BRICS symbolizes the wealth of a multipolar world. If we consider that about 30 countries are interested in rapprochement with BRICS, then we see a very bright future for this association with a global composition of participants.
🇷🇺 On protecting the rights of Russian citizens
• They continued to give priority to the protection of the legitimate interests and rights of Russian citizens abroad. You know well how they are discriminated against in the countries of the collective West.
• Actively facilitated the evacuation of Russians , citizens of CIS countries and some other states from the Gaza Strip , and a few months before that from Sudan , where an internal conflict broke out.
• In terms of public diplomacy, I would highlight the creation in March last year of the International Russophile Movement , an informal association of people who live on different continents and feel spiritual and cultural closeness with Russia.
🌐 About the fight against neocolonialism
• We will continue to promote the ideals of truth and justice in international affairs, and we will do everything to make international relations more democratic .
• In this sense, our Ministry actively supports the initiative of “United Russia” to hold an inter-party Forum in Moscow for supporters of the fight against modern practices of neo-colonialism .
🪆 Cultural cooperation
• A number of major international events are being prepared in Russia. These include the World Youth Festival , Future Games , and BRICS Games. An international song competition “Intervision” is being prepared, many countries of the World Majority have shown interest in participating in it.
⚡️ From the press conference of S.V. Lavrov on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2023 ( January 18, 2024 )
💬 S.V. Lavrov: 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russian-Chinese relations, as our leaders have repeatedly emphasized, are experiencing the best period in their entire history .
In a number of declarations adopted at the highest level, it was written that these relations are stronger, more reliable and more advanced than the military alliance in its previous understanding of the Cold War era.
This reflects the real state of affairs – there is no sphere of human activity where our relations with the PRC would not experience rapid growth.
📈 The two hundred billion barrier [bilateral trade turnover], which was set as a goal, was significantly exceeded last year. And this trend will continue . Moreover, it will be facilitated by the fact that in conditions when the West is destroying all the foundations of the globalization it itself has promoted and is resorting to instruments of sanctions and other illegitimate measures, we are switching to mechanisms for the development of our trade and investment cooperation that will not be subject to any Western influence .
In particular, the use of national currencies for servicing bilateral trade turnover is already about 90% .
🤝 Not only the mechanisms of the summits of the President of Russia and the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China are in effect. There is a mechanism for annual meetings of heads of government, within the framework of which preparatory work is carried out in five intergovernmental commissions headed by deputy prime ministers. We do not have such an extensive mechanism of cooperation at such a high level with any other country .
This structure of Russian-Chinese strategic interaction and comprehensive partnership allows not only to coordinate ongoing mutually beneficial projects, but also to provide constant support for the work that is required to bring them to life. < …>
🌐 Always, in all cases, the interests of Russia and China as a result of negotiations come down to a common denominator, and this is a model for resolving any issues by any other participants in world communication .
⚡️ From S.V. Lavrov’s answers to media questions during a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2023 ( January 18, 2024 )
❗️ Ukraine
• Zelensky publicly announced that he will not organize any elections because there is a war going on. This resembles another re-enactment and reflects solely the desire of this man and his henchmen to hold on to power as much as possible.
• The West would like to have more flexibility. They, apparently, have already realized that the “blitzkrieg” , which was so advertised, with the ultimate goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, is all an illusion < ...>.
• [In the West] they realized their mistake < ...> and are looking for some external signals that would seem to allow them to support Ukraine, and on the other hand, to push Kiev to become more accommodating.
• We do not object to the agreements that other countries enter into with Ukraine. This does not change our goal at all.
🕌 Middle East
• The United States, together with the British and some of its other allies, simply trampled all conceivable norms of international law.
• No one authorized anyone to bomb Yemen, just as no one authorized NATO to bomb Libya in 2011.
• We know about semi-closed contacts [on the issue of Palestinian-Israeli settlement] with the participation of the United States, Israel, and individual Arab states, but somehow all these contacts do not imply direct dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis. It won’t have any success.
👉 Only direct dialogue that needs to be resumed. < ...> Here we must rely on collective work, which the United States has already lost the habit of. They are used to dictating.
• The main direction of efforts should be the creation of a Palestinian state in full accordance with the decision of the UN Security Council.
• Without the creation of a Palestinian state < ...> reliable security for Israel cannot be ensured. < ...> Russia is very interested in Israel and the Israelis living in safety.
• We are ready to play an active role in ensuring a full settlement that will guarantee the security of Israel in the context of the full implementation of the UN Security Council resolution on the Palestinian issue.
⚡️ From S.V. Lavrov’s answers to media questions during a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2023 ( January 18, 2024 )
💬 Anticipating your question, I took the manual that our friends from the EU countries gave us: “How to behave with Russian diplomats.” In every capital where there is an EU representative office and a Russian Embassy, this manual is widespread and must be strictly followed.
📖 “European diplomats should avoid bilateral contacts with representatives of Russia. Attending ANY events organized by the Russian side is EXCLUDED. These rules apply to festive receptions on November 4, February 10 (Diplomat Day), February 23, May 9 (!),” I would like to draw your attention to Your attention to the issue of the fight against Nazism – the Victory cannot be celebrated: “and June 12 (Russia Day)”.
“Russian diplomats cannot be invited to events and receptions organized by the governing structures and representations of the EU, as well as the ministries of foreign affairs of EU states. The presence at events of third countries in which the Russian side is expected to participate is not prohibited for European diplomats. Participation in the event is possible. organizers of the general photo shoot. At the same time, you should refrain from direct contacts with representatives of Russia. It is advisable to inform the receiving party in advance about the need to avoid the immediate proximity of the European and Russian delegations at general photos and official meetings.”
Here is the answer to your question about how we assess the prospects for negotiations.
🤷♂️ You can’t take a photo together !
But the fact that a lot of attention is paid to photographs is true. Now the main evidence of the success of the Davos meeting on Ukraine, as they are trying to present it, is that there were more people taking photographs than at the previous one.
☝️ These are all the criteria by which Western diplomacy evaluates its efforts.
⚡️ From S.V. Lavrov’s answers to media questions during a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2023 ( January 18, 2024 )
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian-American relations
• It is seriously impossible to talk about the prospects for resuming a dialogue with the United States on issues of strategic stability in isolation from the general state of affairs in the field of international security.
• In response to the measures we took to protect our interests, the United States unleashed an all-out hybrid war to achieve political-economic strangulation of Russia and inflict “strategic defeat on the battlefield.”
• Washington simply threw aside all the principles on which our countries once agreed to establish cooperation.
• We do not reject the possibility of a political and diplomatic settlement of existing differences, but we strictly and firmly condition such a possibility on the preliminary full refusal of the West from the malicious course of comprehensively undermining Russia’s security and our interests.
💬 About negotiation topics
• It will not be Ukraine that will decide when to stop and start talking seriously about realistic conditions for ending this conflict (and this involves abandoning Nazi ideology and rhetoric, abandoning racism towards everything Russian, and refusing to join NATO). < ...> We need to talk about this with the West .
• The West is not interested in any negotiations starting now.
🇦🇲🇦🇿 Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement
• The fact that Western councils are always aimed not at finding an agreement between the countries of the region based on a balance of their interests, but at promoting their geopolitical goals is well known to everyone.
• As soon as the EU, France, Germany, and the USA realized that the Russian-Armenian-Azerbaijani process was producing results < ...>, they immediately began to introduce themselves into these processes and played the role of a “spoiler”.
• There is every reason to say that the West does not want to allow the agreements that were concluded between Yerevan and Baku through the mediation of Russia to take place.
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