🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answers to media questions about remarks by Henry Kissinger and Senator Lindsey Graham

❓ Question: What is your comment on remarks by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has expressed support for the White House’s Ukraine policy? He said that “the Ukraine war is won, in terms of precluding a Russian attack on allied nations in Europe.”

💬 This looks like a case where the convinced “realist” negates the reality for the sole reason of not being able to allow it to exist. Speculations that the Russians were going to attack Eastern Europe, along with Sweden and Finland into the bargain, are ridiculous.

In the meantime, it is the alliance of Russia and China, with the two great powers standing back to back against the United States, that sets the main trend in modern geopolitics.

From the perspective of the “Kissinger doctrine,” this is an absolute nightmare. But this is not the question they ask themselves. They proceed from the assumption that Russia is nearly done with and they can focus on China, a delusion dangerous for America but objectively beneficial for Russia.

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❓Question: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has again come up with an outrageously Russophobic comment. Revelations of this sort, monstrous in form and meaning, are becoming standard in America. We would like to hear your assessment.

💬 We know this character well. He is grotesque and dangerous at one and the same time.

His pathetic attempts to exonerate himself by claiming that his remarks to the effect that “Russians are dying” and that the US military assistance to Ukraine was “the best money we’ve ever spent” were taken out of context and edited by his cronies in the Kiev regime do not change the core of the matter.

❌ This is the quintessential Western approach to Russia, which “must be destroyed.” Hitler and his stooges thought this way, and now the neo-Nazis in Ukraine are following in their wake under the patronage of Washington, London and Brussels.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answer to a media question during a joint news conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation of the Republic of Burundi Albert Shingiro following talks 🇷🇺🇧🇮

📍 Bujumbura, May 30, 2023

Key talking points:

💬 We positively assessed the recently intensified steps taken by Russian and Burundian representatives in a number of areas.

🔹 When reviewing the main international and regional issues, we found that our approaches are similar regarding the importance of democratising international relations and eliminating injustices which, at the initiative of the US-led collective West, are being ramped up in the international arena.

🇺🇳 Russia and Burundi consistently stand for respecting the principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnection, primarily, the principle of the sovereign equality of states, which is grossly violated by the United States and its allies on a daily basis. We appreciate our close coordination in the United Nations, which will continue.

🤝 We highly appreciate Burundi’s balanced position and good understanding of the reasons behind the ongoing events [in Ukraine]. They go deep into the West using the Kiev regime to create threats to Russia’s security right on our borders and to destroy the legitimate rights of the people who want to remain part of the Russian language and culture.

👆 This situation is a hallmark of the course that the West is pursuing in order to ensure its dominance on all continents and regions around the world. Conflicts like this cannot be considered separately from the general geopolitical situation and the designs that the West harbours with regard to almost any country that is, in one way or another, pursuing an independent policy.

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🇷🇺🇲🇿 Встреча Министра иностранных дел России С.В.Лаврова с Министром общественных работ, жилья и водных ресурсов К.Мешкитой и заместителем Министра иностранных дел Мозамбика М.Гонсалвешем

📍 Мапуту, 31 мая 2023 года

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🇷🇺🇲🇿 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources of Mozambique Carlos Alberto Fortes Mesquita together with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mozambique Manuel José Gonçalves hold a meeting.

📍 Maputo, May 31, 2023

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🇷🇺🇲🇿 Министр иностранных дел России С.В.#Лавров был принят Президентом Мозамбика Ф.Ньюси

📍 Мапуту, 31 мая 2023 года

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🇷🇺🇲🇿 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov was received by President of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi

📍 Maputo, May 31, 2023

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🎙 Выступление и ответы на вопросы СМИ С.В.Лаврова в ходе совместной пресс-конференции с Министром общественных работ, жилья и водных ресурсов Мозамбика К.Мешкиты по итогам переговоров

💬 Подтвердили солидарность России с мозамбикскими друзьями. Особо выделили нашу поддержку усилий, которые президент и его правительство предпринимают для стабилизации обстановки в стране, прежде всего с точки зрения устранения террористической угрозы.

📈 Зафиксировали неплохую динамику товарооборота, выросшего в 2022 г. более чем на 10%. Но абсолютные цифры не соответствуют потенциалу наших двух стран.

🪖 В развитие имеющегося хорошего опыта, будем готовы поставлять требуемую мозамбикским друзьям продукцию военного назначения, в том числе для обеспечения обороноспособности и повышения антитеррористического потенциала.

🎓 С учётом проявляемого в Мозамбике интереса к обучению в России, мы удвоили на завершающийся учебный год количество выделяемых стипендий, а на начинающийся в сентябре новый учебный год добавим ещё дополнительное количество.

🌾 Россия традиционно оказывает гуманитарное содействие Мозамбику, прежде всего поставками продовольствия через Всемирную продовольственную программу. Очередная партия гуманитарной помощи прибудет на днях в один из портов Мозамбика.

🌐 У нас широкое совпадение позиций по международной проблематике. Мы, как и мозамбикские друзья, исходим из безальтернативности международного права и принципов Устава ООН, которые должны применяться без двойных стандартов во всей своей полноте и взаимосвязях, включая принцип суверенного равенства государств.

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