⚡️ Заявление МИД России о Стамбульских договорённостях

🔉 Аудиокомментарий М.В.Захаровой

Почти год назад, 22 июля 2022 года, в Стамбуле были подписаны два взаимоувязанных соглашения – «черноморская инициатива» по вывозу украинского продовольствия и российского аммиака и Меморандум Россия-ООН по нормализации российского экспорта сельхозпродукции и удобрений.

Год спустя итоги работы по реализации указанных договорённостей выглядят неутешительно.

«Черноморская инициатива» была запущена буквально через неделю после подписания. Однако вразрез с заявленными гуманитарными целями вывоз украинского продовольствия был практически сразу переведён на сугубо коммерческую основу и до последнего момента был направлен на обслуживание узкокорыстных интересов Киева и его западных кураторов.

Что касается Меморандума Россия-ООН, то он на деле так и не заработал. В Вашингтоне, Брюсселе и Лондоне продолжили «штамповать» свои рестрикции. <...> В результате российские банковские платежи, страхование и транспортная логистика, поставки запчастей и зарубежные активы оказались полностью заблокированными.

Вынуждены констатировать, что из пяти предусмотренных Меморандумом Россия-ООН системных задач не выполнено ни одной.

❗️ В этих условиях откровенного саботажа в реализации Стамбульских соглашений продолжение не оправдавшей своего гуманитарного предназначения «черноморской инициативы» теряет смысл.

👉 В соответствии с пунктом Н договорённости российская сторона возражает против её дальнейшего продления <...>. Это означает:

• отзыв гарантий безопасности судоходства,
• сворачивание морского гуманитарного коридора,
• восстановление режима временно опасного района в северо-западной акватории Чёрного моря,
• расформирование СКЦ в Стамбуле.

Без участия России «черноморская инициатива» прекращает своё функционирование с 18 июля.

☝️ Только при получении конкретных результатов, а не обещаний и заверений, Россия будет готова рассмотреть восстановление «сделки».

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⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge

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In the early hours of July 17, the Crimean Bridge suffered yet another terrorist attack with the use of two Ukrainian water-surface drones. One of the deck sections was damaged.

Two civilians were killed: Alexey and Natalya Kulik, residents of the Novy Oskol municipality of the Belgorod Region, who were crossing the bridge in their car. Their 14-year-old daughter, Angelina, has become an orphan; she was admitted to a hospital in a moderately severe condition.

Kiev said that it was a joint operation by the Ukrainian Navy and Security Service. It confirms the involvement the country’s political leadership and security services in the terrorist attack. The reaction of some Ukrainian MPs to the Kulik family tragedy was even more cynical and unsettling. They sneered at people’s grief, which allows us to make conclusions about the moral and mental development of the Kiev politicians.

A criminal case was opened after the terrorist attack, and the necessary investigative actions are being taken. We are confident that those guilty will be found and will not escape justice. If the investigation finds that the surface drones that attacked the bridge are of Western origin, and that Western countries played a role in planning, sponsoring and conducting this operation, it will confirm their complicity in the Kiev regime’s terrorist activity.

❗️ The Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, which is a purely civilian facility. We hope that the international community and relevant multilateral agencies will put their foot down and give a proper assessment of yet another crime committed by the Ukrainian authorities.

The damage to the Crimean Bridge caused by the terrorist attack will be repaired shortly. All attempts to disrupt the transport link to the peninsula and tear Crimea from the rest of Russia are invariably futile.

❗️ Foreign Ministry statement on the #IstanbulAgreements

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Almost a year ago, on July 22, 2022, two interrelated agreements were signed in Istanbul, namely, the Black Sea Initiative on Ukrainian food and Russian ammonia exports and the Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the Secretariat of the United Nations on promoting Russian food products and fertilisers to the world markets.

A year later now, progress on implementing these agreements has been disappointing.

The Black Sea Initiative was launched just a week after it was signed. However, contrary to the purported humanitarian objectives, the Ukrainian food exports were almost immediately transacted on a purely commercial basis and, until the last moment, were used to serve Kiev and its Western curators’ self-serving interests.

The Russia-UN Memorandum has never really worked. The Americans and the British are keeping pace as they impose extraterritorial restrictions. As a result, Russian bank payments, insurance and transport logistics, as well as spare parts supplies and foreign assets have been completely blocked.

We are forced to state that none of the five systematic objectives stipulated in the Russia-UN Memorandum has been accomplished.

❗️ The blatant sabotage of the Istanbul agreements defeats the purpose of continuing the Black Sea Initiative which did not live up to its humanitarian rationale.

👉 In accordance with paragraph H of the agreement, Russia objects to an extension <...> This means:

• revoking safe navigation guarantees,
• curtailing the maritime humanitarian corridor,
• resuming the status of a temporarily dangerous area in the northwestern Black Sea,
• disbanding the JCC in Istanbul.

Without Russia, the Black Sea Initiative will cease to operate as of July 18.

☝️ Once concrete results rather than promises and assurances are in place, Russia will be ready to consider resuming the deal.

🇺🇸 The human rights situation in the United States is far from international standards for the protection of fundamental freedoms.

The US continues to flagrantly violate human rights within its borders as well as abroad by, for instance, imposing unlawful unilateral coercive measures (sanctions), the most glaring example of which is its economic blockade of Cuba for more than a decade.

It is also important to mention blatant violations of the international humanitarian law committed by US authorities in third nations. Under the "traditional" pretext of the need to combat terrorism, Washington has continued to indiscriminately use military force. As a result, the casualties among civilians have increased.

☝️ The US actively uses the human rights rhetoric to justify interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations and impose illegal sanctions against them. It has become common practice for the US State Department to release biased reports on the state of human rights in Russia and other undesirable countries, which are used to validate pressure on them.

Washington applies the principle of the extraterritoriality of the US justice and uses it to prey on citizens of sovereign States in flagrant violation of their national legislation.

The Americans are hunting not only Russians, but also citizens of other countries, who are often held without trial in CIA "secret prisons", where they are tortured and humiliated.

Immigrants and inmates, including minors, face constant repression of freedoms in the US. Journalists do not feel safe and become victims of attacks. Citizens' dissatisfaction with voting rights violations has only deepened the divisions in the American society. Alternative opinions have become increasingly censored in social media.

🤦 Despite all the above facts, the US continues to declare itself a global leader in human rights protection. However, Washington is in no hurry to expand its international legal commitments in this area.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question

❓: Dear Ambassador Antonov, in the context of the attack on the Crimean Bridge, how would you comment on the U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken’s statement that Kiev itself decides how to conduct military operations?

💬 Anatoly Antonov: This is not the first statement when the U.S. authorities justify the terrorist acts of Kiev against Russian citizens and facilities. The official's statements supplement a series of the tragic events, when the Administration pretended not to notice the assassinations of Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky, the brutal shelling of Donetsk residential areas and other Russian cities by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the same way, the United States distanced itself from the Crimean Bridge sabotage, perpetrated by the Ukrainian Nazis last year.

📌 This transport artery has not been used to deliver materiel for a long time. We are talking about the strike against the purely civilian target. The barbarous inhuman act took lives of two adults, a 14-year-old girl was left without parents. How are Americans going to look into the eyes of this little person?

❗️The fact that Washington is covering up Kiev radicals allows to confidently state that the United States is complicit in Kiev's crimes. Intoxicated by the U.S. support, Ukrainian terrorists may attempt new atrocities. However, there is no doubt that the regime that has put down roots in Ukraine will get what it deserves.