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🇷🇺🇮🇩 On July 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is attending the events held by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (#ASEAN), had a meeting with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia Retno Marsudi.
The Ministers highlighted:
👉 the practical aspects of bilateral cooperation
👉 the creation of security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region
👉 the priorities of cooperation at ASEAN-centric platforms and the further development of the #RussiaASEAN strategic partnership.
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The Ministers highlighted:
👉 the practical aspects of bilateral cooperation
👉 the creation of security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region
👉 the priorities of cooperation at ASEAN-centric platforms and the further development of the #RussiaASEAN strategic partnership.
#RussiaIndonesia
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🇷🇺🇮🇩🇨🇳 On July 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Wang Yi, Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, and Foreign Minister of Indonesia Retno Marsudi in Jakarta on the sidelines of #ASEAN ministerial events.
The Sides focused on issues of expanding trilateral cooperation to facilitate food and energy security in the context of current crisis trends in the global markets. The Sides reaffirmed their readiness to coordinate efforts in this field, including in the interests of boosting the economic resilience of the Global South, provided that all countries respect the principles of equality and mutual benefit in global economic ties.
They constructively exchanged opinions on a number of topical international and regional issues and discussed the objectives of strengthening the ASEAN-centric system of security and cooperation in the Asia Pacific region.
Sergey Lavrov and Wang Yi supported the efforts of Indonesia, which is currently chairing ASEAN, to promote these objectives at the upcoming ministerial meetings within the framework of the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta.
The Sides focused on issues of expanding trilateral cooperation to facilitate food and energy security in the context of current crisis trends in the global markets. The Sides reaffirmed their readiness to coordinate efforts in this field, including in the interests of boosting the economic resilience of the Global South, provided that all countries respect the principles of equality and mutual benefit in global economic ties.
They constructively exchanged opinions on a number of topical international and regional issues and discussed the objectives of strengthening the ASEAN-centric system of security and cooperation in the Asia Pacific region.
Sergey Lavrov and Wang Yi supported the efforts of Indonesia, which is currently chairing ASEAN, to promote these objectives at the upcoming ministerial meetings within the framework of the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta.
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🗓 On July 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who arrived in Indonesia to take part in the ministerial events of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (#ASEAN), met with ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn.
During the meeting, issues of strengthening cooperation with the ASEAN Secretariat in the interests of promoting the #RussiaASEAN strategic partnership were discussed.
The Parties focused on deepening practical cooperation in the high-tech and innovation areas. A discussion took place on the prospects for building up ASEAN contacts with the Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Kao Kim Hourn was invited to visit the Russian Federation.
During the meeting, issues of strengthening cooperation with the ASEAN Secretariat in the interests of promoting the #RussiaASEAN strategic partnership were discussed.
The Parties focused on deepening practical cooperation in the high-tech and innovation areas. A discussion took place on the prospects for building up ASEAN contacts with the Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Kao Kim Hourn was invited to visit the Russian Federation.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s video address to the Eurasian Forum of Young Diplomats, Diplomacy of the New Multipolar World, on the sidelines of the Manzherok Festival (July 12, 2023)
💬 I am glad to have this opportunity to address the participants of the 8th Eurasian Forum of Young Diplomats, which is taking place this year on the sidelines of the Manzherok Festival in hospitable Gorno-Altaisk.
The declared theme of your gathering – Diplomacy of the New Multipolar World – sounds more relevant than ever. We are all witnesses of truly historic changes taking place in the international arena. The undivided dominance of the "collective West" is coming to an end. At the same time, new centres of development are gaining momentum, primarily in Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
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It is especially important that the emerging multipolarity should not be based on military-political and economic confrontation between the key world players, but on an agreed balance of interests. On cooperation, not rivalry. In this regard, it is difficult to overestimate the role of classical diplomacy based on universally recognised international legal rules, primarily the principles of the UN Charter, respect for the cultural and civilisational diversity of the world, and the right of peoples to choose their own models of development.
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🤝 I assume that your meeting, which is based on the concept of "horizontal diplomacy", will also make a useful contribution to maintaining an atmosphere of trust and mutual understanding. I am convinced that the Forum will be held in a friendly and informal manner, allowing us to exchange professional experience and establish mutually useful contacts, and, of course, to get better acquainted with the unique cultural and natural heritage of the Altai Republic.
I wish you fruitful discussions and all the best.
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💬 I am glad to have this opportunity to address the participants of the 8th Eurasian Forum of Young Diplomats, which is taking place this year on the sidelines of the Manzherok Festival in hospitable Gorno-Altaisk.
The declared theme of your gathering – Diplomacy of the New Multipolar World – sounds more relevant than ever. We are all witnesses of truly historic changes taking place in the international arena. The undivided dominance of the "collective West" is coming to an end. At the same time, new centres of development are gaining momentum, primarily in Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
<...>
It is especially important that the emerging multipolarity should not be based on military-political and economic confrontation between the key world players, but on an agreed balance of interests. On cooperation, not rivalry. In this regard, it is difficult to overestimate the role of classical diplomacy based on universally recognised international legal rules, primarily the principles of the UN Charter, respect for the cultural and civilisational diversity of the world, and the right of peoples to choose their own models of development.
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🤝 I assume that your meeting, which is based on the concept of "horizontal diplomacy", will also make a useful contribution to maintaining an atmosphere of trust and mutual understanding. I am convinced that the Forum will be held in a friendly and informal manner, allowing us to exchange professional experience and establish mutually useful contacts, and, of course, to get better acquainted with the unique cultural and natural heritage of the Altai Republic.
I wish you fruitful discussions and all the best.
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⚡️ Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation "Human Rights Situation in Certain Countries" ⚡️
This report is a further effort by the Russian Foreign Ministry to bring public attention to human rights challenges facing today's international community.
👉 A full version of the report
The double-standards phenomena remains a major challenge as regards human rights assessments. It is evident that year after year the "collective West" has been increasingly resorting to this approach in order to fuel confrontation. These states have completely discredited everything they said about the universal nature of human rights. In fact, some members of the international community have blatantly instrumentalized the human rights agenda to serve the political interests of certain states and to interfere in internal affairs and infringe the sovereignty of independent states.
This report looks into the human rights situation in certain countries, including those that consider themselves advanced democracies which claim to set standards in human rights protection, as well as those that seek to join them.
We believe that the emerging new world and fairer system of international relations will make it possible to fully implement the principle of genuine respect for the sovereignty, as well as historical, cultural, religious, and national particularities of states across the world. Such system will be free from colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, racial discrimination and related intolerance.
☝️ This report includes negative examples from both the present and the recent past, which, for the most part, we are all well aware of, to illustrate behaviours the entire constructive-minded international community needs to stand up to.
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This report is a further effort by the Russian Foreign Ministry to bring public attention to human rights challenges facing today's international community.
👉 A full version of the report
The double-standards phenomena remains a major challenge as regards human rights assessments. It is evident that year after year the "collective West" has been increasingly resorting to this approach in order to fuel confrontation. These states have completely discredited everything they said about the universal nature of human rights. In fact, some members of the international community have blatantly instrumentalized the human rights agenda to serve the political interests of certain states and to interfere in internal affairs and infringe the sovereignty of independent states.
This report looks into the human rights situation in certain countries, including those that consider themselves advanced democracies which claim to set standards in human rights protection, as well as those that seek to join them.
We believe that the emerging new world and fairer system of international relations will make it possible to fully implement the principle of genuine respect for the sovereignty, as well as historical, cultural, religious, and national particularities of states across the world. Such system will be free from colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, racial discrimination and related intolerance.
☝️ This report includes negative examples from both the present and the recent past, which, for the most part, we are all well aware of, to illustrate behaviours the entire constructive-minded international community needs to stand up to.
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❌ 90 years later... On June 22, 2023, Zelensky signed into law a ban on the commercial import of books from Russia and Belarus.
☝️ The Ukrainian apple doesn’t fall far from the Nazi tree.
🔹Moreover, the said date was not chosen by a coincidence. On June 22, 1941 Germany invaded the USSR, thus the deadliest chapter in the world history began. It’s an open question where this anti-Russian Crusade will eventually lead.
P.S. The Ukrainian law 2309-ІХ, banning books from Russia and Belarus, contradicts basic human rights standards, including:
❌The European Convention on Human Rights;
❌International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;
❌ The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
❌ Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Комментарий Посольства России в США
☝️Обратили внимание на сообщение пентагона о том, что кассетные боеприпасы доставлены на Украину. Отфиксировали также заявления представителей администрации о неких «обещаниях» киевского режима использовать эти вооружения «аккуратно» и в «подходящих районах».
👉 Такие высказывания американских чиновников - неуклюжая попытка оправдать собственные провокационные действия. Все, кто следит за развитием конфликта, знают, что Киев использует помощь из США для поражения гражданских объектов в надежде запугать нас и «уничтожить как можно больше русских». Удары наносятся по спальным кварталам, где нет военных объектов.
📌 Невозможно даже предположить, сколько будет жертв среди мирного населения, включая украинцев, когда киевские преступники начнут применять американские кассетные боеприпасы. Нет никаких сомнений в том, что ВСУ не станут соблюдать какие-либо «ограничения» при выборе целей, поскольку находятся в отчаянии из-за колоссальных потерь и неспособности достичь успехов на фронте.
☝️Обратили внимание на сообщение пентагона о том, что кассетные боеприпасы доставлены на Украину. Отфиксировали также заявления представителей администрации о неких «обещаниях» киевского режима использовать эти вооружения «аккуратно» и в «подходящих районах».
👉 Такие высказывания американских чиновников - неуклюжая попытка оправдать собственные провокационные действия. Все, кто следит за развитием конфликта, знают, что Киев использует помощь из США для поражения гражданских объектов в надежде запугать нас и «уничтожить как можно больше русских». Удары наносятся по спальным кварталам, где нет военных объектов.
📌 Невозможно даже предположить, сколько будет жертв среди мирного населения, включая украинцев, когда киевские преступники начнут применять американские кассетные боеприпасы. Нет никаких сомнений в том, что ВСУ не станут соблюдать какие-либо «ограничения» при выборе целей, поскольку находятся в отчаянии из-за колоссальных потерь и неспособности достичь успехов на фронте.
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
☝️We have noted a Pentagon's announcement that cluster munitions have been delivered to Ukraine. We have also taken note of statements by the Administration’s officials about some "promises", given by the Kiev regime to use these weapons with "the highest incentive to limits" and in "appropriate places".
👉 Such statements by U.S. officials are a clumsy attempt to justify their own provocative actions. Anyone who follows the conflict knows that Kiev has been using U.S. security assistance to hit civilian targets in the hope of intimidating us and "killing as many Russians as possible". The strikes have been carried out against residential areas where there are no military facilities whatsoever.
📌 It is hard to imagine how many civilian casualties there will be, including Ukrainians, when the Kiev criminals start using U.S. cluster munitions. There is no doubt that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not abide by any "restrictions" in selecting their targets since they are desperate due to the colossal losses as well as inability to achieve successes on the front.
☝️We have noted a Pentagon's announcement that cluster munitions have been delivered to Ukraine. We have also taken note of statements by the Administration’s officials about some "promises", given by the Kiev regime to use these weapons with "the highest incentive to limits" and in "appropriate places".
👉 Such statements by U.S. officials are a clumsy attempt to justify their own provocative actions. Anyone who follows the conflict knows that Kiev has been using U.S. security assistance to hit civilian targets in the hope of intimidating us and "killing as many Russians as possible". The strikes have been carried out against residential areas where there are no military facilities whatsoever.
📌 It is hard to imagine how many civilian casualties there will be, including Ukrainians, when the Kiev criminals start using U.S. cluster munitions. There is no doubt that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not abide by any "restrictions" in selecting their targets since they are desperate due to the colossal losses as well as inability to achieve successes on the front.
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🎙 Из ответов Президента России В.В.Путина на вопросы представителей СМИ по окончании пленарного заседания Форума будущих технологий (Москва, 13 июля 2023)
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• Членство Украины в НАТО создаёт угрозы для безопасности России. Уверен, что это не повысит безопасность самой Украины, да и в целом сделает мир гораздо более уязвимым и приведёт к дополнительному напряжению на международной арене.
• Что касается поставок вооружений, различного оружия, то мы видим, сколько надежд возлагалось на поставку и ракет достаточно дальнего радиуса действия. Ну что? Да, они ущерб наносят, но ничего критического в зоне боевых действий не происходит с использованием этих ракет.
• Достигая безопасности одной страны, не должны создаваться угрозы для другой страны. Поэтому мы исходим из понимания того, что этот принцип, который многократно был продекларирован в различных международных документах, всё-таки будет учитываться.
• Рост цен на продовольствие, на продукты питания, на то, что производится сельским хозяйством в целом в мире, на удобрения связан не со специальной военной операцией. Он связан с ошибками ведущих западных экономик в сфере финансов и в сфере инвестиций, в том числе в энергетику.
• Так называемая зерновая сделка обосновывалась желанием поддержать беднейшие страны. Что касается условий, на которых мы согласились обеспечить безопасность вывоза украинского зерна, то – да, там были пункты этой договорённости с ООН, согласно которым нужно было учитывать и российские интересы. Ни одного пункта, связанного с тем, что есть интересы Российской Федерации, не исполнено.
Мы можем приостановить наше участие в этой сделке, и, если все в очередной раз говорят, что все данные нам обещания будут исполнены, пусть исполнят это обещание – и мы сразу же присоединимся к этой сделке. Снова.
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• Членство Украины в НАТО создаёт угрозы для безопасности России. Уверен, что это не повысит безопасность самой Украины, да и в целом сделает мир гораздо более уязвимым и приведёт к дополнительному напряжению на международной арене.
• Что касается поставок вооружений, различного оружия, то мы видим, сколько надежд возлагалось на поставку и ракет достаточно дальнего радиуса действия. Ну что? Да, они ущерб наносят, но ничего критического в зоне боевых действий не происходит с использованием этих ракет.
• Достигая безопасности одной страны, не должны создаваться угрозы для другой страны. Поэтому мы исходим из понимания того, что этот принцип, который многократно был продекларирован в различных международных документах, всё-таки будет учитываться.
• Рост цен на продовольствие, на продукты питания, на то, что производится сельским хозяйством в целом в мире, на удобрения связан не со специальной военной операцией. Он связан с ошибками ведущих западных экономик в сфере финансов и в сфере инвестиций, в том числе в энергетику.
• Так называемая зерновая сделка обосновывалась желанием поддержать беднейшие страны. Что касается условий, на которых мы согласились обеспечить безопасность вывоза украинского зерна, то – да, там были пункты этой договорённости с ООН, согласно которым нужно было учитывать и российские интересы. Ни одного пункта, связанного с тем, что есть интересы Российской Федерации, не исполнено.
Мы можем приостановить наше участие в этой сделке, и, если все в очередной раз говорят, что все данные нам обещания будут исполнены, пусть исполнят это обещание – и мы сразу же присоединимся к этой сделке. Снова.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at the #RussiaASEAN Ministerial Conference
📍 Jakarta, July 13, 2023
💬 I would like to thank Indonesia as the ASEAN Chair for the wonderful organisation of today’s meeting. I would like to convey special thanks to Cambodia and you, Mr. Co-Chairman, for coordinating the Russia-ASEAN dialogue partnership for the past two years. Next year, these functions will be delegated to our Brunei colleagues, and we will continue to deepen our constructive collaboration with them.
The Russian Federation and ASEAN established relations over 30 years ago. Since 2005, the Russia-ASEAN dialogue has had the official status of a well-developed and comprehensive dialogue. This year, we are marking the fifth anniversary of our strategic partnership. I congratulate everyone present here on this significant date. <...>
Efforts to strengthen and expand diverse cooperation in accordance with guidelines set by leaders at the 2021 summit are our common priority. We have already accomplished a lot. For example, contacts between foreign ministries and national security councils are developing intensively.
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Russia and ASEAN countries are united by a firm commitment to forging a more equitable and democratic multipolar international order based on the principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interdependence.
We consistently advocate efforts to strengthen an ASEAN-centric system that should remain the foundation of the Asia-Pacific region’s security and sustainable development. We know that not everyone likes this; however, we are guided by objective tasks of maintaining peace and stability in this vast region, rather than by anyone’s preferences.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome a representative of East Timor and to congratulate him on the approval in May 2023 of a roadmap for joining the Association. We hope that this will facilitate the country’s more complete integration into the region’s political and economic life.
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📍 Jakarta, July 13, 2023
💬 I would like to thank Indonesia as the ASEAN Chair for the wonderful organisation of today’s meeting. I would like to convey special thanks to Cambodia and you, Mr. Co-Chairman, for coordinating the Russia-ASEAN dialogue partnership for the past two years. Next year, these functions will be delegated to our Brunei colleagues, and we will continue to deepen our constructive collaboration with them.
The Russian Federation and ASEAN established relations over 30 years ago. Since 2005, the Russia-ASEAN dialogue has had the official status of a well-developed and comprehensive dialogue. This year, we are marking the fifth anniversary of our strategic partnership. I congratulate everyone present here on this significant date. <...>
Efforts to strengthen and expand diverse cooperation in accordance with guidelines set by leaders at the 2021 summit are our common priority. We have already accomplished a lot. For example, contacts between foreign ministries and national security councils are developing intensively.
<...>
Russia and ASEAN countries are united by a firm commitment to forging a more equitable and democratic multipolar international order based on the principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interdependence.
We consistently advocate efforts to strengthen an ASEAN-centric system that should remain the foundation of the Asia-Pacific region’s security and sustainable development. We know that not everyone likes this; however, we are guided by objective tasks of maintaining peace and stability in this vast region, rather than by anyone’s preferences.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome a representative of East Timor and to congratulate him on the approval in May 2023 of a roadmap for joining the Association. We hope that this will facilitate the country’s more complete integration into the region’s political and economic life.
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🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov was received by President of Indonesia Joko Widodo
📍 Jakarta, July 14
#RussiaIndonesia
📍 Jakarta, July 14
#RussiaIndonesia
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🤝 Министр иностранных дел России С.В.Лавров принимает участие в Совещании министров иностранных дел Восточноазиатского саммита
📍 Джакарта, 14 июля
#РоссияВАС
📍 Джакарта, 14 июля
#РоссияВАС
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🤝 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the East Asia Summit Ministerial Meeting
📍 Jakarta, July 14
#RussiaEAS
📍 Jakarta, July 14
#RussiaEAS
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the Russia-ASEAN Conference
📍 Jakarta, July 13, 2023
#RussiaASEAN meeting
💬 We have held the annual Ministerial Meeting between Russia and ASEAN Member Countries once again. The meeting involved the Secretary-General of this organisation. We prioritised such aspects as high technologies, digitalisation and smart cities. We had a separate discussion of our collaboration on countering new challenges and threats. Cooperation between #ASEAN and the Eurasian Economic Union (#EAEU) is another issue.
We are expecting ASEAN representatives at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in September 2023. We have drafted specific plans aiming to expand practical cooperation in various fields and in the interests of all participants.
On #NATO policy in the Asia-Pacific region
💬 It is true that the ASEAN approaches are now going through a serious test because of the desire of the US and its allies to replace the ASEAN-centric security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, which took shape over decades and suited everyone until recently, with their “Indo-Pacific strategies” and NATO expansion in this region.
Japan and South Korea already told that they are willing to deploy American nuclear weapons on their territory or to acquire their own. This is a seriously dangerous trend.
#JCPOA
💬 I am not very optimistic about the prospects of resuming the JCPOA. Another point is that, along with this stalled and withered process, the Iranians and the Americans are engaged in unofficial and direct contact below the radar on normalising their relations by unblocking Iran’s seized foreign reserves in exchange for deciding the fate of certain US citizens who were charged with breaking the law in Iran.
We will only welcome any improvement in these relations. Once again, this has little to do with the JCPOA.
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📍 Jakarta, July 13, 2023
#RussiaASEAN meeting
💬 We have held the annual Ministerial Meeting between Russia and ASEAN Member Countries once again. The meeting involved the Secretary-General of this organisation. We prioritised such aspects as high technologies, digitalisation and smart cities. We had a separate discussion of our collaboration on countering new challenges and threats. Cooperation between #ASEAN and the Eurasian Economic Union (#EAEU) is another issue.
We are expecting ASEAN representatives at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in September 2023. We have drafted specific plans aiming to expand practical cooperation in various fields and in the interests of all participants.
On #NATO policy in the Asia-Pacific region
💬 It is true that the ASEAN approaches are now going through a serious test because of the desire of the US and its allies to replace the ASEAN-centric security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, which took shape over decades and suited everyone until recently, with their “Indo-Pacific strategies” and NATO expansion in this region.
Japan and South Korea already told that they are willing to deploy American nuclear weapons on their territory or to acquire their own. This is a seriously dangerous trend.
#JCPOA
💬 I am not very optimistic about the prospects of resuming the JCPOA. Another point is that, along with this stalled and withered process, the Iranians and the Americans are engaged in unofficial and direct contact below the radar on normalising their relations by unblocking Iran’s seized foreign reserves in exchange for deciding the fate of certain US citizens who were charged with breaking the law in Iran.
We will only welcome any improvement in these relations. Once again, this has little to do with the JCPOA.
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🇷🇺🇧🇳🇰🇭🇮🇩🇱🇦🇲🇾🇲🇲🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇭🇻🇳 С.В.Лавров принимает участие в Совещании министров иностранных дел Регионального форума АСЕАН по безопасности
📍 Джакарта, 14 июля
#РоссияАРФ
📍 Джакарта, 14 июля
#РоссияАРФ