🇷🇺🇺🇬 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Uganda on a working visit.

At the airport of Entebbe, he was met by his counterpart, Ugandan Foreign Minister Jeje Odongo.

#RussiaAfrica #RussiaUganda

🎙 Statement by Chargé d'Affaires of the Russian Federation Dmitry Polyanskiy at the third substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and telecommunication technologies (ICTs)

Key points:
🔹 The visas instrument is used by the US in the most impertinent way with a view to undermine the efforts of international community on strengthening security in the use of ICTs.

🔹 A direct interaction of States is crucial. It will make possible tо enhance mutual trust, cope with the current situation in international information space. Today the use of ICTs is comparable to brooding jungles where the strongest stays alive and imposes his own law.

🔹 The companies of developed states intend to introduce norms and practices of the West as a basis for international law in information security which will fit the exploitation of information resources of the users of ICTs.

🔹 Only States can be responsible for international peace and security. They are the ones who influence stability in information space.

🔹 It is necessary to take practical steps to close a gap among States’ approaches and negotiate elements of a future international legal regime of regulation of information space.

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⚡️Enjoy the 2⃣5⃣1⃣th #RussianEmbassyWeekly⚡️
Main topics:
🔹Vladimir Putin and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi held talks in Tehran
🔹Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan
🔹Meeting of the guarantor states of the Astana process to facilitate the Syrian settlement
🔹Mikhail Mishustin talked by telephone with:
▪PM of the Kyrgyz Republic Akylbek Japarov
▪PM of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan
🔹Article by Sergey Lavrov for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, the Congolese Dispatch de Brazzaville, the Ugandan New Vision, as well as the Ethiopian Ethiopia Herald
🔹Sergey Lavrov’s statements and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto
🔹Sergey Lavrov’s interview with RT television
🔹Sergey Lavrov’s article «Staged incidents as the Western approach to doing politics», published in Izvestia newspaper
🔹Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu met with UN General Secretary A.Guterres to sign Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and UN on cooperation in delivering Russian agricultural products
🔹Comments of the Russian Embassy in the United States
🔹Andrey Gromyko, a great Soviet-era diplomat, was born on July 18, 1909

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Комментарий Посольства Российской Федерации в США в ответ на заявление госдепартамента об усиливающейся изоляции России
🔹 Обратили внимание на утверждение пресс-службы госдепартамента, что наша страна якобы становится «изгоем», а российские контакты направлены на то, чтобы «сдержать натиск возмущения» против нас.
🔹 Огульные заявления не выдерживают критики. Руководство России активно вовлечено в международные дела. Очередным подтверждением тому является насыщенная программа африканского турне Министра иностранных дел С.В.Лаврова.
🔹 В ходе визитов в Египет и Республику Конго глава российской дипломатии не только провел обстоятельные переговоры со своими коллегами, но и был принят руководителями государств. В Каире Министр встретился с Генеральным секретарем Лиги арабских государств и постоянными представителями стран-членов организации.
🔹 Попытки представить нашу страну изолированной вызваны «воспаленным воображением» американских деятелей, которые все больше утрачивают связь с реальностью. Примечательно, что пропитанное русофобией стремление внешнеполитического ведомства США исказить действительную картину событий вызывает недоумение не только у нас, но и среди местных СМИ.

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Comment by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United States in response to the State Department's statement about the increasing isolation of Russia

🔹 We paid attention to the statement of the State Department’s press office that our country is allegedly becoming an "outcast", and Russian contacts are aimed at "controlling the onslaught of outrage" against us.
🔹 Baseless statements do not stand up to criticism. The Russian leadership is actively involved in international affairs. Another confirmation of this is the busy schedule of the African tour of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
🔹 During his visits to Egypt and the Republic of the Congo, the head of Russian diplomacy not only held detailed talks with his colleagues, but was also received by the heads of states. In Cairo, the Minister met with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States and permanent representatives of the member countries of the organization.
🔹Attempts to present our country as isolated one are caused by the "inflamed imagination" of US officials who are increasingly losing touch with reality. It is noteworthy that the soaked in Russophobia desire of the US State Department to distort the actual picture of events causes confusion not only among us, but also among the American media.

🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following his visit to the Republic of the Congo

💬 Regarding the incident in Odessa, the obligations that Russia assumed under the agreements signed on July 22 in Istanbul say nothing about preventing us from continuing the special military operation, which can include destroying military infrastructure and other military targets. UN Secretariat representatives confirmed this interpretation of the documents yesterday.

The targets on which high-precision strikes were delivered were located in a separate, military section of the Odessa port. These included a Ukrainian Navy combat boat and an ammunition depot that had recently received Harpoon anti-ship missiles that could be used to threaten the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

The grain terminal at the port of Odessa is located quite far from the military section. There is no obstacle that prevents grain from being shipped to buyers under the agreements signed in Istanbul.

🇷🇺🇪🇹 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Ethiopia on a working visit.

At the airport of Addis Ababa, he was met by his counterpart, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen.

#RussiaAfrica
#RussiaEthiopia

🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s reply to a media question regarding the EU decision to allocate an additional 500 million euros for arms supplies to Ukraine

💬 By providing the Ukrainians with weapons and military equipment, the EU continues to invest in continuing hostilities. At the same time, it is saying hypocritically that it offered an olive branch to Russia. Any attempts to achieve victory on the battlefield is a direct road into the abyss for both Kiev and Brussels.

Since its inception, the European Peace Foundation has already spent 2.5 billion euros on weapons for Ukraine. This accounts for almost 50 percent of its budget up to 2027. Consequently, the EU sponsors should assume the same responsibility as the Kiev regime for the war crimes committed by the armed forces of Ukraine and nationalist battalions for the murders of civilians, women, senior citizens and children and for the destruction of the civilian infrastructure, including bridges.

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🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the safety of nuclear facilities in Ukraine

💬 Recently, increasing concern has been caused by the tense situation around Zaporozhye NPP, which has been escalated by the Ukrainian authorities, including by spreading misinformation about the alleged negative impact of Russia’s representatives at the plant on ensuring its safety.

We have repeatedly stressed that Russia has shown utmost responsibility with regard to Ukrainian nuclear facilities and done everything in its power to ensure not only an adequate level of nuclear and physical safety, but also the greatest possible transparency in this matter.

At the end of June 2022, together with the IAEA Secretariat we prepared a visit to Zaporozhye NPP of an international mission led by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, which was aimed at carrying out activities in the framework of implementing the IAEA safeguards as well as verifying compliance with safety standards at the NPP.

Extensive and complex preparatory work had been done to coordinate all details of the visit: the route of the mission, measures to ensure the delegation’s safety and the involvement of high-ranking foreign specialists.

Unfortunately, the visit did not take place due to the counterproductive position of the UN Secretariat's leadership, which refused to support the IAEA Secretariat's initiative under the far-fetched pretext of insufficient security and poor timing of the event.

Disrupting the visit played into the hands of the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors, who were not satisfied that the Director General, agency experts and international representatives included in the mission would have an opportunity to see the real situation at the Zaporozhye NPP and make sure it was functioning properly.

It was after the disruption of the visit that Kiev's armed provocations against the NPP increased manifold: drone strikes were carried out against the territory of the plant, as well as actions aimed at intimidating its personnel.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly reported on these incidents, distributing information circulars in the IAEA. In fact, by its actions Ukraine blatantly violated all seven principles of nuclear safety, formulated by the IAEA Director General, ignored the resolutions of the IAEA General Conferences of 1985 and 1990, which state that any armed attack or threat to attack nuclear facilities used for peaceful purposes violates the principles of the UN Charter, international law and the IAEA Charter.

☝️ We warn the Zelensky regime against continuing provocations against Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, which could lead to a nuclear accident whose grave consequences would affect more than just Ukraine. We call on the international community to be vigilant on this issue and condemn the actions of the Kiev authorities.

🇷🇺🇪🇹 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President of Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde held a meeting in Addis Ababa.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: We highly value our relations with Ethiopia, which have a long and positive history. We have supported each other under difficult circumstances during various periods in history.

#RussiaEthiopia #RussiaAfrica

#Антифейк

❗️🇺🇸 Очередным образчиком антироссийской дезинформации в СМИ США стала публикация 22 июля в издании Washington Examiner вброса о рисках создания Россией биологического оружия избирательного воздействия, способного поражать отдельные этносы.

👉 Суть фальшивки: враждебные режимы работают над боевыми штаммами на основе генетического кода отдельных наций. Дескать, такое оружие может применяться как для массового уничтожения, так и для подрыва боеспособности противника на поле боя. Доказательств, разумеется, не приводится. Со ссылкой на некоего генерала сухопутных войск Р.Кларка утверждается, что Россия «уже применяла оружие массового уничтожения» для устранения политической оппозиции.

👉 Неприкрытая дезинформация Washington Examiner - нервная реакция американцев на брифинг Минобороны России от 7 июля с.г., в ходе которого генерал-лейтенант И.А.Кириллов аргументированно представил факты о планах США использовать биологическое оружие против зерновых культур нашей страны.

🎙Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to the questions during a meeting with permanent representatives of the member countries of the African Union and the diplomatic corps, Addis Ababa.

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✅ Dozens of military exercises of NATO with Ukraine were held on Ukrainian territory with an obvious anti-Russian dimension. The efforts of Russia during all these years – it was not just, you know, we say today that this is a threat and excuse us, but we need to remove this threat.

✅ Russia, as any other self-respectful country has the right to determine itself what is good for its security and what is not.

✅ NATO, of course, is strengthening the security of its own at the expense of the security of the Russian Federation, because the borders of NATO have been moved just to the borders of Russia.

✅ It's a period of history where we will have to choose either to go down the current, which the West tries to move, saying that the world must be run not by international law, but by the rules.

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Комментарий Посольства Российской Федерации в США в связи с призывами американских сенаторов к ограничению доступа к российским испаноязычным СМИ
🔹Обратили внимание на беспокойство ряда американских законодателей по поводу расширения аудитории испаноязычных версий российских СМИ «Russia Today» и «Sputnik», сподвигнувшее их на написание обращений в адрес глав компаний Meta, Twitter и Telegram с просьбой о введении соответствующих ограничений.
🔹Парламентарии в свойственной им манере в очередной раз ставят все с ног на голову, усматривая в работе отечественных информагентств попытки «распространить дезинформацию», «подорвать демократию» и «посеять хаос» в Западном полушарии. Причина подобных обвинений - недовольство интересом латиноамериканской публики к объективному освещению событий в России и мире. Вашингтонские правящие круги явно раздражены тем, что благодаря качественному и оперативному новостному контенту граждане стран региона делают выбор в пользу «Russia Today» и «Sputnik», а не подконтрольных США изданий.
🔹Исходим из того, что подписчики российских медиаресурсов, вне зависимости от языка вещания, в состоянии сами определить ценность получаемой информации без каких-либо подсказок извне. Лишение их доступа к альтернативной точке зрения противоречит самым базовым установкам о свободе СМИ и неприемлемости цензуры, так рьяно отстаиваемым на Капитолии.