🇷🇺 Russia's position at the #UNGA78 regarding food security 🌾

☝️ We note the need to uphold the central role of the Rome-based international organizations — the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development — in coordinating international efforts to strengthen global food security, eliminate hunger, improve nutrition, and ensure sustainable agriculture and rural development.

We are actively engaged in the follow-up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit to transform food systems. We assume that the transformation of international food systems should take into account national priorities and specific circumstances.

We oppose Western countries' attempts to hold Russia responsible for the global food crisis.

👉 In our contacts with friendly states and within various international fora, we endeavour to explain the real consequences and impact of the unilateral restrictions imposed against us.

❗️ We consider it crucial to prevent the politicization of international cooperation in the agrifood sector and the provision of humanitarian assistance, as well as the instrumentalization of the anti-famine agenda for commercial, economic and geopolitical purposes.

👉 We pay particular attention to ensuring stable and uninterrupted food supply chains and correcting distortions in the fertilizer market, primarily for the benefit of those in need in developing countries.

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⚡️ Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:

Arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation

📃 We have consistently advocated for strengthening the existing and developing, through consensus, new treaty regimes in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation.

The UN and its multilateral disarmament mechanism should play a central role in this process.

We are working to increase the efficiency and consistency of the work of its key elements – the First Committee of the UNGA, the UN Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament.

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🌏 On September 5-10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Indonesia, Bangladesh and India.

🇮🇩 In Indonesia the Minister took part in the 18th East Asia Summit. On the event's sidelines Sergey Lavrov met with the Foreign Ministers of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Indonesia Retno Marsudi, as well as Secretary General of the Indian Ocean Rim Association Salman Al Farisi.

🇧🇩 During the working visit to Bangladesh, Russia's top diplomat held talks with his counterpart A.K.Abdul Momen and was received by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Parties discussed the state of bilateral relations and their development prospects.

Sergey Lavrov also visited the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum, made an entry in the book of honored guests.

🇮🇳 In India the Minister led the Russian delegation at the G20 Summit, took part in its plenary sessions. During the meeting the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration was adopted.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: The G20 Summit was an unqualified success. The G20 is undergoing an internal reform. One aspect of this reform is that the member countries representing the Global South have become more proactiv. They have been clear and persistent in ensuring that their interests are included in the agreements negotiated by the G20.

Good morning, India! 🌞 शुभ प्रभात, भारत!

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🔴 LIVE: Plenary Session of the Eastern Economic Forum 2023 #EEF

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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from Izvestia on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (Vladivostok, September 12, 2023)

❓ Question: What signs of Russia’s pivot to the East do you see now ahead of the plenary meeting? What economic prospects are opening before our country?

💬 This phrase – “pivot to the East” – is misleading and obscures the meaning of current developments.

We have never turned away from the East. For nearly 20 years after Vladimir Putin became President of Russia, our foreign, economic & investment policies have always taken into account the immense advantages available in the east of our country & on the Eurasian continent.

These advantages <...> were not taken into consideration or put to use in the late 1990s after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Objectively, the Western dimension prevailed at that time.

The Russian Far East & Northern Russia, this Eastern flagship of our continent, came to attract increased attention long before the current developments. Moreover, this was not only in a token way, because Russia adopted concrete investment programmes, created new transport & logistical routes, developed ports, built new ships & oil tankers, grain carriers & freighters, and much else.

☝️ But the West decided to “strike an attitude” & “punish” Russia with sanctions for our reluctance and inability to tolerate its plans to use Ukraine to undermine our security & eradicate all things Russian on Ukrainian territory, which was created & licked into shape by Russian tsars, engineers & military leaders.

When the West introduced sanctions against us as a punishment for the failure of its plan, what we did in terms of economic development & foreign economic ties in the East started exceeding the Western dimension to a great extent. The EU, NATO, & other residents of Europe that have joined the sanctions are depriving themselves of the advantages they used to enjoy in the past.

👉 This is a historic & objective trend & it will only grow stronger.

⚡️ Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:

Rights of the child

👶 We advocate strengthening international cooperation in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, taking into account the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the outcome document of the 27th special session of the UNGA entitled "A World Fit for Children", which proclaimed, in particular, the need for a family environment for the full and harmonious development of a child's personality.

❗️ We note the importance of the right of parents and/or legal guardians to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of his/her rights.

We pay close attention to the problem of children in armed conflict, including within the framework of the UNSC.

We strongly condemn the UN Secretary-General's biased decision to include the Russian Armed Forces in the list of parties responsible for violations against children in Ukraine in his relevant annual report for 2022.

We believe that the list of violators should include the Ukrainian armed forces, which have committed numerous crimes against minors.

📃 We support the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and look forward to further cooperation with her. We encourage the Special Representative to use only verified facts when it comes to the situation of children in Ukraine, avoiding politicization of the issue.

🔴 #LIVE: Meeting of the UN Security Council on the issue of Western arms' supplies to Ukraine (on the initiative of the Russian delegation)

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