🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during Business Council meeting on #BRICS issues (Moscow, May 31, 2024)

💬 We have agreed to focus our today’s meeting on a most pressing issue – interaction within the BRICS association.

BRICS is a unique interstate format where representatives of various countries of various religions, civilizations and cultures communicate, work and elaborate joint decisions, which are subsequently implemented. All this is done on the basis of equality, mutual respect, openness and search for a balance of interests.

The purpose of cooperation is understandable: to provide for the creation of favourable conditions for the economic growth of member countries, to resolve social problems and to develop innovatory human potential. No doubt that the interests of all member countries coincide in this matter and meet the hopes of other Global Majority countries, which has been confirmed by doubling our association membership in 2023 (from five to 10). This is also confirmed by the fact that over 30 states have applied for rapprochement with BRICS in one form or another.
 
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The BRICS Summit is scheduled for October 2024 in Kazan. As early as next week we will hold a meeting of the BRICS Council of Foreign Ministers in Nizhny Novgorod to be attended by both full-fledged members and invited countries representing a variety of integration entities in the Global Majority as well as other partners in the BRICS+ format.

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☝️ We are going to give priority attention to strengthening contacts with business circles. It is because these issues just cannot be solved efficiently without you.

We will encourage a direct dialogue between entrepreneurs within BRICS. The Business Council and the Women’s Business Alliance set up at Russia’s initiative are already operating. We will support your participation in these organisations in every way possible, especially this year when Russia holds the presidency.

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🎙 Briefing by MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (May 30, 2024)

🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 #SPIEF2024
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 EU's anti-Russia sanctions
🔹 Poland’s decision to restrict Russian diplomats’ movement around the country
🔹 The 10th anniversary of the EAEU Treaty

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#Ukraine

Despite Paris's attempts to conceal the involvement of its military personnel in the conflict, the Kiev regime is deliberately publicising this turn of events in order to once again declare broad international support.

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In addition to France, Poland and the Baltic countries also spoke about the possible deployment of their military contingents. What does that mean? That means that their original plan regarding Ukraine has completely failed. They are frantically looking for new ways to continue this campaign. They are still afraid to tell the truth to the citizens of Ukraine that they have become a hostage and now also a victim of NATO’s reckless gamble led by the United States.

#EU #Sanctions

On May 27, 2024, the European Union introduced another anti-Russia sanctions regime under a far-fetched pretext for alleged human rights violations, reprisals against civil society and the democratic opposition. <...> To call a spade a spade, they have created another openly discriminatory mechanism for punishing Russian citizens for their striving to live in a country free from foreign pressure, to uphold their national interests, to speak Russian, just to be citizens and to love their Motherland.

It is surprising that those living in the blooming EU garden (as Josep Borrell once put it) fail to notice obvious things: Such self-exposing Russophobic stunts merely serve to further consolidate our society that clearly sees the real goals of the European Union and the West with regard to Russia.

🏀The VIII World Games of Young Compatriots will start in Moscow on June 2

With the support of Rossotrudnichestvo, more than 200 children from 30 countries will take part in the event: Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Egypt, Zambia, India, Jordan, Spain, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Kyrgyzstan, China, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Palestine, Serbia, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Sweden, South Korea, South Ossetia.

🏓The participants will compete in popular school sports: 3x3 basketball, 4x4 volleyball, chess, table tennis, wrestling and swimming. In addition, a competition program "Dialogues in Russian" will be organized.

Organizers: Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, Rossotrudnichestvo.
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🏀2 июня в Москве стартуют VIII Всемирные игры юных соотечественников

При поддержке Россотрудничества в мероприятии примут участие более 200 ребят из 30 стран: Абхазии, Азербайджана, Армении, Белоруссии, Египта, Замбии, Индии, Иордании, Испании, Казахстана, Кипра, Киргизии, Китая, Ливана, Македонии, Малайзии, Молдовы, Монголии, Палестины, Сербии, Сирии, Таджикистана, Таиланда, Туниса, Туркменистана, Турции, Узбекистана, Швеции, Южной Кореи, Южной Осетии.

🏓Участники будут соревноваться в популярных школьных видах спорта: баскетбол 3×3, волейбол 4х4, шахматы, настольный теннис, спортивная борьба и плавание. Кроме того, будет организована конкурсная программа «Диалоги на русском».

Организаторы: Министерство спорта Российской Федерации, Россотрудничество

#Россотрудничество #РусскийДом #Rossotrudnichestvo #RussianHouse #соотечественники #India #Turkey #Turkmenistan #SouthKorea #SouthOssetia #Egypt #Thailand #Jordan #Zambia