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💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the CIS Foreign Ministers Council meeting.
📍 Dushanbe, May 13, 2022
☝️ The CIS countries unanimously confirmed their commitment to cooperation in this format. All of them want the CIS to grow more influential. This will be facilitated by today’s decision to consider in practical terms the CIS’s request to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to grant it observer status at the #CSTO.
🇦🇫 Obviously, #Afghanistan needs to be rebuilt. We must not let the situation collapse and destabilise again. It would be hard on the Afghan people who had been suffering under NATO’s presence for twenty years.
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📍 Dushanbe, May 13, 2022
☝️ The CIS countries unanimously confirmed their commitment to cooperation in this format. All of them want the CIS to grow more influential. This will be facilitated by today’s decision to consider in practical terms the CIS’s request to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to grant it observer status at the #CSTO.
🇦🇫 Obviously, #Afghanistan needs to be rebuilt. We must not let the situation collapse and destabilise again. It would be hard on the Afghan people who had been suffering under NATO’s presence for twenty years.
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📸 FM Sergey #Lavrov took part in the #FamilyPhoto ceremony ahead of the #CSTO Foreign Ministers Council meeting.
#RussiaCSTO #CSTOMinisterial
#RussiaCSTO #CSTOMinisterial
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🔴 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following the #CSTO Foreign Ministers Council meeting.
🔗 https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/629f77494529312aa1bf80e5/21030/English
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
🔗 https://alert.ruptly.tv/event/629f77494529312aa1bf80e5/21030/English
🔗 https://mid.ru/en/press_service/video/
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📸 #FamilyPhoto
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO Member States & the Secretary General of the CSTO take part in the traditional photo ceremony ahead of the #CSTO Ministerial
📍 Yerevan
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO Member States & the Secretary General of the CSTO take part in the traditional photo ceremony ahead of the #CSTO Ministerial
📍 Yerevan
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📸 #FamilyPhoto
Foreign Ministers, Defence Ministers and the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the #CSTO Member States and the Secretary General of the CSTO take part in a photo ceremony ahead of a Joint Meeting in Yerevan
Foreign Ministers, Defence Ministers and the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the #CSTO Member States and the Secretary General of the CSTO take part in a photo ceremony ahead of a Joint Meeting in Yerevan
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✍️ Signing ceremony following a Joint Meeting of the #CSTO Foreign Ministers Council, Defence Ministers Council and the CSTO Committee of the Secretaries of the Security Councils
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🎙 President Vladimir Putin took part in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO) summit in Armenia.
Key points:
🔹 Military-technical cooperation between the CSTO member states is expanding.
🔹 All of us rally together to preserve the memory of the common history of our states, of the fact that our peoples won in the Great Patriotic War together.
🔹 Cooperation in the CSTO format yields tangible, practical results and helps us ensure the protection of our countries' national interests, sovereignty and independence.
🔹 The threat of militants from different international terrorist organisations penetrating the CSTO member states’ territories remains high. The spread of extremist ideology among the people of the Central Asian countries promotes the risk of increased activity of the radical underground in the region.
🔹 We will facilitate stabilisation in Afghanistan through other multilateral mechanisms as well.
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Key points:
🔹 Military-technical cooperation between the CSTO member states is expanding.
🔹 All of us rally together to preserve the memory of the common history of our states, of the fact that our peoples won in the Great Patriotic War together.
🔹 Cooperation in the CSTO format yields tangible, practical results and helps us ensure the protection of our countries' national interests, sovereignty and independence.
🔹 The threat of militants from different international terrorist organisations penetrating the CSTO member states’ territories remains high. The spread of extremist ideology among the people of the Central Asian countries promotes the risk of increased activity of the radical underground in the region.
🔹 We will facilitate stabilisation in Afghanistan through other multilateral mechanisms as well.
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🇷🇺🇦🇲 Following the #CSTO summit, President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a separate meeting with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
💬 President Putin: First, I would like to thank you for your invitation, and to congratulate you on a successful CSTO chairmanship, nearly its successful completion. Indeed, Armenia was actively engaged in this work at a very high level.
You also spoke about our bilateral relations that are certainly allied and have roots that go deep into ancient times.
As for today, indeed, our trade increased by 12 percent last year and by 67 percent in the first nine months of this year. Yes, this is partly due to the situation today, but it will certainly be a good contribution to the future, we have no doubt about that.
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#RussiaArmenia
💬 President Putin: First, I would like to thank you for your invitation, and to congratulate you on a successful CSTO chairmanship, nearly its successful completion. Indeed, Armenia was actively engaged in this work at a very high level.
You also spoke about our bilateral relations that are certainly allied and have roots that go deep into ancient times.
As for today, indeed, our trade increased by 12 percent last year and by 67 percent in the first nine months of this year. Yes, this is partly due to the situation today, but it will certainly be a good contribution to the future, we have no doubt about that.
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#RussiaArmenia
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⚡️Main Foreign Policy Outcomes of 2022⚡️
The year 2022 saw history-making events, such as the emergence of a new international reality, and became a turning point for Russia’s foreign policy.
👉 The recognition of the Donetsk & Lugansk People’s Republics, the start of the Special Military Operation in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, the referendums held in the DPR & LPR and the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye & Kherson regions and their subsequent integration into Russia – these events will forever go down in the history of Russia.
They put an end to 30 years of Russia’s honest attempts to develop equitable relations with the collective West.
✍️ Russia & other like-minded countries adopted a political declaration in support of the inviolability of the UN Charter.
✍️ An overwhelming majority of states members of the UN GA approved the annual Russia-initiated resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism.
✍️ At Russia’s initiative, the Joint Statement of the Leaders of the 5 Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War & Avoiding Arms Races was adopted in January 2022.
✅ International cooperation within the framework of the #EAEU, #SCO & #BRICS made rapid headway.
✅ Allied relations with Belarus continued to grow stronger.
✅ Several major initiatives have been implemented within the framework of the #CIS aimed at strengthening integration ties in all spheres of the organisation’s activities.
✅ The mechanisms of the #CSTO operated efficiently.
Russian diplomats have significantly stepped up efforts to achieve the peaceful settlement of international conflicts. Russia extensively supported stabilising the situation in Afghanistan. Russia has promoted a complex approach to the Syrian dossier, including within the Astana format. We have promoted comprehensive normalisation of the relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
We have successfully developed ties with our many international partners who are interested in maintaining a constructive dialogue with Russia.
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The year 2022 saw history-making events, such as the emergence of a new international reality, and became a turning point for Russia’s foreign policy.
👉 The recognition of the Donetsk & Lugansk People’s Republics, the start of the Special Military Operation in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, the referendums held in the DPR & LPR and the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye & Kherson regions and their subsequent integration into Russia – these events will forever go down in the history of Russia.
They put an end to 30 years of Russia’s honest attempts to develop equitable relations with the collective West.
✍️ Russia & other like-minded countries adopted a political declaration in support of the inviolability of the UN Charter.
✍️ An overwhelming majority of states members of the UN GA approved the annual Russia-initiated resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism.
✍️ At Russia’s initiative, the Joint Statement of the Leaders of the 5 Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War & Avoiding Arms Races was adopted in January 2022.
✅ International cooperation within the framework of the #EAEU, #SCO & #BRICS made rapid headway.
✅ Allied relations with Belarus continued to grow stronger.
✅ Several major initiatives have been implemented within the framework of the #CIS aimed at strengthening integration ties in all spheres of the organisation’s activities.
✅ The mechanisms of the #CSTO operated efficiently.
Russian diplomats have significantly stepped up efforts to achieve the peaceful settlement of international conflicts. Russia extensively supported stabilising the situation in Afghanistan. Russia has promoted a complex approach to the Syrian dossier, including within the Astana format. We have promoted comprehensive normalisation of the relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
We have successfully developed ties with our many international partners who are interested in maintaining a constructive dialogue with Russia.
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