Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following the 20th Session of the Valdai International Discussion Club (Sochi, October 2, 2023)
#MultipolarWorld
Today we talked about changes taking place in the international arena. The world is becoming multipolar. The expansion of BRICS is the main evidence of this. BRICS is seen as a reliable partner and as a structure that will not disappoint and will help each member feel more confident.
#UN
UN reform must reflect the reality of a multipolar world where the West can no longer claim the role that it is seeking to maintain either fairly or otherwise. The process is underway. We are taking an active part in it.
#Russophobia
What strikes me most is the speed with which the outward civility has fallen away from practically all Europeans, the front they have been hiding behind in recent years, retaining not only the remnants of diplomacy but also traces of elementary ethics. This is a manifestation of what is usually called Nazism – just in relation of Russians.
#SouthCaucasus
We are working with our Azerbaijani colleagues and neighbours to stabilise the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, to strengthen trust, and create conditions for the Armenians and Azerbaijanis to resume their normal life together. I hope that Yerevan should also have a stake in that and will undertake efforts to this end.
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#MultipolarWorld
Today we talked about changes taking place in the international arena. The world is becoming multipolar. The expansion of BRICS is the main evidence of this. BRICS is seen as a reliable partner and as a structure that will not disappoint and will help each member feel more confident.
#UN
UN reform must reflect the reality of a multipolar world where the West can no longer claim the role that it is seeking to maintain either fairly or otherwise. The process is underway. We are taking an active part in it.
#Russophobia
What strikes me most is the speed with which the outward civility has fallen away from practically all Europeans, the front they have been hiding behind in recent years, retaining not only the remnants of diplomacy but also traces of elementary ethics. This is a manifestation of what is usually called Nazism – just in relation of Russians.
#SouthCaucasus
We are working with our Azerbaijani colleagues and neighbours to stabilise the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, to strengthen trust, and create conditions for the Armenians and Azerbaijanis to resume their normal life together. I hope that Yerevan should also have a stake in that and will undertake efforts to this end.
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🇫🇮 Helsinki has closed all border crossings with Russia starting from 30 Nov under the pretext of Russia allegedly channeling the flows of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East to Finland. (Which of course is untrue, though looks less ridiculous against the backdrop of accusations of ‘weaponization’ of time and natural phenomena by Russia.)
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Finnish political establishment having dragged their country into NATO, embarked on the path of Russophobia in line with the general policies of the collective West towards Russia. Finland is about to host foreign military in its territory and does not rule out establishing NATO bases. Seems like border closure is needed to ensure Russians will not send in their omnipresent spies.
❌ Many would go so far as too claim Finland is a peaceful country and cannot threaten Russia. Far from it, as history suggests. Russians could file an impressive list of historical offenses from Finland if they wanted to, starting from as early as the Battle of Poltava in 1709 in which the Finns fought against Russia in the ranks of Swedish army.
Later, when Bolsheviks granted independence to the Grand Duchy of Finland, the neighbour responded with two invasions of the Russian territory between 1918 and 1922, aiming to establish the ‘Greater Finland’ through annexation of Karelia and part of Arkhangelsk governorate from Russia. Both times the uninvited ‘guests’ were thrown out. Throughout 1930s, Finland was forging ties with Nazi Germany.
"If St. Petersburg no longer exists as a large city, then the Neva river would be the best border on the Karelian Isthmus… Leningrad must be liquidated as a large city," President of Finland Risto Ryti told Adolf Hitler in 1941. And Wermacht tried hard, laying siege to Leningrad in 1941-1944.
☝️Modern revanchist elites in Finland justify complicity in Nazi crimes against the Soviet Union, including the siege and imprisoning Soviet people in Finnish concentration camps, by the pursuit of ‘restoring justice’ after the ‘unprovoked’ Winter War of the USSR against Finland. Yet for some reason Finnish nationalists omit some facts – like the extremely hostile stance of then ruling circles of Finland towards the Soviet Union, their close collaboration with the Third Reich, including in military sphere, as well as Helsinki’s refuse of any cooperation with the Moscow against probable Nazi aggression.
❗️Today building fences along a border becomes trendy in the West, despite calls by former chief of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker to ‘build bridges, not walls’. We only hope that Finland’s increasingly Russophobic stance acquired together with NATO membership will not lead to catastrophic consequences.
#russia #finland #nato #russophobia
READ IN FULL
Finnish political establishment having dragged their country into NATO, embarked on the path of Russophobia in line with the general policies of the collective West towards Russia. Finland is about to host foreign military in its territory and does not rule out establishing NATO bases. Seems like border closure is needed to ensure Russians will not send in their omnipresent spies.
❌ Many would go so far as too claim Finland is a peaceful country and cannot threaten Russia. Far from it, as history suggests. Russians could file an impressive list of historical offenses from Finland if they wanted to, starting from as early as the Battle of Poltava in 1709 in which the Finns fought against Russia in the ranks of Swedish army.
Later, when Bolsheviks granted independence to the Grand Duchy of Finland, the neighbour responded with two invasions of the Russian territory between 1918 and 1922, aiming to establish the ‘Greater Finland’ through annexation of Karelia and part of Arkhangelsk governorate from Russia. Both times the uninvited ‘guests’ were thrown out. Throughout 1930s, Finland was forging ties with Nazi Germany.
"If St. Petersburg no longer exists as a large city, then the Neva river would be the best border on the Karelian Isthmus… Leningrad must be liquidated as a large city," President of Finland Risto Ryti told Adolf Hitler in 1941. And Wermacht tried hard, laying siege to Leningrad in 1941-1944.
☝️Modern revanchist elites in Finland justify complicity in Nazi crimes against the Soviet Union, including the siege and imprisoning Soviet people in Finnish concentration camps, by the pursuit of ‘restoring justice’ after the ‘unprovoked’ Winter War of the USSR against Finland. Yet for some reason Finnish nationalists omit some facts – like the extremely hostile stance of then ruling circles of Finland towards the Soviet Union, their close collaboration with the Third Reich, including in military sphere, as well as Helsinki’s refuse of any cooperation with the Moscow against probable Nazi aggression.
❗️Today building fences along a border becomes trendy in the West, despite calls by former chief of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker to ‘build bridges, not walls’. We only hope that Finland’s increasingly Russophobic stance acquired together with NATO membership will not lead to catastrophic consequences.
#russia #finland #nato #russophobia
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