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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during a news conference to sum up his visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan
📍 Samarkand, April 14, 2023
🌐 The CIS Foreign Ministers Council held its meeting in a business-like and trust-based atmosphere, which is the way it should be among friends. We focused on the international situation, which has achieved an unprecedented level of escalation due to the hybrid war unleased by the West to secure its global dominance & to halt objective processes paving the way to the emergence of a multipolar world order.
📃 Russia’s Foreign Policy Concept reserves a special place for promoting wide-reaching partnerships across Eurasia. Organisations in this space, including the #CIS, the #CSTO, the #EAEU & the #SCO have a special role to play in these efforts.
🇺🇳 As regards political matters, we spoke out strongly in favour of respecting the UN Charter & refraining from singling out some of the provisions from it, while failing to comply with others, as is the case for our Western colleagues.
🔹 Despite the sanctions the West has imposed on Russia & Belarus, & despite the fact that the US & the EU have been trying to intimidate all our partners into stopping to work with Russia & Belarus & to impose the so-called secondary sanctions or punish them by other means, trade within the CIS has been on the rise.
🔹 During his visit to Beijing, President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke at a news conference, calling for a move away from the US dollar & reliance on national currencies in mutual trade. This tendency is irreversible.
❗️ Ukraine is used as an expendable product. The stake of the West is not to allow a single event to cast doubt on its claims to dominate the world order.
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📍 Samarkand, April 14, 2023
🌐 The CIS Foreign Ministers Council held its meeting in a business-like and trust-based atmosphere, which is the way it should be among friends. We focused on the international situation, which has achieved an unprecedented level of escalation due to the hybrid war unleased by the West to secure its global dominance & to halt objective processes paving the way to the emergence of a multipolar world order.
📃 Russia’s Foreign Policy Concept reserves a special place for promoting wide-reaching partnerships across Eurasia. Organisations in this space, including the #CIS, the #CSTO, the #EAEU & the #SCO have a special role to play in these efforts.
🇺🇳 As regards political matters, we spoke out strongly in favour of respecting the UN Charter & refraining from singling out some of the provisions from it, while failing to comply with others, as is the case for our Western colleagues.
🔹 Despite the sanctions the West has imposed on Russia & Belarus, & despite the fact that the US & the EU have been trying to intimidate all our partners into stopping to work with Russia & Belarus & to impose the so-called secondary sanctions or punish them by other means, trade within the CIS has been on the rise.
🔹 During his visit to Beijing, President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke at a news conference, calling for a move away from the US dollar & reliance on national currencies in mutual trade. This tendency is irreversible.
❗️ Ukraine is used as an expendable product. The stake of the West is not to allow a single event to cast doubt on its claims to dominate the world order.
Read in full
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺