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📺 FM Sergey #Lavrov gave an extensive interview to the RBK Media Holding
💬 #Russia sees #Europe in all its diversity. If the “party committee” in Brussels does not like it, we cannot force them to.
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💬 #Russia sees #Europe in all its diversity. If the “party committee” in Brussels does not like it, we cannot force them to.
READ: ➡️ is.gd/CmnF6B
WATCH: ➡️ is.gd/QSu2kq
February 20, 2021
🇷🇺 Head of the Russian Delegation Mr. Konstantin Gavrilov on the course of the Special Military Operation:
❗️The West refuses to admit that the reason for the special military operation has been the refusal over a period of many years to take into account Russia’s legitimate national security interests. No longer paying any regard to the interests of their own citizens, the United States of #America and the #NATO countries are now putting #European security on the line by inciting the Ukrainian Government to continue the hostilities and to refuse to hold negotiations.
☝️Under these conditions, our country will unwaveringly focus on the achievement of the goals set by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, namely:
🔝 to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine,
🔝and to eliminate the pro-NATO military bridgehead on Ukrainian territory.
✔️By providing military assistance to the Ukrainian Government, the United States and the aggressive NATO bloc are making a mistake that could have catastrophic consequences for all of #Europe.
🔴With the support and at the behest of its NATO sponsors, the Ukrainian Government is continuing its war “down to the last Ukrainian”. The Ukrainian armed forces’ strategy, in the development of which the Anglo-Saxons were involved, is abhorrent.
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❗️The West refuses to admit that the reason for the special military operation has been the refusal over a period of many years to take into account Russia’s legitimate national security interests. No longer paying any regard to the interests of their own citizens, the United States of #America and the #NATO countries are now putting #European security on the line by inciting the Ukrainian Government to continue the hostilities and to refuse to hold negotiations.
☝️Under these conditions, our country will unwaveringly focus on the achievement of the goals set by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, namely:
🔝 to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine,
🔝and to eliminate the pro-NATO military bridgehead on Ukrainian territory.
✔️By providing military assistance to the Ukrainian Government, the United States and the aggressive NATO bloc are making a mistake that could have catastrophic consequences for all of #Europe.
🔴With the support and at the behest of its NATO sponsors, the Ukrainian Government is continuing its war “down to the last Ukrainian”. The Ukrainian armed forces’ strategy, in the development of which the Anglo-Saxons were involved, is abhorrent.
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November 21, 2022
🎙Head of the Delegation Konstantin Gavrilov at the 1035th FSC OSCE plenary meeting:
📆 On May 17, 1990, NATO Secretary General M.Wörner stated: “The very fact that we are ready not to locate NATO troops outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany gives the Soviet Union firm security guarantees.”
❓Where are these guarantees?
❗️More than 30 years later, we still have not received an intelligible response to this question, and the proposals of the Russian Federation to sign legally binding treaties on security guarantees with the United States and NATO were arrogantly rejected by our former partners. Western countries have chosen the path of confrontation.
❓How, in particular, does this compare with the principle enshrined in Article 4 of the Code of Conduct on military-political aspects of security that “the participating States will build their mutual security relations on the basis of a cooperative approach”?
#Russia #SMO #Security #Europe
📆 On May 17, 1990, NATO Secretary General M.Wörner stated: “The very fact that we are ready not to locate NATO troops outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany gives the Soviet Union firm security guarantees.”
❓Where are these guarantees?
❗️More than 30 years later, we still have not received an intelligible response to this question, and the proposals of the Russian Federation to sign legally binding treaties on security guarantees with the United States and NATO were arrogantly rejected by our former partners. Western countries have chosen the path of confrontation.
❓How, in particular, does this compare with the principle enshrined in Article 4 of the Code of Conduct on military-political aspects of security that “the participating States will build their mutual security relations on the basis of a cooperative approach”?
#Russia #SMO #Security #Europe
February 12, 2023
🎙Statement by Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation Mr. Konstantin Gavrilov at the consultations of the Parties of the Budapest Agreement
(30 June 2023)
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🔹Today’s meeting provides a good opportunity to recall that European conventional arms control arrangements were established in the specific historical circumstances of the end of the Cold War. Among them was the Budapest Agreement.
🔹In retrospect, we can safely say that arms control does not exist in a vacuum, it is undergoing erosion against the background of deepening dividing lines in #Europe.
🔹As for the Budapest Agreement itself, it is inextricably linked with the CFE Treaty, and only the States Parties to the Treaty can implement it. Therefore, the Agreement shall cease to be in force for Russia precisely in connection with its withdrawal from the CFE Treaty.
🔹It is obvious to us, that in view of the radical politico-military changes in Europe since the mid-1990s, the Budapest Agreement has become an anachronism.
(30 June 2023)
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🔹Today’s meeting provides a good opportunity to recall that European conventional arms control arrangements were established in the specific historical circumstances of the end of the Cold War. Among them was the Budapest Agreement.
🔹In retrospect, we can safely say that arms control does not exist in a vacuum, it is undergoing erosion against the background of deepening dividing lines in #Europe.
🔹As for the Budapest Agreement itself, it is inextricably linked with the CFE Treaty, and only the States Parties to the Treaty can implement it. Therefore, the Agreement shall cease to be in force for Russia precisely in connection with its withdrawal from the CFE Treaty.
🔹It is obvious to us, that in view of the radical politico-military changes in Europe since the mid-1990s, the Budapest Agreement has become an anachronism.
June 30, 2023