📰 Интервью заместителя Министра иностранных дел России А.Ю.Руденко РИА Новости (25 июня 2024 года)

#РоссияИран

Что касается нашего взаимодействия [с Ираном] в контртеррористической сфере, то оно успешно развивается и по линии специальных служб, и по линии национальных советов безопасности. Здесь, в Тегеране, совсем недавно были представители Совета безопасности России, которые как раз обсуждали, в том числе, и наше взаимодействие по линии борьбы с терроризмом. Это одна из тех сфер, где наше сотрудничество с Ираном имеет очень хорошие перспективы.

#РоссияКНДР

Только что состоялся государственный визит президента России Владимира Путина в КНДР. Буквально на днях наш президент отправил коллеге в Пхеньян благодарственное письмо за оказанное гостеприимство, где он, помимо прочего, подтвердил приглашение Ким Чен Ыну посетить Россию.

Лидер КНДР был у нас в стране не так давно: в сентябре прошлого года он посетил Дальний Восток, космодром «Восточный». Я думаю, как только сложатся все необходимые условия для такого визита, и будет наработана определённая база для тех документов, которые должны быть подписаны на этом уровне, этот визит состоится.

#СевероВосточнаяАзия

Мы знаем о той болезненной реакции, с которой Южная Корея отнеслась к подписанному в ходе визита Президента Владимира Путина в КНДР договору о стратегическом партнёрстве.

Мы неоднократно подчеркивали, что этот договор не направлен ни против Южной Кореи, ни против любой другой третьей стороны, не нацелен на то, чтобы подорвать и без того непростую ситуацию в регионе Северо-Восточной Азии (СВА). Договор является своего рода предупреждением для тех стран, которые, наверное, рассчитывали бы или планируют решить проблемы полуострова и региона в целом военным путём.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during a meeting with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko (Minsk, June 25, 2024)

💬 Thank you for your kind words about the foreign ministries of our countries. We do our best to achieve the strategic goals that you and President of Russia Vladimir Putin have set in foreign policy, and to organise our foreign political activities in a manner that provides diplomatic support for integration.

Yesterday, we signed the Joint Statement on the Main Foreign Policy Tasks of the Union Integration of Russia and Belarus. The statement directs us to always consider the interests of the Union State rather than the interests of Minsk or Moscow separately when strengthening our coordination.

All the agreements concerning the Shanghai Cooperation Organisations have been finalised. As the first act of the Summit in Astana, Belarus will be officially accepted as a full #SCO Member State. Minsk will participate in all events on par with the other members.

🌐 We can report on other matters as well. Yesterday, we held a detailed discussion about the #UN and the #OSCE. You are fortunate in that Belarus was never a member of the Council of Europe, so you did not have to withdraw.

Eurasian security are under discussion as well. Both you and Vladimir Putin have voiced your proposals.

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👉 Mr Aleinik and I discussed how to promote the concept of Eurasian security and get more like-minded Parties involved. I believe this concept has good prospects.

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⚡️ Foreign Ministry’s statement on retaliatory measures following EU restrictions against Russian media outlets

💬 In response to the May 17 decision of the EU Council, banning broadcasting by three Russian media outlets, including RIA Novosti, Izvestia MIC and Rossiyskaya Gazeta, effective from today, June 25, countermeasures are being introduced that limit access to broadcasting resources in the Russian Federation for media outlets of the EU member states and EU media operators that systemically spread false information about the special military operation.

The Russian Side has repeatedly warned at various levels that politically motivated persecution of Russian journalists and unjustified bans on Russian media outlets in the EU will not go unanswered.

This notwithstanding, Brussels and the capitals of the bloc’s countries preferred to further escalate the situation. By imposing another illegitimate ban, they forced Moscow to introduce symmetrical and proportional countermeasures. Responsibility for these developments rests solely with the EU leadership and the countries of this association that have supported this decision.

The Russian Side will revise its decision concerning the above-mentioned media operators, if restrictions against Russian media outlets are lifted.

👉 A list of media outlets of the EU member states and EU media operators, covered by retaliatory measures and restrictions limiting broadcasts and internet access on the territory of the Russian Federation.

🎙️Embassy comment on attempts to whitewash NATO's role in the ongoing European security crisis

▪︎We took note of the hypocritical attempt by the UK Ministry of Defence to portray NATO as a guardian of peace, security, and freedom, while casting Russia as the "aggressor".

▪︎This dubious claim is contradicted by basic post-Cold War facts. Primarily, the full-scale armed aggression by NATO against Yugoslavia in 1999, followed by the unlawful secession of part of its territory, in violation of the UN Charter and other fundamental norms of international law.

▪︎NATO's key member states were extensively engaged in aggressive campaigns against Iraq and Libya, employing the alliance's infrastructure and military capabilities to serve their aims. <...>

▪︎To this set of "achievements" should be added the infamous decisions of the 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest, alleging that Ukraine and Georgia would eventually become members of NATO. <...>

▪︎The alliance's activities neither contain a positive agenda nor contribute to maintaining peace and security. A telling example is the abandonment of promises made to the leadership of the former USSR to create a space of common and indivisible security in Europe. Instead, the West chose a strategy of expanding its sphere of exclusive influence under NATO’s military-political umbrella. <...>

▪︎The leadership of the alliance and its key member states played a decisive role in igniting and sustaining the Ukrainian conflict, aimed solely at containing and inflicting a "strategic defeat" upon Russia. The unconstitutional coup d’etat in 2014 which brought into power Ukrainian nationalists with their Nazi cult of Bandera and Shukhevich; the burning of the Trade union house in Odessa; the eight-year military siege of Donbass and the blockade of Russian Crimea; the suppression of the Russian language and Orthodoxy; <...>

▪︎and, as of today, overt terrorist raids and shelling of peaceful Russian cities with NATO-supplied weapons, such as the strike on Sevastopol on Sunday – all these are links in a chain extending to Washington DC, London and Brussels.

☝️Attempts by the UK Ministry of Defence to cloak NATO's aggressive posture with "sheep’s clothing" of its own making are unconvincing. Russia has never threatened nor threatens any NATO country. On the contrary, as Western decision-makers and NATO officials continually tell us, it is NATO that has for many years been preparing for conflict with Russia.

❗In view of these circumstances our country will persevere in its efforts to assure its essential security interests on its western borders.

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Le reportage de la MBC à l’occasion de la célébration du 🇷🇺Jour de la Russie.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Sergey Aleinik (Minsk, June 24, 2024)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I would like to once again express my gratitude to our Belarusian friends for your warm hospitality and excellent arrangements during my official trip to the Republic of Belarus.

Our talks were held in a trust-based and friendly atmosphere, were quite substantive and covered an extensive number of issues.

We focused on important international matters. We compared notes on numerous aspects of bilateral cooperation, including interministerial interaction and foreign policy alignment.

Key talking points:

• Our absolute priorities include foreign policy support for the Union integration and strengthening international positions of the Union State, the 25th Anniversary of which we will celebrate on December 8, 2024.

• We will provide every bit of assistance to our Belarusian allies in order to get them fully onboard at the #SCO and various #BRICS mechanisms as soon as possible.

• We condemn the Western countries’ actions that have led to the Ukraine crisis and the final collapse of the security system in Europe, based on the Euro-Atlantic principles. In this context, we have paid special attention to the prospects for creating a new architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia, inviting all countries in our common continent to cooperate in this process.

• Our proposal [on Eurasian security] is addressed to all those who are willing to consider the prospect for creating a new security system on an equitable basis with regard for the interests of all countries on the continent and based on the balance of these interests, excluding any outside interference.

• We reiterated our commitment to jointly uphold traditional values and the historical truth, and to prevent the rewriting of history and the glorification of Nazism.

• We noted the counterproductive consequences of politicising international cultural, humanitarian, scientific and sports relations.

• We focused on creating a common Union State space in defence and security. We noted that the joint regional grouping of troops and forces deployed in the Republic, as well as advanced Russian defence complexes and tactical nuclear weapons which reliably shield our common western borders in accordance with the decisions of the presidents of the two countries, are quite helpful in achieving this goal.

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🎙️Embassy comment regarding the developments surrounding Julian Assange

▪︎We regard the release of Julian Assange from custody on June 24 in London as the rectification of one of the many injustices faced by the founder of WikiLeaks. Hopefully, this will enable the journalist to improve his severely compromised health due to his incarceration in a British prison and to resume a normal life.

▪︎Nevertheless, this event is evidently the result of agreements between Mr Assange and the US side, and it remains to be seen whether Washington DC will fulfill its part of the bargain. In any case British justice can claim no credit for this outcome. The authorities initially decided to deprive the journalist of his freedom and to extradite him, and subsequently missed the opportunity to take a principled stand against this unjust and illegitimate course of action.

▪︎Throughout these years, they have acted in the interests of the United States, undertaking the "dirty work" of isolating Mr Assange as part of a collective persecution that trampled on the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and human rights. Now, they have simply responded to a directive from across the Atlantic.

☝️The British government and judicial system will forever bear the responsibility for the more than five years that the founder of WikiLeaks spent in the harshest conditions of solitary confinement in a high-security prison, conditions more befitting terrorists, and the repercussions this has had for him personally and for his family, as well as for global journalism and independent media at large.

✍️ Президент России В.В.Путин направил приветствие участникам, организаторам и гостям XII Петербургского международного юридического форума (26 июня 2024 года)

💬 Благодаря насыщенной повестке и представительному составу участников ваши встречи стали значимым общественным событием. В ходе содержательных дискуссий известные учёные-правоведы, эксперты и практикующие юристы обмениваются опытом, обсуждают законодательные новации и инициативы, расширяют профессиональные контакты.

Россия неизменно отстаивает принцип верховенства закона как во внутригосударственной жизни, так и на международной арене. Убеждён, что в современных условиях именно общепризнанные юридические нормы остаются тем прочным фундаментом, на котором должна строиться работа по укреплению стабильности на планете, защите суверенитета и территориальной целостности государств, прав и свобод человека и гражданина. Ключевая роль права неоспорима и в решении глобальных и региональных проблем, развитии экономических и гуманитарных связей и, конечно, в борьбе с общими угрозами.

🤝 В этом году Россия председательствует в объединении #БРИКС. Вместе с партнёрами стремимся к развитию эффективного правового регулирования, способного укрепить продовольственную и энергетическую безопасность, внести вклад в сохранение окружающей среды и климата, создание справедливых правил мировой торговли и технологической кооперации. Мы готовы углублять сотрудничество в этих сферах и с другими странами, в первую очередь из Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона, Африки и Латинской Америки.

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