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Основные тезисы:

• В условиях продолжающейся уже без малого девять месяцев военной операции ЦАХАЛ при всесторонней поддержке Вашингтона в секторе Газа устойчивое и адекватное оказание необходимой помощи населению Газы попросту невозможно. Обстановка «на земле» не просто деградирует, а ставит газавитян на грань голодной смерти, и это не фигура речи, а печальная реальность.

• Вследствие продолжающейся военной операции и силовых рейдов Израиля число погибших перевалило за 38 тыс. человек, большинство из которых женщины и дети. Раненых уже более 87 тыс. Десятки тысяч числятся пропавшими без вести. Практически полностью уничтожена гражданская инфраструктура, включая больницы, школы и жилой фонд.

• В условиях тотального отсутствия безопасности крайне затруднительно говорить об эффективности работы гуманитарных организаций. Продвигаемая УКГВ система деконфликтинга и гумнотификаций не работает. Это факт.

• С начала кризиса убито 274 гумсотрудника, из них 197 - персонал ООН, большинство (193) – сотрудники БАПОР. Зафиксирована также гибель 500 медработников.

• Россия продолжит оказывать палестинцам посильную гуманитарную помощь. С самого начала кризиса самолетами МЧС России в приграничный египетский Аль-Ариш для последующей отправки в осажденный палестинский анклав по линии египетского общества Красного полумесяца было доставлено более 500 тонн гуманитарных грузов.

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В условиях непрекращающейся эскалации насилия в зоне палестино-израильского конфликта членам СБ ООН необходимо продолжать оказывать давление как на Израиль, так и на его американского союзника в целях установления немедленного, безусловного и постоянного режима прекращения огня.

Только таким образом можно создать условия для перевода процесса урегулирования в политико-дипломатическое русло, прежде всего – через налаживание прямого диалога между палестинцами и израильтянами по всему комплексу вопросов окончательного статуса.

👉Итогом этого процесса должна стать реализация одобренной международным сообществом формулы «двух государств» – Израиля и Палестины, сосуществующих в мире и безопасности в границах 1967 года.

🎙 Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia’s remarks and answers to media questions on the occasion of assuming UNSC Presidency by Russia (July 1, 2024)

💬 It is a pleasure to see you all on the first day of the Russian Presidency in the UN Security Council. As we are immersing in mid-summer, allow me to briefly update you on what we are planning for the month, week by week.

🔹 July 2 – a briefing and consultations on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, in the context of implementation of the resolution 2720.

🔹 July 3 – a briefing on Haiti followed by consultations.

🔹 July 8 – a briefing and consultations on MONUSCO.

🔹 July 11 – in the morning session, we have consultations on UNFICYP and in the afternoon – briefing and consultations on Colombia.

🔹 July 12 – a regular briefing and consultations on UNOWAS.

🔹 July 16 – open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security: Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order.

🔹 July 17 – open debate on the Middle East.

Both meetings – on July 16-17 – will be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. We encourage the Ministerial-level participation of other delegations as well.

🔹 July 19 – a debate on cooperation between the UN and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security with focus on the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

🔹 July 22 – a briefing and consultations on political and humanitarian aspects of the situation in Syria.

🔹 July 23 – a briefing and consultations on Yemen.

🔹 July 24 – consultations on Lebanon to discuss the implementation of the resolution 1701.

As for the informal wrap-up, the so-called “Toledo formula”, we are planning to do it on the last day of our Presidency on July 31.

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Despite its promoted public image as a safe haven in terms of human rights standards, Switzerland remains a country with many problems in this area that require close attention of both the government and relevant international organizations.

Migration

The specialized institutions continue to express concern about the situation of migrants residing in Switzerland.

🔻Swiss law contains numerous obstacles to the reunification of refugee families.

🔻In federal reception centers, access to education for migrant children remains difficult.

🔻 Force is increasingly used in the removal of irregular migrants, especially asylum seekers. There have been cases of sedatives being used during forced deportation of migrants.

Russophobia

❗️After the start of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, some banks have stopped providing services to Russians who are not on the sanctions lists, without specifying their names. In addition, Russians are being refused to open new bank accounts under the pretext of preventing them from circumventing the sanctions.

❌ There are cases of bullying of Russian children in schools, refusals to hire Russians, and termination of contracts with firms from Russia.

Anti-Semitism and xenophobia

• Anti-Semitism has increased in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In 2023, there were 562 anti-Semitic incidents, 26 of which were labeled "serious" (in 2021, there were 165 incidents of anti-Semitism, including 13 "serious" incidents; in 2020, there were 283 incidents).

• There have been cases of local residents protesting against the organization of Roma parking lots. Roma of non-Swiss origin are often not allowed to stop in certain places at all.

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#Opinion

✍️ Dmitry Trenin, a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, member of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Europe will eventually have to choose between the US and BRICS

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Key points:

💬 Rather than setting out to organize a genuine multipolar system based on mutual recognition of each nation’s core interests, <...> the US proceeded to enhance its exclusive and comprehensive dominance.

• This year, at the #BRICS Summit in Russia’s Kazan, the group will for the first time include the leaders of Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Another major Eurasian institution is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO) <...> to be admitted soon. A number of other Eurasian countries, from Turkey to Thailand and from the Malpes to Mongolia, have voiced their intention to join either BRICS or SCO.

• To counter that trend among the members of what we increasingly call the World Majority, Washington has raised the profile of NATO in the Indo-Pacific; strengthened its Cold War-era bilateral and trilateral alliances in the Western Pacific, and founded a new one, #AUKUS, in the South Pacific.

❗️ All these multiple arrangements are completely dominated by the US and are aimed at containing and deterring Washington’s designated primary adversaries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea – with one overriding goal of defending America’s hegemonic position.

• In contrast to that, neither BRICS nor the SCO is dominated by a single power, or a tandem/triumvirate of nations. BRICS’s recent expansion also suggests that it does not aspire to become a version of the West’s G7, as an elitist steering group, or directoire, for the non-Western world.

• Neither BRICS nor the SCO is overtly anti-American or anti-Western: their main focus is internal rather than external, and they have their work cut out for them.

• The emerging mutual security space within the SCO will make the continent – minus Western Europe, for the time being – far more stable, whether in terms of strategic stability in major-power relations, regional security systems, or the risks of terrorism.

☝️ Eventually, the countries of Western Europe – or far western Eurasia, if you like – will have to make a choice between staying in the US orbit as America’s power continues to shrink, or reaching out east to a vast and vibrant new world next door.

🎙 Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia’s answers to media questions on the occasion of assuming UNSC Presidency by Russia (July 1, 2024)

#Ukraine

• President Putin in his recent remarks (of June 14) said that the reality changed, and we are ready anytime not just to interrupt the conflict, but to come to ending it, but the reality should be taken into account. The new reality that emerged during the period between April 22 and July 24. It was rejected by Kiev and by the West. But the problem for them is that the longer this thing continues, the more difficult the situation on the ground for them will be. <...> So, if they don't want to be realistic, let them not be.

• We are discouraging all countries from providing arms for Ukraine. The destiny of the weapons that will be eventually exported to Ukraine is clear. They will be destroyed, as the other weapons that the West and the US are supplying Ukraine with.

#Afghanistan

• The Taliban is de facto the authorities of Afghanistan. <...> You have to recognize this fact and deal with them as such.

• The rights of women and girls in Afghanistan should be observed and the government in Afghanistan should be inclusive, inclusive not just by nationalities, but by the political spectrum that exists to represent the country fully. The case today that it is not the fact and we have to accept it for the time being and continue pragmatic dealing with the current Afghan authorities.

#Syria

• You mentioned foreign presence in Syria. Yes, indeed. There are many foreign armies there; most of them are deployed there illegally. For example, the US that justifies its presence in Syria by Article 51 of the Charter. I wonder how Article 51 of the Charter works for the US in Syria.

The Syrian conflict is not ending because the reality on the ground is not changing. The Syrian government is subject to numerous <...> sanctions, unilateral coercive measures, with most of them originating in the West of course.

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Состоялась поездка Патриаршего экзарха Африки в Республику Маврикий 

С 28 июня по 1 июля состоялась поездка Патриаршего экзарха Африки митрополита Зарайского Константина в Республику Маврикий.

29 июня в Посольстве России иерарх встретился с временным поверенным в делах РФ на Маврикии А.В. Бурдиным.

Участие во встрече приняли настоятель храма мученика Маврикия протоиерей Димитрий Матиенко и личный секретарь митрополита Константина чтец В.В. Дендюк.

30 июня, в Неделю Всех святых, в храме мученика Маврикия архипастырь в сослужении протоиерея Димитрия совершил Божественную литургию. 

На богослужении присутствовал временный поверенный в делах РФ А.В. Бурдин. 

1 июля состоялась встреча архиерея с министром иностранных дел, международной торговли и региональной интеграции Республики Маврикий М. Гобэном.

В мероприятии участвовали директор департамента Азии, Ближнего Востока и России Министерства иностранных дел, региональной интеграции и внешней торговли Р. Биссундоял, временный поверенный в делах РФ А.В. Бурдин, протоиерей Димитрий Матиенко, чтец В.В. Дендюк.

#BRICS2024

Russia's #NizhnyNovgorod hosted BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting on June 10-11 as well as Foreign Ministers and officials from other nations of the Global South and East. Everyone received a most warm welcome — the memorable experience condensed in a final-cut video of the event

Here's to recall:

👉 Day 0. Delegations arrive
👉 Day 0 video. Nizhny Novgorod is prepared!
👉 Day 1 video
👉 On the outcomes of the Ministerial and FM Sergey Lavrov's participation

📺 © The Nizhny Novgorod Region Government

The World Bank has classified Russia as a high-income country, estimating the gross income per capita at $14,250 per year.

We are awaiting more Western sanctions.

На полях саммита ШОС проходит встреча главы Российского государства с Президентом Монголии Ухнагийн Хурэлсухом

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