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🇷🇺🇺🇳 On September 25, the Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in New York to participate in the High-Level week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly, meetings and multilateral consultations.

🤝 Day 1 was a success, busy and fruitful. In total Russia’s Foreign Minister took part in 13 events including 12 bilaterals:

🎙 Remarks at G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting

• Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Wang Yi.
• Meeting with Minister of External Affairs of India, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
• Meeting with Foreign Minister of Venezuela Yvan Gil Pinto
• Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez Parilla
• Meeting with Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Valdrack Jaentschke
• Meeting with Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves
• Meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Péter Szijjártó
• Meeting with Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia Juraj Blanar
• Meeting with Secretary of State of Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin
• Meeting with Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit
• Meeting with Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Philippe Lazzarini
• Meeting with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malta, Ian Borg

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in an informal #CSTO Foreign Ministers meeting on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly

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​🇷🇺💬Déclarations du Président russe Vladimir Poutine lors d'une réunion du Conseil de sécurité de la Fédération de Russie sur la dissuasion nucléaire, le 25 septembre 2024:

🔹Le projet de doctrine nucléaire russe actualisée élargit le nombre d’États et d’alliances militaires soumis à la dissuasion nucléaire;

🔹La Russie se réserve le droit d'utiliser des armes nucléaires en cas d'agression contre la Russie et la Biélorussie en tant que membre de l’État de l’Union;

🔹La Russie peut envisager l'utilisation d'armes nucléaires dès lors qu'elle dispose de données fiables sur le lancement massif de moyens d’attaque aérospatiaux et leur franchissement de la frontière de notre État;

🔹Une agression contre la Russie par un État non nucléaire avec la participation ou le soutien d'un pays nucléaire sera considérée comme une attaque conjointe;

🔹Une menace conventionnelle critique pour la souveraineté de la Russie constituerait un fondement pour une riposte nucléaire;

🔹La triade nucléaire reste la garantie la plus importante pour la sécurité de notre État et de ses citoyens;

🔹Les ajustements apportés aux fondements de la politique d'État russe dans le domaine de la dissuasion nucléaire sont calibrés et proportionnés aux menaces et aux risques militaires.

📺 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on the sidelines of the 79th Session.

📍 New York, September 25, 2024

💬 The formation of a multilateral world requires upgrading of the international governance architecture, if we want to build a more just and democratic world order based on the enduring principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnection.

#G20, as a leading economic forum, can give a powerful boost to these objective processes that are dictated by life itself. We believe that the G20 should strictly adhere to its mandate and not delve into issues of peace and security and other universal problems, which the UN is here to deal with. It is important that the activities of our platform are strictly based on the principle of consensus.

At the G20 summit in New Delhi in 2023, we promised to strengthen the voice of developing countries in collective decision-making. It is necessary to translate these promises into concrete actions. The reform of international institutions, which must be considered as global public goods, should be carried out taking into account the interests of new growing centres of global development. The current conditions show that there have been significant changes in the balance of economic leaders.

📈 Two years ago, BRICS member countries surpassed the G7 in terms of real GDP. According to forecasts, the ten BRICS members will produce about 37% of the world’s output, while the G7 group will fall to 27% or even lower.

At the same time, we can see the African continent and other regions of the Global South and East quickly rising. Russia is actively reorienting its trade to their markets. This includes the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

🌐 Innovative multilateral formats such as #BRICS (where Russia presides in 2024), the SCO, the EAEU, ASEAN, the African Union, and CELAC are becoming increasingly important.

Projects designed to align integration efforts, such as Russia’s flagship Greater Eurasian Partnership initiative, are picking up momentum.

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A tangible progress has been achieved in the context of efforts to de-dollarise the international financial and economic system. In particular, the share of national currencies in Russia’s settlements with the SCO and EAEU countries has exceeded 90%. Russia and its BRICS partners have achieved an indicator equal to 65%, and this figure grows. The share of the dollar in the BRICS payments pattern is currently below 29%.

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🤷‍♂️ Nevertheless, certain global mechanisms are still in the West’s hands, and it tends to abuse them. A matter of particular concern are the attempts on the part of the United States and its allies to impose a confrontational agenda on international organisations in order to make them the vehicles of unilateral restrictions, plunder, impoundment of sovereign assets, trade wars and unfair competition, including in the name of environmentalism and climate.

All of these are clear manifestations of neocolonialism. Over the past ten years, the collective West has introduced more than 21,000 illegal restrictions against Russia alone. Their extraterritorial use – and this is an even more odious, illegitimate, raider-style approach – is primarily affecting the poorest countries and destitute population groups, depriving them of affordable energy, food and fertiliser.

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Another topical task is combat the predominance and influence of Western states’ citizens who occupy top positions in international secretariats.

🇺🇳 A reform of the global governance system should heed the intransient central role of the UN in the system of international relations. The UN Charter and international law should not be substituted by any behind-the-scenes "rules".

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☝️ We should be guided by a striving to achieve genuine multilateralism, the main guarantee of strategic stability, indivisible security and an open and non-discriminatory economy.

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🌐 On September 26, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in a traditional #BRICS Ministerial meeting held on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Ministers had an in-depth exchange of views on a broad range of international issues, including items on the agenda of the 79th UN General Assembly session. Discussions focused on peace and security, global economic stability, and sustainable development. The participants reiterated their commitment to enhancing coordination within BRICS on international platforms.

As part of preparations for the upcoming BRICS Summit in Kazan on October 22-24, the ministers reviewed pressing BRICS cooperation-related issues, including the establishment of a partner country category. The Brazilian delegation provided an outline of its BRICS chairmanship in 2025.

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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hold a meeting on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly

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🤝 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter

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🇷🇺🇮🇷🇨🇳🇵🇰 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan’s Neighbouring Countries, held on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly

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⚡️On International Day for Universal Access to Information (September 28), we draw #UNESCO's attention to the restrictions against the Russian media abroad.

In France🇫🇷, the UNESCO Headquarters host-country, since 2022: 

❌RT and Sputnik channels were blocked;
❌RTR, Rossia-24, International TV Center, Channel One, Rossia-1 and NTV channels were shut down;
❌TASS Telegram channel was blocked;
❌Russian journalists have been repeatedly denied accreditation for various events, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games held in Paris.

👉 The list of restrictions against the Russian media is constantly expanding.

📢Universal access to information is one of UNESCO's priorities. We call on the Director General to speak out against restrictions imposed on the Russian media.