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✍️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to organisers of and participants of the 5th Kazan International Congress of Eurasian Integration
💬 I would like to warmly greet the organisers of and participants of the 5th Kazan International Congress of Eurasian Integration.
Your platform brings together a wide range of state officials and civil society activists, experts on international affairs, economists and representatives of academic circles; all of them are interested in strengthening multifaceted cooperation across the Eurasian region we share.
In today’s challenging global environment, created by the destructive policies of the collective West, your work to forge a constructive international agenda seems to be in high demand.
Several promising integration formats, including the #UnionState, the #EAEU, the #SCO, as well as the #CIS, chaired by Russia in 2024, function in Eurasia. The initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin on establishing a Greater Eurasian Partnership aims to synchronise collaboration between them.
☝️ You will review a wide range of issues regarding expanded practical cooperation in Eurasia. Certainly, we welcome your interest in such a new multilateral entity as #BRICS, also chaired by Russia this year.
I am confident that the congress will contribute to strengthening friendship and trust between nations, and that it will help draft useful recommendations.
🤝 I wish you successful work and all the best.
💬 I would like to warmly greet the organisers of and participants of the 5th Kazan International Congress of Eurasian Integration.
Your platform brings together a wide range of state officials and civil society activists, experts on international affairs, economists and representatives of academic circles; all of them are interested in strengthening multifaceted cooperation across the Eurasian region we share.
In today’s challenging global environment, created by the destructive policies of the collective West, your work to forge a constructive international agenda seems to be in high demand.
Several promising integration formats, including the #UnionState, the #EAEU, the #SCO, as well as the #CIS, chaired by Russia in 2024, function in Eurasia. The initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin on establishing a Greater Eurasian Partnership aims to synchronise collaboration between them.
☝️ You will review a wide range of issues regarding expanded practical cooperation in Eurasia. Certainly, we welcome your interest in such a new multilateral entity as #BRICS, also chaired by Russia this year.
I am confident that the congress will contribute to strengthening friendship and trust between nations, and that it will help draft useful recommendations.
🤝 I wish you successful work and all the best.
June 14, 2024
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#Announcement
🇷🇺🇧🇾 On June 24-25, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will pay an official visit to Minsk, which will be timed to coincide with the 32nd Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Belarus.
🤝 The programme of the visit includes:
• meeting with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko,
• meeting with Speaker of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova and Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Igor Sergeenko,
• talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Aleinik.
Sergey Lavrov will also lay a wreath at the Victory Monument and address students and teachers at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Belarus.
The two Foreign Ministers will discuss a wide range of bilateral and international issues, as well as foreign policy coordination at multilateral venues. They will also focus on diplomatic support for integration processes within the Union State and efforts to create a new Eurasian security architecture.
They will outline a schedule for further contacts, including an annual joint meeting of the collegiums of the foreign ministries of Russia and Belarus to be held in the fourth quarter of 2024 in Minsk.
Following the talks, the two Foreign Ministers are planning to sign:
✍️ A joint statement on the main tasks in the context of the foreign policy dimension of union integration;
✍️ A joint appeal to the heads of executive structures of friendly Eurasian associations with an invitation to dialogue on security in Eurasia and work on an Eurasian Charter on Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century.
#RussiaBelarus #UnionState
🇷🇺🇧🇾 On June 24-25, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will pay an official visit to Minsk, which will be timed to coincide with the 32nd Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Belarus.
🤝 The programme of the visit includes:
• meeting with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko,
• meeting with Speaker of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova and Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Igor Sergeenko,
• talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Aleinik.
Sergey Lavrov will also lay a wreath at the Victory Monument and address students and teachers at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Belarus.
The two Foreign Ministers will discuss a wide range of bilateral and international issues, as well as foreign policy coordination at multilateral venues. They will also focus on diplomatic support for integration processes within the Union State and efforts to create a new Eurasian security architecture.
They will outline a schedule for further contacts, including an annual joint meeting of the collegiums of the foreign ministries of Russia and Belarus to be held in the fourth quarter of 2024 in Minsk.
Following the talks, the two Foreign Ministers are planning to sign:
✍️ A joint statement on the main tasks in the context of the foreign policy dimension of union integration;
✍️ A joint appeal to the heads of executive structures of friendly Eurasian associations with an invitation to dialogue on security in Eurasia and work on an Eurasian Charter on Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century.
#RussiaBelarus #UnionState
June 24, 2024
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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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#RussiaBelarus #UnionState
💬 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.
Read in full
#RussiaBelarus #UnionState
June 26, 2024
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🎙 Briefing by Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department Andrey Nastasin (Moscow, July 3, 2024)
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime’s war crimes
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Independence Day of Belarus
🔹 London and its loyalists
🔹 UN General Assembly resolution on World Swahili Language Day
🔹 World Olympic Day and the decline of the Olympic Movement
🔹 Results of the meeting of NATO defence ministers
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#Ukraine
• On June 28, Zelensky extended greetings to Ukrainians on Constitution Day. It looked like a blatant mockery of the country’s citizens as well as its basic law. There is no way a person who has usurped power could be considered a guarantor of the Constitution in a democratic and law-based state.
❗️The road to Europe, which Zelensky covered in his “congratulations” much more extensively than the Constitution itself, is paved with dead Ukrainian citizens. <...> Condolences, not congratulations, are a far more suitable choice given the circumstances.
#Moldova
• The European Council has adopted a time-serving and totally politicised decision to open accession negotiations with Moldova on June 25. The Moldovan authorities saw this as the approval of their anti-Russia policy and a free hand to continue turning the republic into a “European dictatorship” under the guise of fighting the non-existent Russian “hybrid threats.”
☝️ Chisinau’s persecution campaigns and arbitrary acts are promoting an increasingly negative reaction in society.
#UnionState #RussiaBelarus #WWII
• Today, 80 years after the liberation of Belarus from the invaders, joint search teams and law enforcement agencies of the Union State of Russia and Belarus discover new crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators.
👉 The enormous amount of work done by the two countries’ lawyers, historians and prosecutor’s offices made it possible to officially recognise the Nazi extermination policy during the war as a full-scale genocide of the Soviet people.
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Kiev regime’s war crimes
🔹 Situation in Moldova
🔹 Independence Day of Belarus
🔹 London and its loyalists
🔹 UN General Assembly resolution on World Swahili Language Day
🔹 World Olympic Day and the decline of the Olympic Movement
🔹 Results of the meeting of NATO defence ministers
📰 Read
📺 Watch
***
#Ukraine
• On June 28, Zelensky extended greetings to Ukrainians on Constitution Day. It looked like a blatant mockery of the country’s citizens as well as its basic law. There is no way a person who has usurped power could be considered a guarantor of the Constitution in a democratic and law-based state.
❗️The road to Europe, which Zelensky covered in his “congratulations” much more extensively than the Constitution itself, is paved with dead Ukrainian citizens. <...> Condolences, not congratulations, are a far more suitable choice given the circumstances.
#Moldova
• The European Council has adopted a time-serving and totally politicised decision to open accession negotiations with Moldova on June 25. The Moldovan authorities saw this as the approval of their anti-Russia policy and a free hand to continue turning the republic into a “European dictatorship” under the guise of fighting the non-existent Russian “hybrid threats.”
☝️ Chisinau’s persecution campaigns and arbitrary acts are promoting an increasingly negative reaction in society.
#UnionState #RussiaBelarus #WWII
• Today, 80 years after the liberation of Belarus from the invaders, joint search teams and law enforcement agencies of the Union State of Russia and Belarus discover new crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators.
👉 The enormous amount of work done by the two countries’ lawyers, historians and prosecutor’s offices made it possible to officially recognise the Nazi extermination policy during the war as a full-scale genocide of the Soviet people.
July 4, 2024