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🏸🏆 The team of the Russian Mission to ASEAN and Russian Embassy in Indonesia 🇷🇺 took part in a friendly badminton tournament with #ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta 🇮🇩. The teams faced off in a friendly yet competitive atmosphere.
🙏 Always happy to meet ASEAN friends both at working meeting and sports venues!
🇷🇺🇮🇳 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, on an official visit to Russia, held talks in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
💬 Vladimir Putin: Mr Prime Minister, this is your first official visit after your reappointment following parliamentary elections. I would like to congratulate you on this once again.
Our countries have long-time friendship and good relations that have evolved over the decades. This year, we are marking the 77th Anniversary of diplomatic relations.
Today, our relations have the status of a specially privileged strategic partnership. We are in permanent contact, and we prioritise the development of trade and economic ties. Certainly, their development meets the interests of the people of India and the peoples of the Russian Federation.
📈 Last year, our trade soared by 60 percent and even more, by 66 percent; it increased by an additional 20 percent in the first quarter of 2024.
🌐 We cooperate closely on the international arena, including at international organisations, primarily the #UN and such associations as the #SCO and #BRICS.
Yesterday, we had an opportunity to discuss virtually all practical issues in an informal setting. I am grateful to you for devoting attention to the most acute issues and for trying to find some options for resolving the Ukraine crisis, primarily by peaceful methods.
Mr Prime Minister, we will be delighted to see you in Kazan this autumn at the upcoming BRICS Summit.
At the end of my opening remarks, I would like to wish you new successes in facilitating the development of the Indian state. You and I know each other for a long time, and I know that your entire life is devoted to implementing the idea of strengthening the Indian state and improving the life of the people of India.
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✈️🎫 ASEAN and Russia 🇷🇺 are proud to announce the launch of the initiative “Expanding Business Contacts between Russia and ASEAN Countries’ Tourism Enterprises through Russian Language Training and Experience Exchange” - a landmark program designed to foster mutual understanding, enhance cultural exchange, and strengthen ties between ASEAN Member States and Russia. This initiative, funded by the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Fund (#ARDPF), is taking place from July to August 2024.
🔹️The project aims to strengthen ties between tourism enterprises in Russia and ASEAN by offering targeted Russian language training and promoting experience exchange.
🔹️Within the framework of the project around 50 participants (in 2 batches) from all ASEAN Member States will get a full-time study of the Russian language, culture, history and cuisine. They will take part in excursions and practices aimed at better understanding the Russian tourist market, studying of the peculiarity of working with Russian tourists’ groups including the methods of attraction of Russian tourists, as well as providing tourist services at a high level.
🔹️This initiative also includes familiarization tours, master classes, workshops and round table discussions with major Russian tour operators, tour agencies and leading hotels in order to get all necessary recommendations for attracting ASEAN countries’ tourists to Russia and share information on new Russian tourist products.
🚩Started in 2010 with an online language course for tour operators from ASEAN, through the years this initiative has been developed into a comprehensive program that includes not only language studies, but also history, culture and field visits in Russia. As a result, more than 160 professionals from ASEAN returned to their countries as Russian speaking tour operators, guides, and hoteliers and now work with Russian tourists, as well as promote Russian tourism products in the region.
🤝The project's outcome is expected to be an increase in mutual tourist flows through the development and implementation of new and interesting tourist products, ensuring a comfortable and safe stay for tourists, introducing new technologies and methods of working with tourists, and improving the linguistic competence of industry staff from ASEAN Member States.
🗓 On July 2, delegation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 headed by the Rear Admiral Konstantin Zadorin took part in the #ASEAN Regional Forum Security Policy Conference (#ASPC) in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹️Russian delegation conveyed to the participants the position of the Russian Ministry of Defence on the current military-political situation in the world and the Asia-Pacific region. Rear Admiral Konstantin Zadorin also presented assessments of potential threats to international and regional security calling ARF participants to follow the key principles of ASEAN-led mechanisms to ensure collective security through constructive, equal and mutually beneficial dialogue.
🔹️On the sidelines of the conference, a number of bilateral meeting with delegations of Indonesia 🇮🇩, China 🇨🇳, Laos 🇱🇦, Malaysia 🇲🇾, and Thailand 🇹🇭 were held.
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hold talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) Heads of State Council meeting.
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🗓 On June 27, Russian Ministry of Energy and Russian Energy Agency 🇷🇺 took part in the 15th #ASEAN-Russia Senior Officials' Meeting on Energy (#SOME-Russia) in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹The meeting reviewed the progress of implementation of the ASEAN-Russia Work Plan on Energy Cooperation for 2023-2025 and identified further steps aimed at intensifying substantive interaction between Russia and ASEAN in the field of energy security and energy transition.
🔹Parties also discussed new joint project on energy statistics under the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership Financial Fund.
🔹️ On the sidelines of the event Director General of the Russian Energy Agency Mr. Alexey Kulapin and Executive Director of ASEAN Centre for Energy (#ACE) Dr Nuki Agya Utama held a meeting.
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🗓 On July 1, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 and Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Indonesia H.E. Mr. Raman Ramanouski 🇧🇾 paid a joint courtesy call on the Secretary-General of ASEAN Dr. Kao Kim Hourn at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
🔹️Prospects for promoting dialogue and multilateral cooperation in Eurasia, as well as developing ties of Russia and Belarus with #ASEAN were touched upon.
🗓 On June 26, Russian Ambassador to ASEAN H.E Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 took part in the “Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC): Reflections and Future Direction” held at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
Key points of Ambassador's remarks:
🔹️Drafted against the backdrop of the Cold War, the #TAC was conceived as a tool to prevent rivalry, confrontation and conflicts. These goals remain relevant today.
🔹️Built upon the principles of the UN Charter the TAC translates the values of multilateralism and equitable cooperation into the regional perspective aiming to preclude any forms of domination or supremacy, double standards or coercion, including illegal unilateral coercive measures.
🔹️Currently the principles of the TAC are threatened by the logic of containment and confrontation. The proliferation of blocs and coalitions in Asia-Pacific leads to its militarization while undermining ASEAN centrality.
🔹️It clearly follows from the TAC that no state should put its political goals above the peace and stability of others. Developing a region-wide system of equal and indivisible security on that basis would be the best way to tackle the emerging challenges.
🔹️As provided for in Article 4 of the TAC, Russia 🇷🇺 consistently proposes tangible initiatives in existing ASEAN-led fora, including the #EAS, for instance, establishing a regional mechanism of infectious diseases prevention and control, or launching a dialogue on tourism among relevant agencies. Practical work in the EAS and other ASEAN-led structures that is now largely replaced by politicized exercises should be resumed.
🔹️The TAC offers a good basis for enhancing cross-platform ties of #ASEAN with other regional organizations, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (#EAEU), thus contributing to a seamless transregional space of co-development.
The team of the Russian Mission to ASEAN and Russian Embassy in Indonesia 🇷🇺 took part in a friendly chess game with ASEAN Secretariat staff at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
Russian Ambassador to ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov and Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Community and Corporate Affairs H.E. Mr. Nararya Soeprapto kickstarted the event with their chess match.
Grateful to ASEAN Secretariat for this wonderful opportunity to foster connections beyond official diplomatic engagements. ♟️♟️♟️
🇷🇺🇻🇳 Russia's President Vladimir Putin and President of Vietnam To Lam made statements to the media (June 20, 2024)
💬 Vladimir Putin: Russia places great emphasis on further strengthening the Russian-Vietnamese comprehensive, long-standing and friendly relations, our strategic partnership. Our ties continue to expand and progress in the spirit of equality, mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests. Our countries are linked by a strong bond of shared history. Next year will mark 75 years of diplomatic relations between Russia and Vietnam. <...>
Today, Comrade President and I have adopted a statement that supports the principles of the Russian-Vietnamese comprehensive strategic partnership and announces new guidelines for our joint work in the future.
☝️ I would like to mention the tangible benefits our friends have derived from the Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union. Enacted in 2016, it has since then vastly promoted growth in Russian-Vietnamese trade through favourable conditions for access of goods and services to each other’s markets, also fostering investment, technology exchange and innovation.
Equally important is that our countries are consistently pursuing the transition to settlements in national currencies and striving to create sustainable channels of cooperation in lending activities and banking.
⚛️ A strategic point of our bilateral cooperation is the energy sector. <...> Russia and Vietnam have excellent opportunities for cooperation in renewable energy. <...> Another promising area for expanding bilateral cooperation is nuclear energy.
We consider our cooperation on the Vladivostok – Ho Chi Minh City maritime transport corridor, a large-scale infrastructure project, to be highly promising. Since its opening in 2022, this corridor has facilitated regular cargo shipments with container ships operating on a weekly basis.
Currently, more than 3,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from Vietnam are studying in Russian universities.
🤝 Russia's and Vietnam's respective stances on these issues are largely in accord or closely aligned. Our countries remain committed to the principles of the rule of international law, sovereignty, and non-interference in countries' domestic affairs. They coordinate their efforts on key international platforms, including the UN, as well as within the #RussiaASEAN dialogue and at summits in East Asia.
During our discussion on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, we expressed mutual interest in building a strong and reliable security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region based on the principles of the non-use of force and peaceful settlement of disputes, with no room for closed military-political blocs.
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State visits of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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On June 18–19, Vladimir Putin will pay a friendly state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the invitation of the Chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un.
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On June 19–20, Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) Nguyen Phu Trong.
While in Hanoi, Vladimir Putin will meet with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong, President To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chính, and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man.
The talks will focus on the current status of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and Vietnam in the trade, economic, scientific, technological, and humanitarian spheres, as well as its development prospects. The leaders will also exchange opinions on topical issues on the international and regional agenda.
Following the talks, the sides will adopt a joint statement and sign a number of bilateral documents.
Friendly dinner with current and future Country Coordinator of the ASEAN-Russia Dialogue Partnership - Permanent Mission of Cambodia to ASEAN 🇰🇭 and Permanent Mission of Myanmar to ASEAN 🇲🇲.
Grateful for invaluable support and friendship!🙏
🎙 On June 14, President of Russia Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the senior officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: Mr President! <...> Let me welcome you to this meeting on behalf of the entire staff. <...> I am confident that today’s meeting will enable us to specify all the areas of our practical work on the international stage.
💬 President Vladimir Putin: <...> I think it is important to assess the current situation in global and regional affairs, as well as set the appropriate tasks for the Foreign Ministry. Learn more
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⚡️ Today, we are presenting another concrete and genuine peace proposal.
If Kiev and Western capitals reject it again, as they have done before, then ultimately, it becomes their responsibility, both political and moral, for the ongoing bloodshed. <...>
❗️I repeat our firm stance: Ukraine should adopt a neutral, non-aligned status, be nuclear-free, and undergo demilitarisation and denazification <...>.
Certainly, the rights, freedoms, and interests of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine must be fully protected. The new territorial realities, including the status of Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions as parts of the Russian Federation, should be acknowledged.
These foundational principles need to be formalised through fundamental international agreements in the future. Naturally, this entails the removal of all Western sanctions against Russia as well.
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💬 In May 2014, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled that, quote – “The president is elected for a term of five years, no matter whether the election is regular or early.” Furthermore, the Constitutional Court noted that “the president’s constitutional status implies no norms setting any other office term than that of five years” – end of quote, period.
What does this mean in relation to today’s situation? The presidential term of the previously elected head of Ukraine has expired along with his legitimacy, which cannot be reinstated by any tricks.
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🇷🇺🇱🇦 On June 10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic Saleumxay Kommasith in the BRICS Plus/Outreach format on the sidelines of the #BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in Nizhny Novgorod.
During the meeting, the Ministers discussed the state of Russia-Laos strategic partnership, as well as the prospects for further advancement. They focused on the implementation of agreements reached following talks between the Leaders of the two countries in Moscow on May 9.
The discussion also covered regional and global issues of mutual interest, as well as the #RussiaASEAN Dialogue Partnership in the context of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s chairmanship of #ASEAN in 2024. Additionally, they exchanged views on interaction within the #SCO and other multilateral formats, including BRICS.
The conversation took place in a friendly and trust-based atmosphere, which is a traditional feature of Russia-Laos relations.
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📰 Russia's Ambassador to ASEAN Evgeny Zagaynov's article “Russian National Day: Celebrating Unity and Heritage" in Antara News (12 June, 2024)
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Key talking points:
🔹 Russia 🇷🇺 is a country with a centuries-long history and unique cultural heritage. Remarkable achievements and contribution of the Russian people to the world's science, literature, and arts are an inherent and essential part of the global heritage.
🔹As one of the founders of the United Nations, Russia has consistently advocated respect for the UN Charter while being committed to the values of multilateralism, universally recognized principles and norms of international law, and equitable international cooperation.
🔹Today, Russia develops amid the continuing tectonic changes in the geopolitical landscape. Despite rampant anti-Russian propaganda as well as the unprecedented avalanche of illegal unilateral coercive measures, Russia remains one of the key actors in global political and economic affairs.
🔹 The #ASEANRussia Partnership has evolved steadily, with both sides working together to promote regional stability, economic development, connectivity, resilience, and people-to-people exchanges. As confirmed recently by the President of the Russian Federation, “promoting strategic partnership with #ASEAN is a major foreign policy priority for us”.
🔹Russia strongly supports the pivotal principles of ASEAN centrality and unity. They are of particular importance nowadays, when the same countries that instigated the Ukrainian crisis pursue their policy of division and confrontation in regional processes and structures.
🔹Russia's joint initiatives have deepened its mutual understanding and collaboration with ASEAN Member States, contributing to peace and progress in the Asia-Pacific region.
🇷🇺🇮🇳 The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin presented the Order of St Andrew the Apostle to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. The ceremony was held in St Andrew’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
💬 Vladimir Putin: It is a great honour for me to present the highest order of the Russian Federation, the Order of St Andrew the Apostle, to Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi.
🎖 It is the oldest order instituted more than three centuries ago by Russian Emperor Peter the Great. According to the statute, the order is awarded to outstanding Russian politicians and public figures as well as foreign leaders for distinguished service. <...>
By presenting the Order of St Andrew the Apostle, we express sincere gratitude for the contribution you have made to strengthening friendship and mutual understanding between our countries and nations. You have always been a strong advocate of expanding contacts with Russia. Back when you were the chief minister of the state of Gujarat, you proposed establishing sister ties with Russian regions, in particular, with the Astrakhan Region.
🤝 As the head of the Indian government for the past ten years, you have made tangible efforts to ensure that Russia-India relations become a specially privileged strategic partnership.
It is with your direct support that largest Russia-India projects have been implemented successfully in trade and the economy, in the military-technical industry, nuclear and hydrogen energy, in high technology and space development. It is hard to overestimate your contribution to shaping a steady foundation for Russia-India cooperation in the international arena, where both our countries protect the principles of multipolarity and strict compliance with international law.
🌐 Russia and India work together to ensure stability and global and regional security, and closely cooperate at #BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO).
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🗓 On June 30 - July 5 and June 20-21, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 took part in the 14th ASEANAPOL Contact Persons Meeting (#ACPM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾 and the 12th ASEANAPOL Training Cooperation Meeting (#ATCM) in Vientiane, Laos 🇱🇦.
🔹️Russian delegates undelined the important role #ASEANAPOL plays in strengthening cooperation and information exchange between law-enforcement agencies of the countries of the region in the sphere of combating terrorism, extremism and transnational organized crime.
🔹️The Russian side reaffirmed its commitment to further promote ties with ASEANAPOL including by enhancing capacity building efforts through increasing the quantity and widening the scope of the specialized trainings for law-enforcement experts from #ASEAN Member States that Russia 🇷🇺 has been conducting since 2012.
📢 On July 3, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to #ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 took part in the Second Meeting of the Group of the East Asia Summit (#EAS) Participating Countries' Ambassadors to ASEAN (EAS Group Meeting) held in Cianjur, Indonesia 🇮🇩.
🔹️Russian Ambassador undelined the important role of this platform in implementing EAS Leader's decisions and promoting tangible cooperation between the EAS Participating Countries.
🔹️On the same day H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov and Deputy Director-General of the Department of Asia and Pacific Cooperation of the Russian MFA Mr. Timur Zevakhin 🇷🇺 took part in the #EAS Group Retreat on Regional Security and Cooperation. Russian delegation came up with several ideas on the ways to enhance the effectiveness of the EAS process.
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🗓 On June 27, Russian delegation 🇷🇺 held its first expert consultations in digital sphere with ASEAN (#ADGSOM-ATRC Joint Working Group Meeting with Russia) in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam 🇧🇳.
🔹️Participants discussed relevant draft Work Plan and outlined main areas of cooperation and further steps in developing ASEAN-Russia ties in digital sphere.
🛬 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin arrives in Astana to take part in the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) Heads of State Council.
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🗓 On June 28, Russian delegation headed by the Deputy Director of the Department of New Challenges and Threats of the MFA Vladimir Salov 🇷🇺 took part in the 16th ASEAN-Russia Senior Officials' Meeting on Transnational Crime (#SOMTC + Russia Consultation) in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🤝 Experts from ASEAN and Russia exchanged views on regional and global security and confirmed readiness to build up relevant ASEAN-Russia cooperation as well as outlined further practical steps in the field of combatting transnational crime.
🔹️ On the sidelines of the event Russian delegation held bilateral consultations with Cambodia 🇰🇭 and Laos 🇱🇦.
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🗓 On June 27, Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN H.E Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 received the Permanent Representative of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to ASEAN H.E. Ambassador Dr Ton Thi Ngoc Huong 🇻🇳 with a courtesy call.
🤝The diplomats discussed the ASEAN-Russia Strategic Partnership and ASEAN-led fora agendas.
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🗓 On June 25-26, delegation of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 took part in the 8th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Peacekeeping Experts' Meeting in Jakarta 🇮🇩.
🔹️Participants exchanged views on ways of advancing the performance of UN peacekeepers through collaborative training and capacity building partnerships, issues related to the improvement of safety and security of peacekeepers and other matters relevant to the UN peacekeeping agenda. ARF officials also visited the Indonesian Armed Forced Peacekeeping Center.
🗓 On June 21, team of the Russian Mission to ASEAN took part in the celebration of the International Day of Yoga at the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta.
We are grateful to the Indian Mission to ASEAN for this wonderful initiative. 🙏
🇷🇺🇻🇳 The President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the wreath-laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square.
ℹ️ The mausoleum was opened to visitors in September 1975. It is a two-story building made of grey marble, with a transparent sarcophagus containing the body of Vietnam's first President on the first floor. The mausoleum was designed and built with the assistance of Soviet specialists.
We congratulate all our Muslim friends across #ASEAN with Eid al-Adha! 🕌 ☪️
May this holiday bring you joy and peace! Eid Al-Adha Mubarak!
The President of Russia met with senior Foreign Ministry officials. Key statements:
The multipolar world order
🔹The world is changing rapidly. Whether in global politics, economics, or technological competition, nothing is going to be the same anymore. More and more states are striving to strengthen their sovereignty and self-sufficiency, as well as assert their national and cultural identities.
🔹Based on this new political and economic reality, a multipolar, multilateral world order is now beginning to take shape, and this is an objective process.
🔹It is in our interest that this dialogue on international relations in a multipolar world also gains traction within the UN, in particular, with the view to addressing the basic and vital issue of creating an indivisible security system.
🔹As part of its BRICS chairmanship in 2024, Russia will assist new participants in organically integrating its structures. Overall, BRICS has the potential to emerge as the cornerstone regulatory structure within a multipolar world order.
Eurasian security
🔹In the late 20th century, the international community had a unique opportunity to build a resilient and fair security framework. However, it did not take long for the system created by the West to prove ineffective.
🔹We are witnessing the failure of the Euro-Atlantic security order. Basically, it will have to be rebuilt from scratch. The goal here is to create a framework of equal and indivisible security, mutually beneficial and equitable cooperation and development across the Eurasian continent in the foreseeable future.
🔹Economic matters, social wellbeing, integration, and mutually beneficial cooperation must play an important role in the new system, along with efforts to address the shared challenges such as overcoming poverty and inequality, the climate crisis, environmental protection, and the need to devise mechanisms for responding to pandemics and global economic crises. The system should be open to all countries within the region, including NATO member states.
🔹We support the initiative by Belarus to put together a charter on multipolarity and diversity in the 21st century. Among other things, this charter could set forth a strategic vision of what multipolarity and multilateralism mean from a broader perspective as part of a new system of international relations which is about to replace the Western-centric order.
The conflict in Ukraine
🔹The events in Ukraine are a direct result of how the world and Europe developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
🔹Without Russia's involvement, without a frank and responsible conversation with us, it will be impossible to achieve a peaceful resolution for Ukraine and in terms of European security in general.
🔹Ukraine must fully withdraw its troops from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, and this must include the entire territory of these regions within the administrative borders they had at the time when they were part of Ukraine. As soon as Kiev makes an announcement signalling its willingness to make this decision, takes concrete steps to withdraw its troops from those regions, and also officially states its plans not to join NATO, we will immediately issue an order to cease fire and start talks.
🔹It goes without saying that Ukraine must respect the rights, freedoms and interests of its Russian-speaking citizens, and accept the new reality in terms of territorial changes. In the future, all these basic, fundamental provisions must be set forth in fundamental international agreements. Naturally, this also implies that all the Western sanctions introduced against Russia must be lifted.
🖋 Article «The humanity should get rid of the colonial system heritage. Colonial powers’ time is up» by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russian Federation, Chairman of the United Russia Party
Key points:
• There is brazen interference in the affairs of independent states, which, unfortunately, still continues in various forms. Despite humanity’s persistent efforts to eradicate neocolonialism, the Western world vehemently resists it.
• The former colonial powers persist in exploiting dependent countries, enhancing their own comfort through the humiliation and oppression of others – albeit employing more sophisticated tools and methods.
• According to experts (American experts, for all their bias), between 1946 and 2000, the United States interfered in elections in other countries more than 80 times. Since 1945, there have been more than 50 attempted coups and military interventions. Of the 174 cases of restrictive measures applied in the 20th century, the United States was responsible for 109. <…> In fact, America has become a global sanctions neo-metropolis.
• In order to preserve its geopolitical presence in various parts of the world, the West relies on the so-called debt neo-colonialism . <…> The neo-colonial powers are using financial institutions under their control and extensively exploiting the difficult socioeconomic situation in many countries of the Global South to induce them to borrow at interest rates that are higher than those offered to the so-called golden billion countries.
• Neo-metropolitan powers have also been targeting certain countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa with their disruptive efforts in order to control their natural wealth, including critical minerals. They focus on gaining unrestricted access to lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt and rear earth deposits they need for transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
❗️ The fight against neocolonialism is not an eternal confrontation for the sake of confrontation itself. It is primarily a progressive movement of states towards civilisational sovereignty, which is crucial in avoiding degradation and devastation in the 21st century. <…> Only fully sovereign countries that have independence in domestic and foreign affairs will be able to effectively counteract the deliberate efforts of the former metropolises to impose unequal economic and political deals on them.
• Investigation of colonial crimes that do not have a statute of limitations should be placed at the forefront of this activity. It is necessary to consider the creation of a single public database (register) of crimes of the colonial period, as well as modern neocolonial practices, at the UN, and work out a scale to evaluate the damage caused by war crimes committed on their territory.
• Neo-metropoles should be hit where it hurts the most, in their wallets, which they are filling largely by exploiting the rest of the world. We believe that the payment of compensations to the victims of neocolonial practices should be based on clear, legally considered and substantiated evidence. Political and diplomatic assessments must be complemented with a legal evaluation of their actions.
• We wish the best of luck to our African and Latin American colleagues. Their success, including in establishing an anticolonial tribunal (akin to the Nuremberg Trials), will be a major step towards depriving the Global North of its domination and towards building a fair multipolar world order.
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🇷🇺🇹🇭 On June 10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand Maris Sangiampongsa on the sidelines of the meeting of the #BRICS Foreign Ministers in Nizhny Novgorod.
During the conversation, prospects for the development of Russian-Thai cooperation in priority areas were discussed, including promoting political dialogue, further building up trade and economic ties and cultural exchanges, as well as issues of combining efforts on international platforms.
Current issues on the regional agenda were discussed.
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🇵🇭 Today the Republic of #Philippines celebrates #IndependenceDay!
🎉 We congratulate our Philippine colleagues and friends on the National Day! We wish them peace, prosperity and well-being!