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🗓 On February 16, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to #ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 paid a courtesy call on the Secretary-General of AIPA H.E. Ar. Siti Rozaimeriyanty Dato Haji Abdul Rahman 🌏.
🤝 Further strengthening of inter-parliamentary cooperation between ASEAN and Russia as well as Russia’s role of an observing-member of AIPA for more than 30 years were the main topics of discussion.
#RussiaASEAN #AIPA
Ambassador Evgeny Zagaynov’s video greetings on Diplomatic Worker’s Day.
🔹Brief history of Russian diplomatic service 📚
🔹As well as retrospect of ASEAN-Russia relations 🌏🇷🇺
🗓 On February 3, 1950, the USSR and Indonesia established diplomatic relations.
🇷🇺🇮🇩 The two nations saw traditionally friendly, partner relations take shape, which traversed a long and beneficial path over the past years. Their onward development meets the core interests of the Russian and Indonesian people.
Russia has made a significant contribution to the emergence of young Indonesian statehood and to the development of Indonesia’s economy. It also helped to build many plants and strengthen the archipelago’s defence potential.
Over the past years, we have managed to amass unique experience of joint efforts in a wide range of areas. Today, our ties are making steady headway. Moscow and Jakarta have evolved an intensive political dialogue, including at the highest level. There are regular channels for collaboration between ministries, including ministries of foreign affairs, parliaments, and companies.
🤝 Russian-Indonesian cooperation continues to develop in a constructive way. A solid legal framework has been formed. Its cornerstone is the Declaration on the Foundations of Friendly and Partner Relations in the XXI century, signed in 2003. Today we can say that our relations have actually reached the level of strategic partnership. Political dialogue is of high intensity.
Tested over the past decades, traditions of friendship and mutual understanding create conditions for further expansion and intensification of cooperation. The key to success are the invariable feelings of respect and mutual sympathy that unite the two nations.
💬 President Vladimir Putin after the Russia-Indonesia talks (June 30, 2022) : “Indonesia is one of our key partners in the Asia-Pacific. Russian-Indonesian relations are constructive and mutually beneficial and are developing steadily on the basis of long-standing traditions of friendship and mutual assistance.”
⚡️ On the UN International Court of Justice’s refusal to designate Russia as an aggressor state and the DPR and LPR as terrorist organisations in response to Ukraine’s allegations
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💬 On January 31, the UN International Court of Justice delivered its judgment on the merits in the case filed by Ukraine in January 2017 on the Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (ICSFT). Russia’s arguments undercutting Ukraine’s groundless insinuations were heard in The Hague: the Court rejected almost all of more than 20 submissions made by Kiev during the seven-year proceedings, and left Ukraine without any reparations.
❗️The Court also dismissed Ukraine’s insinuations that the DPR and the LPR are allegedly terrorist organisations.
👉 These findings are of particular importance in light of the fact that Kiev intended to use the Court’s Judgment to support its demands for the transfer of Russian assets stolen in the West and the imposition of international restrictions on Russia.
In addition, the Court rejected Ukraine’s claim under the ICSFT that Russia should be held responsible for the crash of Boeing Flight MH17 and did not accept the Ukrainians’ allegations that the DPR was involved in the crash. During the hearing, Russia presented compelling evidence of fatal flaws in the pseudo-international investigation of the incident by the Joint Investigation Team under the umbrella of the Dutch justice system.
With regard to the events of 2014-2017, the UN International Court of Justice was unable to support Ukraine’s arguments about Russia’s alleged involvement and the guilt of the Donetsk militias in the shelling of the Bugas military checkpoint near Volnovakha, the military airfield in Kramatorsk, where the headquarters of the so-called ATO was located, and AFU positions in Mariupol and Avdeyevka, stating that these incidents did not fall under the ICSFT.
The Russian side highlighted the particular cynicism of the Ukrainian allegations: Kiev tried to present strikes against military targets as “acts of terror,” although the Ukrainian armed forces have been firing on the cities of Donbass with heavy weapons for many years, striking civilian objects, including an air strike on the building of the Lugansk regional administration on June 2, 2014, the killing of civilians in an attack on a public transport stop in Donetsk on January 22, 2015, and many other bloody crimes.
👉 Equally cynical is the way in which the Kiev regime tried to designate humanitarian aid to Donbass residents suffering from Ukrainian shelling and the economic blockade as financing terrorism.
The UN International Court of Justice stated that Russia had complied in good faith with its obligations to cooperate in the field of fighting terrorism financing, including the obligation to identify and freeze assets used to finance terrorism; to extradite or independently prosecute perpetrators of terrorist crimes; to provide mutual legal assistance; and to cooperate in the prevention of terrorist crimes. This is fully consistent with the FATF's earlier conclusions about the high level of Russia's fulfillment of its obligations in this area; the FATF assessed Ukraine's claims as being of a purely political nature.
We were bewildered, against this background, at the Court's conclusion that Russia had failed to take measures to investigate two facts contained in information received from Ukraine regarding persons who have allegedly collected funds in Russia to help the people of Donbass. The Court had to go against its own practice and set an unprecedentedly low bar for proving the applicability of the Terrorist Financing Convention when there was no evidence of either terrorism or its financing.
As a result of the proceedings, Ukraine was completely denied all claims for reparation or other forms of compensation.
🔴 #LIVE: Opening of the BRICS Sherpas/sous-Sherpas Meeting, first in Russia's 2024 Chairmanship
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🗓 On January 26, delegation of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 took part in the 3rd Meeting of ASEAN-Russia Tourism Ministers in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹️Participants considered ways to further deepen ASEAN-Russia cooperation on tourism and outlined steps aimed at steady growth of mutual tourist flows and cultural exchanges between Russia and ASEAN Member States as well as providing favorable conditions for the development of business and local communities.
🔹️The delegates discussed activities under the relevant ASEAN-Russia Work Plan 2022-2024 and agreed on developing transport links, creating joint tourist products and projects, introducing digital solutions, as well as exchanging experience and best practices in the field of tourism.
🗓 On January 24, the delegation of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 took part in the 14th ASEAN-Russia Tourism Consultation Meeting in Vientiane, Lao PDR 🇱🇦.
🔹️Participants outlined priority areas for the further development of ASEAN-Russia tourism cooperation and discussed activities under the relevant ASEAN-Russia Work Plan 2022-2024.
🔹️The delegates supported a number of joint projects on tourism initiated by Russia 🇷🇺, Singapore 🇸🇬 and Brunei Darussalam 🇧🇳.
🔹️The Russian initiative aimed at expanding business contacts between Russia and ASEAN tourism enterprises through Russian language training and experience exchange is to be implemented soon.
🇷🇺 🇲🇲 RUSSIA EXPO to host Russian–Myanmar business forum
It will be held as part of a meeting of the Intergovernmental Russian–Myanmar Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation. Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov and Myanmar Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Kang Zo will address the forum participants.
At the forum, representatives of relevant ministries and agencies, business and expert circles of Russia and Myanmar will:
🔹 discuss possibilities for expanding mutual trade turnover and tourist flow;
🔹 present new products and solutions for the markets of both countries.
📍 The event will take place on 27 January in Pavilion No. 55 at VDNH, Moscow.
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💬 Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov: We are interested in developing relations not only through bilateral channels, but also with regional structures: GCC, Arab League, #ASEAN, African Union, CELAC.
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🏆 GAMES OF FUTURE 2024
❗Media accreditation is open till 21 January 2024 https://en.gofuture.games/content/press-center
This unique international event, which has never been held before, will be held from 21 February to 3 March 2024 in Kazan, Russia 🇷🇺.
The international multi-sport tournament in the phygital format will combine competitions in the physical and digital dimensions.
More than 260 teams, more than 2000 athletes from different countries will take part in 21 innovative сlusters, called "challenges", in such areas as sports, tactics, battle, speedrun, technology.
For details:👇
https://en.gofuture.games/
⚡️ On March 25-28, 2024, Moscow to host the International conference on the research education development "Scientific and methodological problems of talented youth involvement into the field of researches and developments" – #ICRED2024.
🎓 Scientists, teachers, specialists involved in research and technological activities of young researchers are invited to take part in the Conference.
👉 Conference participants (speakers and attendees) must register on the main web-site of the “Step into the Future” programme. Deadline for e-registration and acceptance of the papers is February 2, 2024.
The Conference will be held during the International Forum for Scientific Youth “Step into the Future”, which is expected to involve 1,500 talented young people – schoolchildren and entry-level students from Europe, Asia, America, Africa, and Oceania.
🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question regarding Russia’s position on the Taiwan issue
❓ Question: Taiwan held elections today to choose the so-called president and MPs. What is the Russian Federation’s position on this matter?
💬 Maria Zakharova: Russia’s position on Taiwan is well-known and consistent, as set forth in Presidential Executive Order No 1072 of September 15, 1992, On the Relations between Russian and Taiwan.
This position is also set forth in the key documents governing Russia-China relations, primarily Article 5 of the Russian-Chinese Treaty on Neighbourly Relations, Friendship and Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, dated July 16, 2001.
It reads: "The Russian side reaffirms that the principled stand on the Taiwan issue as expounded in the political documents signed and adopted by the heads of state of the two countries from 1992 to 2000 remain unchanged. The Russian side acknowledges that there is only one China, that the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. The Russian side opposes any form of Taiwan's independence."
<...> We believe that relations between the two parties in the Taiwan Strait constitute an internal matter for China. Attempts by certain countries to use the elections in Taiwan to pressure Beijing and destabilise the situation in the strait and across the region are counterproductive and must be condemned by the international community.
☝️ We call on all outside forces to refrain from provocative actions undermining regional stability and international security.
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📢On 1-7 March Sochi is going to host #WorldYouthFestival.
The event will unite participants from all around the globe, with over than 20.000 people from 180 countries expected to join it.
Journalists and blogger, who wish to take part in the Festival’s coverage, are invited to apply for accreditation via the official website (https://fest2024.ru/en).
📍More information about the rules for media and bloggers’ accreditation is available at https://fest2024.ru/en/media/accreditation-rules?fbclid=IwAR0qnX2OJQ6KJqPWx0A_6dpze1aLTSAZHmNvsktXBxdA6FDdU8J3x0H9F-4
🗓 On January 8, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to ASEAN H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov 🇷🇺 attended the annual press statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia H.E. Ms. Retno LP Marsudi 🇮🇩.
The event took place at the historic Merdeka Building in Bandung where Indonesia hosted the Asia-Africa Conference in 1955.
We wholeheartedly congratulate Indonesia 🇮🇩 on the successful ASEAN Chairmanship in 2023. 👏
Dear followers! Thanks for being with us this year! We wish you happy and prosperous New Year 2024!🌲☃️❄️🎁🔴
Sincerely yours,
Russian Permanent Mission to ASEAN
📰 Russia's Ambassador Evgeny Zagaynov's article “Russian diplomacy in the changing world”
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Key talking points:
🔹 Every year, on February 10, Russia celebrates Diplomatic Workers' Day. This occasion serves not only to honour the achievements of Russian diplomats but also to underscore the importance of their contributions to the nation's foreign policy objectives and global engagement.
🔹 Against complex geopolitical backdrop Russia continues to play its role as a major global player and promote cooperation with its friends, the importance of effective diplomacy has never been greater. Fostering relations with the countries of Southeast Asia has traditionally been one of its priorities. These ties are deeply rooted in history.
🔹 Today, Russia is working with ASEAN and its Member States on a wide range of issues, from trade and investment to regional security and healthcare.
🔹 We are firmly committed to further contributing to our cooperation with ASEAN in the existing areas and forging new ones.
🇷🇺 Congratulations from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mr. Sergey Lavrov with the Diplomatic workers’ day 🤝
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⚡️ On the International Court of Justice finding no discrimination against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Russia and completely rejecting Ukraine’s reparations claims
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💬 On January 31, 2024, the UN International Court of Justice released its final Judgment in the dispute with Russia initiated by Ukraine in January 2017, based on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The court rejected practically all Ukraine’s demands and recognised that Russia’s policy conforms to its commitments under the convention. There is no discrimination against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.
The main false accusation levelled by Kiev against Russia was that:
• Russia’s law-enforcement actions against members of the terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and the extremist groups Tablighi Jamaat and the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People constituted persecution of Crimean Tatars on ethnic grounds. The court did not agree with this assessment. It did not find any elements of discrimination in the standards of Russian anti-extremist legislation. Nor did it detect any signs of racial discrimination in the application of these standards by Russian law-enforcement bodies.
• The court did not find that the ban on the Mejlis, which Russia has outlawed as an extremist organisation, violated the Convention. It emphasised in its Judgment that the Qurultay is the representative body of the Crimean Tatar people. It was not banned and continues fulfilling its functions in Crimea.
• The court rejected Ukraine’s accusations of Russia’s alleged involvement in the targeted murders and abductions of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.
• The court also rejected all Ukraine’s claims on the issues of citizenship. It did not identify any cases of racial discrimination in the Russian laws on granting citizenship in Crimea since 2014.
• Ukraine’s allegations about the infringement of the rights of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians to access to their national media, assemblies and rallies and the preservation of cultural heritage sites were also found to lack merit.
• Russia’s restoration of the Khan’s Palace in Bachchisarai was not a “cultural catastrophe” as Ukrainian representatives tried to present it. It was necessary to remedy the effects of negligence on the part of the Ukrainian authorities that had brought this landmark of history and culture to a dilapidated state.
• The International Court of Justice recognised that the residents of Crimea have access to education in the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages. At the same time, a majority on the court ruled that the sharp reduction in the number of schools with instruction in Ukrainian after Crimea’s transfer to Russia’s jurisdiction in 2014, is a violation of its commitments on the right to education under the CERD.
☝️ This finding is controversial enough, especially considering that the court admitted that Crimeans chose instruction in Russian of their own free will. Were the Russian authorities supposed to drag children into Ukrainian schools against their will? All those who want instruction in Ukrainian will be granted this opportunity in one way or another in accordance with current legislation.
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✅ The case is over. Russia is not supposed to take any special action to fulfil this judgment. All of Ukraine’s demands for reparations have been rejected.
⚡️ On September 15 to 29 Moscow and Yekaterinburg will host the 2024 #WorldFriendshipGames, a new multi-sport tournament free from any form of discrimination.
Leading athletes from all continents are invited to take part. The only criterion for participation is the athlete's own sporting performance.
🚴♂️ The event will feature competitions in 33 summer sports.
🌐 About 7900 athletes from more than 70 countries are expected to take part.
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🇷🇺 🤝 🇮🇳 On January 24, 2024, the reactor vessel was installed in the design position at the construction site of the Kudankulam NPP Unit 4 in Tamil Nadu, India.
⚡️ The work was launched by Andrei Petrov, First Deputy Director General for Nuclear Energy of the “Rosatom” State Corporation — ASE JSC President, and Bhuwan Chandra Pathak, Chairman and Managing Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), who attended the construction site as part of the 4th meeting of the Joint Coordination committee acting as co-chairs.
🟡 The reactor vessel was installed with the Open Top technology, which had been successfully tested at Unit 3.
Preparations for the operation were completed in record-breaking time, i.e. in the morning, the equipment was brought into the vertical position, lifted by crane to a 50m height and taken down into the reactor shaft of the reactor building.
This reactor vessel weighing over 317 tons was brought from Volgodonsk to the Kudankulam NPP construction site in 2023.
Learn more ➡️ HERE
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🔴 #LIVE: The UN Security Council holds a meeting to discuss the crash of the Il-76 plane.
🔗 https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1bfmfqsfl
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🗓 On January 23, the International Roundtable "Role of Responsible Political Forces of Russia and #ASEAN Countries in Shaping the New World Order" was held in hybrid format on the initiative of the Chairman of the ruling "United Russia" Party H.E. Mr. Dmitry Medvedev 🇷🇺.
💬 Dmitry Medvedev: “Russia is paying great attention to strengthening cooperation with Southeast Asian countries. This region is playing an active role in the formation of a new architecture of international relations. Russia has been the ASEAN's reliable and predictable partner for more than 30 years.
It is important that both Russia and ASEAN are determined to continue strengthening these ties. We are determined to expand non-politicized equal cooperation within ASEAN-led mechanisms".
Leaders of major political parties of ASEAN Member States took part in the discussion.
💬 General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos H.E. Mr. Thoonglun Sisulit 🇱🇦:
"The Lao Chairmanship in ASEAN in 2024 will prioritize strengthening cooperation with external partners, including Russia".
He noted that ASEAN countries and Russia share common values. Interaction between the political parties of the ASEAN countries and the "United Russia" party will play an important role in achieving common goals.
🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia Retno Marsudi hold talks on the sidelines of the UNSC meetings.
📍 New York, January 22
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🔴 #LIVE: News conference by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the 2023 Russian diplomacy outcomes
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🇷🇺🇰🇵 FM Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with FM of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Choe Son-hui (Moscow, January 16, 2024)
💬 I am very glad to welcome you and all your delegation members to Moscow in the first days of 2024. <...>
Today, we will have a detailed discussion on topical bilateral matters, including ways to further enhance our practical cooperation.
🌐 As for the international agenda, we are looking forward to continuing our trust-based dialogue on the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia in general. Russia reaffirms its principled position on the need to find comprehensive and fair solutions to the existing problems.
☝️ We have always advocated for talks without preconditions as a path to achieving lasting peace and stability across Northeast Asia. Russia has independently submitted proposals to this effect, as well as together with the PRC, to the UNSC. These proposals are currently on the negotiating table.
We must recognise that the policy pursued by the US and its regional satellites to create security threats for the DPRK does nothing to promote any positive advancements. We will continue to call for the rejection of any steps that lead to escalation and heightening tensions.
We are working together within a broader geography on security matters in the Asia-Pacific region, where we must uphold universal mechanisms rooted in ASEAN proposals and which have been effectively operating for many decades. However, attempts by the US and its allies to create closed, bloc-based formats and to expand NATO infrastructure to this region undermine these mechanisms and erode their effectiveness.
🇺🇳 We have been working closely and very successfully with Pyongyang within the UN and at other multilateral organisations. Russia has always supported the DPRK within the UN and appreciates the fact that you have treated Russia in the same manner, including on matters related to the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.
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💬 #Zakharova: On January 1, Russia assumed #BRICS chairmanship.
👉 One of the most important objectives is to ensure the integration of new members into the BRICS mechanisms without compromising their effectiveness.
🇷🇺🇮🇳 On December 27, 2023, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
✅ The Ministers exchanged views on the further intensification of trade and economic cooperation, including in energy and transport. A focus was placed on establishing stable transport and logistical chains and monetary and financial channels for interaction. They also praised the prospects for expanding partnership in peaceful uses of atomic energy.
✅ The Foreign Ministers noted the importance of fighting neocolonial practices and the need to concentrate efforts on strengthening the multi-polar architecture of interstate relations and on helping countries in the Global South to uphold their political sovereignty. It was emphasised that creating a global economic system based on the principles of equality and justice was a priority.
✅ They reaffirmed their countries’ intention to build up cooperation at international venues, primarily the #UN, the #SCO, #BRICS, and the #G20. They also compared notes on approaches to the situation in Afghanistan and Ukraine, the Middle East crisis, and efforts to create a security architecture in the Indo-Pacific region.
🤝 The Ministers agreed to continue trust-based dialogue at all levels.
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🇷🇺 Russia is renowned for its vast and diverse landscapes, ranging from frozen tundras to lush forests. The country's extensive territories and varied climates significantly contribute to its rich biodiversity.
🏞 In total, Russia has 238 federally protected natural areas, including 107 state nature reserves, 68 national parks, and 63 federal wildlife sanctuaries. Additionally, there are over 12,000 regional territories of various categories. Together, these protected areas encompass about 12% of Russia's total land area.
🐯 On January 11, the Russian presidential website launched an exciting new project dedicated to Russian nature reserves and other specially protected natural areas. This project features thousands of wildlife camera trap recordings and professional photographs from 39 nature reserves (and counting).
🌐 Available at NATURE.KREMLIN.RU, this initiative is a collaborative effort with the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and will be regularly updated with new content.
☦️ Heartfelt congratulations to all Christians, in Russia and abroad, who celebrate Orthodox Christmas on January 7.
🙏 Love, well-being and best wishes!
#Christmas2024 #OrthodoxChristmas
We wholeheartedly congratulate Indonesia 🇮🇩 on the successful chairmanship and looking forward to another year of ASEAN-Russia fruitful cooperation with Lao PDR 🇱🇦 as a new chair! 👏
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