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Lavrov/Mr. Nebenzia

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“There are still a number of speakers on the list for this meeting. Given the lateness of the hour, with the concurrence of the members of the Council, I intend to suspend this meeting until 3 p.m. The meeting was suspended at 1.20 p.m.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“I would like to remind all speakers to limit their statements to no more than four minutes in order to enable the Council to carry out its work expeditiously. I now give the floor to the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
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“We appreciate their sincere commitment to resolving every current issue through honest, concerted efforts aimed at harmonizing the balance of interests on the basis of the sovereign equality of States and the indivisibility of security. In conclusion, I would like to address all the journalists who are covering today’s open debate. Their colleagues from Russia’s media outlets were denied entry here. The United States Embassy in Moscow mockingly informed them that they were ready to issue passports with visas the moment our plane took off. I therefore have an important request. I ask them to compensate for the absence of Russia’s journalists and to try to do their reporting in such a way as give the world audience genuinely multilateral views and assessments. I resume my functions as President of the Council.”
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“In 2021, President Putin proposed convening a summit of the permanent members of the Security Council, but although the leaders of China and France supported the initiative, it has unfortunately not yet been implemented. The proposal is directly related to multilateralism, and not because the five Powers possess any privileges over the rest but because of their special responsibility under the Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security. And that is exactly what is now crucial to the United Nations-centric system, which is in danger of collapse thanks to the West’s actions. We are seeing ever-increasing concerns about this state of affairs in the numerous initiatives and ideas of the countries of the global South, in East and Southeast Asia, the Arab and the Muslim world generally and Africa and Latin America.”
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“The Group of 20 could also play an important role in supporting multilateralism if its Western participants stopped distracting colleagues from pressing issues on its agenda in their efforts to suppress the topic of their responsibility for the crisis situations accumulating in the global economy. It is our shared responsibility to preserve the United Nations as a hard-won model of multilateralism and coordinated international policy. The key to success is working together, renouncing any claims to exceptionalism and once again ensuring respect for the sovereign equality of States. That is what we all signed up to when we ratified the Charter.”
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“The current excessive overrepresentation of the West in this main organ of the United Nations undermines the principle of multilateralism. We call on all States that respect the Charter to join the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations, established at Venezuela’s initiative. It is also important to tap into the constructive potential of the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Collective Security Treaty Organization are ready to contribute. And of course we support enhancing the use of the initiatives and positions of the regional associations of the countries of the global South.”
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“And this has all been done within the halls of the United Nations, which was created to prevent the horrors of war. The voices of responsible and sensible forces and the calls to show political wisdom and to revive the culture of dialogue are being muzzled by those who have decided to undermine the core principles of multilateral relations. We all need to return to the source and respect the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter in all its diversity and interlinkages. Genuine multilateralism at present necessitates the adaptation of the United Nations to reflect the trends of the establishment of a multilateral architecture of international relations. Expedited reform of the Security Council is needed to enhance representation of Asian, African, Latin American countries.”
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“But now, as it is trying to advance its own “rules” in the international arena, they are increasingly asphyxiating multilateralism and democracy at home, applying increasingly repressive tools for suppressing any dissent — as their criminal Kyiv regime has done, with the support of its teachers, the United States and its allies. As was the case in the Cold War, we have reached a dangerous threshold, possibly even more dangerous than any we have seen before. The situation has worsened with the loss of trust in multilateralism. When the financial economic aggression of the West is destroying the benefits of globalization, and Washington and its allies have abandoned diplomacy, what they are asking for is to clarify international relations on the battlefield.”
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“Otherwise, instead of a multilateral agenda, there will be a deepening of a division between the “golden billion” and the international majority. Speaking of multilateralism, we cannot be limited to the international context alone, just as we cannot disregard the international context when we talk about democracy. Double standards need to be abandoned, and multilateralism and democracy need to be respected, both within States and in their relations with one another. Everybody already knows that the West, in imposing its understanding of democracy on others, does not want to see the democratization of international relations on the basis of respect for the sovereign equality of States.”
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“There has always been a personnel imbalance there in favour of Western countries, but until recently the Secretariat has at least tried to maintain neutrality. Today, however, this imbalance has become chronic, and staff members of the Secretariat are taking more and more liberties with politically motivated conduct that is not befitting of international civil servants. We urge the Secretary-General to ensure that all of his staff comply with impartiality in line with Article 100 of the United Nations Charter. We also urge the Secretariat leadership, when they are drafting documents on the aforementioned “Our Common Agenda” and the New Agenda for Peace, to be guided by the need to encourage Member States to find ways to seek consensus and to balance interests rather than to help to advance neoliberal concepts.”
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“Amid the hysteria whipped up by the United States and the European Union, we would like to inquire: what were Washington and NATO doing in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya? Were there threats there to their security, their culture, their religions or their languages? What were the multilateral norms guiding them when they proclaimed the independence of Kosovo in violation of the principles of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and destroyed the economically stable States of Iraq and Libya, located thousands of miles from United States shores? The multilateral system has been threatened by the shameless attempts by Western States to subjugate the Secretariat of the United Nations and other international institutions.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“We cannot consider the Ukrainian issue separately from the geopolitical context. Multilateralism provides for respect for the United Nations Charter and the interlinkage among its principles, which was mentioned previously. Russia has clearly announced the goals that it is pursuing through the special military operation: to eradicate the threats to our security, which were created for years by NATO representatives directly on our borders, and to protect people who have been deprived of their rights proclaimed through multilateral conventions from the Kyiv regime’s publicly announced threats to destroy and expel them from territories where their ancestors had lived for centuries. We openly declared what and who we were fighting for.”
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“It openly organized exuberant torch-bearing marches in the centre of Kyiv and other cities with SS division banners held high. The West watched with silent glee, because this was fully in line with United States plans to leverage the openly racist regime that they fostered in the hope of comprehensively weakening Russia, with a strategic focus on eliminating competitors and sabotaging any scenarios seeking to promote fair multilateralism in world affairs. Today, it is clear to all, even though it is not commonly discussed, that this not at all about Ukraine. It is about whether international relations will continue to be shaped through the establishment of a sound consensus on the basis of a balance of interests or through the aggressive and volatile advancement of hegemony.”
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“Our subsequent action to prevent confrontation, including President Putin’s proposal from December 2021 for an agreement to be reached on multilateral mutual-security guarantees were high-handedly rejected. Nobody, we were told, can prevent NATO from embracing Ukraine. For all of the years since the coup, despite our insistence, nobody, and certainly none of Kyiv’s handlers, brought Poroshenko or Zelenskyy or anyone in the Verkhovna Rada to their senses. On the contrary, through legislation, the Russian language, Russian education, Russian media outlets and Russian cultural and religious traditions were destroyed in direct violation of the Ukrainian Constitution and the universal conventions on the rights of national minorities. In parallel, through legislation and in day-to-day life, the Kyiv regime introduced Nazi practice and theory.”
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“In order to halt the war that was unleashed in the east of Ukraine as a result of the coup, multilateral efforts undertaken for the advancement of a peaceful settlement were enshrined in resolution 2202 (2015), with which the Security Council unanimously approved the Minsk agreements. These agreements were trampled upon by Kyiv and its western handlers, who themselves recently, cynically, and even with pride, recognized that they never intended to implement them. They simply wanted to gain time to funnel weapons into Ukraine for use against Russia. They therefore publicly proclaimed that they violated a multilateral obligation of all members of the United Nations enshrined in the Charter, requiring that all Members comply with the resolutions of Security Council.”
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“As a result of this, the putschists unleashed a war against them. Similarly, Pristina cannot claim to represent the interests of Kosovar Serbs, who were promised autonomy by the European Union, just like Berlin and Paris promised special status for Donbas. The results of these promises are well known. The Secretary-General eloquently stated this during the second Summit for Democracy on 29 March: “Democracy flows from the United Nations Charter. “Its opening invocation of “We the Peoples” reflects the fundamental source of legitimate authority: the consent of the governed.” The key word in this context is “consent”.”
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“In order to abandon double standards, we call for all to adhere to consensual agreements that were agreed upon through the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States (General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV), annex) of 1970, which is still in force and which explicitly proclaims the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States and “the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples ... possessed of [] governments representing the whole people belonging to the territory …”. Any objective observer can clearly see that the Nazi Kyiv regime can in no way be regarded as representing the “whole people belonging to the territory” who refused to accept the results of the brutal coup in February 2014.”
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“Not only do the Anglo-Saxons — who are confidently leading the West — justify these criminal misadventures, but they also tout their policy of advancing democracy. However, this is again done in accordance with their rules: they will recognize the independence of Kosovo without a referendum, but they will not recognize Crimea, despite the fact that there was a referendum there, and they will not touch the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands, because, as a British Foreign Secretary recently — and cleverly — claimed, there was an organized referendum there. This is laughable.”
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“After the Second World War, there were dozens of criminal military ventures by Washington, without any attempt to secure multilateral legitimacy. The shameful invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition in 2003 was a violation of the United Nations Charter, as was the aggression against Libya in 2011. The result was the destruction of Statehood, hundreds of thousands of dead and rampant terrorism. Another blatant violation of the United Nations Charter was the United States intervention in the affairs of former States of the Soviet Union. Colour revolutions were organized in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. There was a brutal coup in Kyiv in 2014. In addition, there were also attempts to forcibly seize power in Belarus in 2020.”
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“Joe Biden was a senator at the time, and he said with pride on camera that he personally called for the bombing of Belgrade and the destroying of all bridges on the Drina River. And recently the United States Ambassador to Belgrade, through media outlets, called on the Serbs to turn the page and stop taking offence. The United States has a lot of experience with that. Japan has long been shamefully silent about who bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. School textbooks do not say a word about that. As we know, at the recent Group of Seven meeting, the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Blinken, lamented with great pathos the suffering of the victims of the bombings, but failed to mention those who organized them. These are the “rules”. And no one dares contradict them.”
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“There, it is explicitly and unambiguously stated in black and white that no State should strengthen its security at the expense of the security of other States, and no State, group of States or organization can be given primary responsibility for maintaining peace in the OSCE area or consider any part of the OSCE area as its sphere of influence. NATO ignored those commitments made by the Presidents and Prime Ministers of its member States and did the opposite, proclaiming its right to take any arbitrary action. An egregious example is the unlawful bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, including the use of depleted uranium, which subsequently caused a surge in cancer among Serbian citizens and NATO troops alike.”
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“As the then United States Secretary of State Jim Baker reported to President George Bush senior, the main threat to NATO is the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I would add that currently the United Nations and the requirements contained in its Charter also pose a threat to Washington’s global ambitions. Russia has been painstakingly trying to reach mutually beneficial multilateral agreements based on the principle of the indivisibility of security, which was solemnly proclaimed at the highest level in the outcome documents of the OSCE Summits of 1999 and 2010.”
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“It is no secret that the purpose of the so-called Indo-Pacific strategy is to contain the People’s Republic of China and isolate Russia. That is how Western colleagues view effective multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region. After the collapse of the Warsaw Treaty Organization and the departure of the Soviet Union from the political scene, hope emerged for the advancement of the principles of genuine multilateralism, without any dividing lines, in the Euro-Atlantic space. But instead of unleashing the potential of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on an equal, collective basis, Western countries not only preserved NATO, but — contrary to their solemn pledges — embarked on a brazen takeover of adjacent territories, including territories where vital Russian interests always existed and will continue to exist.”
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“Therefore, NATO, which is, of course, a defensive alliance, is now moving its line of defence to the Western shores of the Pacific Ocean. Block-based approaches undermine ASEAN- focused mindsets and are manifested in the creation of the military alliance among Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States — AUKUS — which is trying to drag into its ranks Tokyo, Seoul and a number of ASEAN countries. Under the aegis of the United States, mechanisms for intervention in maritime security issues have been established to uphold the unilateral interests of the West in the South China Sea. Mr. Borrell Fontelles, who I have already quoted today, mentioned the promise yesterday to send EU naval forces to that region.”
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“That system has allowed for the establishment of consensual approaches that are acceptable for both the 10 ASEAN member States and their partners in dialogue, including Russia, China, the United States, India, Japan, Australia and the Republic of Korea, ensuring a genuinely inclusive multilateralism. With its so-called Indo-Pacific strategy, Washington has embraced a policy of destroying that established consensus-based architecture. At its summit in Madrid last year, NATO, which had always tried to convince everyone of its peaceful disposition and the exclusively defensive nature of its military programmes, spoke about global responsibility and the indivisibility of security in the Euro-Atlantic and the so-called Indo-Pacific region.”
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“That policy, however, was confronted with the determination of countries in the region to strengthen their own multilateral structures, first and foremost, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and to defend their legitimate right to assert themselves as a pillar of a multipolar world. Russia fully supports those legitimate aspirations. The United States and its allies have now devoted considerable effort to undermining multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region, where the successful open system of cooperation on economic matters and security has been developing for decades around the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).”
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“I will also quote the NATO and European Union (EU) joint declaration of 10 January, which states, “we” — the united West — “will further mobilize the combined set of instruments at our disposal, be they political, economic or" — and I stress this — “military, to pursue our common objectives to the benefit of our one billion citizens.” The collective West has set out to reshape multilateralism at the regional level for the advancement of its interests. Recently, the United States called for the Monroe Doctrine to be revived and demanded that Latin American countries limit their ties with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.”
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“First, a narrow group of the select few make decisions behind closed doors, and then they present these arrangements as a position of the international community. Let us call a spade a spade. Nobody allowed the Western minority to speak on behalf of all humankind. We must be civil and respect all members of the international community. By imposing a rules- based order, its sponsors arrogantly reject the key principle of the Charter of the United Nations, namely, the sovereign equality of States. The quintessence of the complex of exceptionalism was the lordly statement of Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, that Europe is a garden and most of the rest of the world is a jungle.”
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“In order to ideologically justify the strategy of undermining of multilateralism, they introduced theme of the unity of democracies in countering autocracies. In addition to the so-called summits for democracy, the composition of which is determined by a self-proclaimed hegemon, other clubs for the chosen are being created in circumvention of the United Nations — the Summit for Democracy, the Alliance for Multilateralism, the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, the Media Freedom Coalition, the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace — all those and other exclusive projects are designed to undermine negotiations on relevant topics under the aegis of the United Nations, to impose non-consensual concepts and solutions that benefit the West.”
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“In a desperate attempt to assert its supremacy by punishing those who disobey it, the United States has taken the path of destroying globalization, which it has extolled for years as the ultimate good of humankind, maintaining the multilateral world economic system. Washington and its Western subordinates have applied those rules every time they needed to justify illegitimate measures taken against those who based their policies on international law and refused to align themselves with the self-interest of the golden billion. Those who do not agree are blacklisted according to the principle of “those who are not with us are against us”. Western colleagues have long found it inconvenient to reach agreement in universal forums, such as the United Nations.”
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“They have been invented and applied with the goal of countering the natural processes of establishing new independent development centres, which is the objective manifestation of multilateralism. There have been attempts to deter them with illegitimate unilateral measures, including cutting off access to modern technologies and financial services, removal from supply chains, the confiscation of property, the destruction of competitors’ critical infrastructure and the manipulation of universally agreed norms and procedures. As a result, global trade has become fragmented, market mechanisms have collapsed, the World Trade Organization has become paralysed and now the International Monetary Fund has clearly and completely been transformed into a tool for achieving the goals of the United States and its allies, including their military goals.”
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“For nearly 80 years of its existence, the United Nations has been fulfilling its most important mission mandated by the founding fathers. For several decades, the basic understanding among the five permanent members of the Security Council on the supremacy of the purposes and principles of the Charter guaranteed global security, and thereby created the conditions for truly multilateral cooperation governed by universally recognized norms international law. The United Nations-centred system is currently experiencing a deep crisis, the root cause of which is the desire on the part of some of its members to replace international law and the Charter of the United Nations with a certain rules-based order. No one has seen those rules; they have not been the subject of transparent international negotiations.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. It is symbolic that we are holding our meeting on the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy, which was inscribed as an important date on the calendar via General Assembly resolution 73/127, adopted on 12 December 2018. In two weeks’ time, we will celebrate the seventy-eighth anniversary of victory in the Second World War. The defeat of Nazi Germany, a decisive contribution to which my country contributed decisively, along with the allies, allowed us to lay the foundation for the post-war international order. Its legal basis was the Charter the United Nations, and our Organization itself, embodying true multilateralism, took on a central, coordinating role in world politics.”
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“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2023/244, which contains the text of a letter dated 3 April 2023 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, transmitting a concept note on the item under consideration. I warmly welcome the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, to whom I now give the floor.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kuwait, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Viet Nam to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I also invite His Excellency Mr. Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting.”
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