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(This is the only transcript I have right now, but it’s readable. I just read it. It’s actually very easy to read columns so thin. I will update this when Russia uploads the official English version on the official English site.)
I now give the floor to his Excellency
Sergey lavrov
Minister for foreign affairs of the
Russian Federation
and Gentlemen We Are meeting at a
difficulty dramatic moment the crisis
are growing and the situation in the
area of International Security is
deteriorating rapidly instead of having
an honest dialogue and looking for
dialogue looking for compromises what
we’re dealing with is disinformation
course course stagings and provocations
the Western line here undermines the
trust in international institutions as
bodies where interest are greed it also
undermines trust in international law as
a guarantee of fairness and protecting
the weak against the strong the negative
Tendencies we’re witnessing within the
U.N in a concentrated fashion too at the
U.N which rose from the rubble of German
fascism and Japanese militarism and was
created to develop friendly religions
amongst its members and to prevent
conflict among them
the future of the world order is being
decided today and it is clear to any
impartial objective the question is
whether or not this is going to be the
kind of order with one hegemon at the
head of IT making everyone else living
uh following
um his notorious
rules of benefit to that hegemon only or
are we going to have a democratic Fair
world without blackmail and without uh
setting fear Into The Unwanted without
ne0-nazism and neocolonialism we made a
firm choice for the latter and together
with partners and like-minded people are
calling upon everyone to work for the
for its implementation what is receding
into the past is a unipolar model of
world development which serves the
interests of the one golden billion and
it’s a over consumption level came from
the resources of Asia Africa and Latin
America today we’re witnessing sovereign
states ready to defend their national
interests and this results in the
creation of an equal socially oriented
and sustainable multi-polar architecture
but the objective geopolitical processes
are being seen by Washington and fully
subjugated to it
um the elites of Western countries are
considered by them as a threat to their
dominating position the United States
and allies want to stop the march of
History so at some point in the past
I’m declaring that they were victorious
in the Cold War Washington
erected themselves into an almost Envoy
of God on on on on on Earth
without any obligations but only the
sacred right to act with impunity
wherever and wherever they want and this
can be done anywhere against any state
especially if they’re somehow displeased
their
self-proclaimed masters of the world and
we do recall the wars of aggressions
very far from American Shores and
Yugoslavia and Iraq and Nivea which
claimed many hundreds thousands of
peaceful lives
were the truly legitimate interests of
the West were impacted in any one of
those countries was English banned or
any other language of NATO countries
banned their mass media culture
were the Anglo-Saxon declared to be
subhuman or heavy Weaponry was used
against them so what is the outcome of
the adventurism of the United States in
the Middle East has a human rights
situation improved is a rule of law
better this socio-economic situation may
perhaps stabilized or a people’s
livelihood is better name a country
where Washington interfered by force and
where as a result of that life improved
trying to restore a one polar model
under the slogan of a rules-based order
West is introducing dividing lines
everywhere along the lines of a
confrontation between blocks you are
either with us or against us there is no
third option for possible there are no
compromises
continuing with the course to spread
NATO to the East and bringing the
military infrastructure of NATO to the
borders of Russia the United States and
now have the goal of subjugating the
Asian areas and the June Summit of NATO
in Madrid the self-proclaimed defensive
Alliance
declared the indivisible security of
Euro Atlantic and India and Pacific and
under the slogan of India Pacific
strategies closed formats have been
created and they undermine
one has been built on the asean for
decades namely an open and inclusive
Regional architecture and in addition to
that they’re playing with fire around
Taiwan
um on top of that they’re promising
Military Support to Taiwan clearly the
notorious Monroe Doctrine is becoming
Global in scope Washington is trying to
turn the entire world and its own into
its own backyard and the way of doing
this is through unlawful unilateral
sanctions which have been for many years
used in violation of the charter and
used as a tool of political blackmail
this cynicism here is obvious because
these restrictions hit civilians they
prevent them from getting access to
basic Goods including medication
vaccines and food an egregious example
we have here is the American blockade of
Cuba more than 60 years old the general
assembly has been for a long time and is
consistently demanding that be
immediately lifted and this is being
done by the absolute majority of voices
the Secretary General whose Duty include
helping Implement General Assembly
decisions must of course pay special
attention to this issue the Secretary
General has a special role also in
mobilizing efforts to overcome food and
energy crises which resulted in the wake
of an out of control money emission in
the United States and the European Union
during the pandemic and as a result of
an irresponsible unprofessional acts by
the European Union in the hydrocarbon
fuel markets despite Common Sense
Washington Brussels compounded situation
when they announced economic war against
Russia as a result there is a growing
price on
food stops fertilizers oil and gas we
welcome the efforts made by the
Secretary General when they helped
arrive at this time Istanbul agreements
on the 24th of June but they need to be
implemented but so far the ships with
the Ukrainian grain go somewhere but not
into the poorest countries on the one
hand on the other hand the impediments
by U.S and EU the financial logistical
impediments against our grain and
fertilizers have not been lifted
furthermore for several weeks we have
been saying that about 300 000 tons of
fertilizer are being held up in European
ports and we have been proposing that
they be forwarded free of charge to the
country to the needy countries in Africa
but the European Union is not heeding
this the official rosophobia in the west
is unprecedented now the scope is
grotesque they’re not shying away from
declaring the intent to inflict the
military
defeat on our country but also to
destroy and Fracture Russia in other
words what they want to do is to remove
from the global map a geopolitical
entity which has become all too
independent so how have Russia in the
recent decades been infringing on the
interests of our opponents is it that we
cannot be forgiven
for making possible the military and
strategic day taunt in 1980s and 1990s
because of my country’s position or is
it that we voluntarily dissolve the
Warsaw Treaty Organization and thus
removed the reason for NATO’s being is
it that we supported the reunification
of Germany without any preconditions and
against the position of London in Paris
that we withdrew our military from
Europe Asia from Latin America that we
recognize the independence of former
Soviet republics that we believed the
promises of Western leaders not to
expand not by an inch of NATO in the
East but when it started
agreed to basically legitimize it
through signing a founding act between
Russia and NATO did we infringe on the
interest of the West when we warned them
there was unacceptable to bring closer a
threatening military infrastructure
bring it closer to our borders the
arrogance of the wet over the Western
American exclusivity have become
particularly destructive after the end
of the Cold War already in 1991
the deputy chief of Pentagon Paul
wolfowitz in his conversation with the
NATO Commando Europe Wesley Clark stated
openly that I quote
after the end of the Cold War we can use
our military without any fear of
reprisal we have five maybe 10 years so
as to clean out the surrogate Soviet
regimes such as Iraq and Syria
until such time as there is a new
superpower who can challenge us end of
quote
and I am convinced that at some point in
someone’s Memoirs we will find out how
the American strategy was being
developed as regards Ukraine but even so
Washington’s plans in this regard are
obvious in any event it is possible they
are not being forgiven that the request
of the United States and European Union
we supported the agreement of the
Ukrainian president at the time Mr
Yanukovych his agreement with the forces
of opposition to resolve crisis in
February 2014. these agreements were
guaranteed by Germany Poland and France
but the next morning they were Trampled
Under food by the leaders of the bloody
coup who thus humiliated the European
mediators the West simply Shrugged and
watched in silence uh put members of the
coup started bombing the Eastern of
Ukraine where people refused to accept
the results of the coup watch to the
organizers made their
um in made into the rank of national
heroes the accomplices of Nazis
um are we were we expected to acquiesce
in the key of intent to ban the Russian
language education our mass media and
culture with their insistence on chasing
Russians out of Crimea on Waging War
against donbass whose citizens were
proclaimed by the then authorities and
now authorities in Kiev proclaimed to be
not people by specimens
is it that we violated the interest of
the West because we played a role in
stopping the
forceful actions by the key of neo-nazis
in the Eastern of in the east of Ukraine
and then demanded that the Minsk package
of measures be implemented something
that was unanimously approved by the
security Council but in late load by
Kiev with the participation of usne EU
on for many years we have been proposing
to have Security in Europe with the
basis on equal and indivisible security
enshrined at the highest level in osc
documents according to this principle no
one is to strengthen their own security
at the expense of others and the very
last proposal to make these agreements
legally binding something that we
introduced in December 2021 and the
reaction was an arrogant rejection of
that the incapacity of Western countries
to negotiate and the continued War by
the Kiev regime against their own people
left out with no choice but to recognize
the dependence of the Donetsk and the
lugan’s people’s republics and start a
special military operation to protect
the Russian and other people on donbass
and so as to remove the threats against
our security which NATO had been
consistently creating in Ukraine at our
borders the operation is conducted in
pursuance of agreements on friendship
cooperation Mutual assistance between us
and that Republic and on the basis of
article 51 of the U.N Charter I’m
convinced that any sovereign
self-respecting state would do the same
in our state a state which understands
its responsibility to his own people
the West is now throwing a fit
because of the referenda which are being
conducted in the Logan and zapparache
oblast but people living there are
basically only reacting to what was said
to them by the head of the key of regime
Mr zielinski in August 2021 at the time
he said anyone who feels themselves to
be Russian for the benefit of their
children and grandchildren to get out
and to go to Russia and that’s what the
inhabitants of those regions are doing
um the taking they are land with them
where their ancestors had been living
for hundreds of years any unbiased
Observer I can see very clearly the
Anglo-Saxons who fully subjugated Europe
for them Ukraine is just an expandable
material as they are fighting against
Russia NATO declared that our country is
an immediate thread to on their way to
Total Domination and a long-term threat
will be the PRC at the same time
Collective West headed by Washington is
sending frightening signals to other
countries saying anyone who disobeys can
be next
one of the consequences of the Crusade
by the West against the objectionables
is the grow growing decline of
multilateral Institutions they have been
turned by the United States and allies
into tools to implement their own
selfish interests this is something that
is being pursued in the U.N Human Rights
Council UNESCO and other multilateral
institutions the organizational
prohibition of chemical weapons has
basically been privatized Fierce
attempts are being made to prevent
creating within the convection on
biological and toxin weapons over
mechanisms which would ensure
transparency for hundreds military
biological programs of the Pentagon has
around the world including on the
perimeter of our country and throughout
Eurasia and these programs are far from
harmless this is irrefutable according
to the fact that we came to in Ukraine
there is an assertive line to privatize
the U.S Secretariat to introducing it
into its work at neoliberal narrative
which ignores the cultural and
civilizational multifaceted nature of
the world we can call upon making sure
that we follow the charter and ensure a
fair geographical representation of
member states making sure that there is
no one single country dominant in the
Secretariat an impossible situation was
created by Washington having to do with
the obligation of the host country of a
headquarters agreement to ensure that
normal conditions for the participation
of all member states in U.N work the
obligations under this host country
agreement are also placed on the
Secretary General and inactivity is
unacceptable we’re also concerned by the
efforts made by countries who are
undermining the prerogatives of Security
Council and of course the council in U.N
have to be Allied to contemporary
realities we see the prospect of making
the security Council more democratic
exclusively exclusively through
broadening the representation of the
countries from Africa Asia and Latin
America we know to India and Brazil in
particular as key International actors
and worthy candidates for permanent
membership within the council whilst at
the same time unilaterally and
mandatorily raising the profile of
Africa it is very important today to
make sure that all member states
unequivocally without reservations
reaffirm their commitment to the
purposes and principles of the charter
as a first and necessary step to restore
Collective responsibility for the fate
of humankind and that was the reason why
in July 2021 a group of friends to
support the charter was created and
co-sponsor of the group was Russia and
it now counts to 20 countries
the goal here is to make sure that there
is stricter abiding to with the
universal Norms of international law to
counter balance unilateral approaches
and where you call call upon everyone to
join in and in this context a great
potential is possessed by such
organizations as the non-aligned
movement breaks SEO and asean the
Western colleagues are very aggressive
at imposing their understanding of
democracy as a way of organizing uh life
to all countries categorically do not
want to be guided by Democratic Norms in
international Affairs and very good
example the situation in Ukraine again
it would seem to be that Russia
Justified its position has been
justifying it for years and the rest
said they disagree okay well let other
members of the International Community
decide for themselves what their
position would be on the side of one on
the side of others or neutral that’s
what happens in democracies when
politicians opposing each other defend
their viewpoints and try to
convey to others by the United States
and allies do not give the freedom of
choice to anyone they threaten to twist
the arms of anyone who dares think for
themselves and demand by threats that
countries join in with anti-russian
sanctions that doesn’t work very well
but it is very clear that these acts by
United States and its satellites is not
democracy it’s pure unadulterated
dictatorship or an attempt to impose it
we’re left with a strong impression that
the Washington and subjugated Europe are
trying to keep their disappearing
hegemony using
prohibited means diplomacy constantly is
being replaced by illegal sanctions
against competitors in economic sports
information area culture and generally
in contacts with people let’s uh turn to
the to the problem with visas for
delegates for international meetings in
New York Geneva Vienna and Paris they’re
also we see the desire to remove
competition make sure that alternative
viewpoints do not come into multilateral
discussions
I am convinced that we need to protect
the U.N and scrape everything that
confrontational and superficial from
there and give it back its reputation
and an honest platform to a siege for
balance for all member states and this
is the approach that we’re guided up
when we put forward our national
initiatives it is of principal
importance to make sure that we have a
comprehensive comprehensive ban on the
deployment of weapons in space and this
is a reason for the russia-china draft
International treaty considered by the
conference on disarmament
um it’s particularly important to
protect our cyberspace within the
open-ended working group of the general
assemblies assembly on the agreements on
how to protect International Security
and to use a special committee for
Universal convention on how to counter
the use of ICT for criminal purposes we
continue support supporting office
encounter terrorism and neither
anti-terrorist entities within the U.N
and we go to continue
um develop relationships between the
uncsto a European Eurasian economic
Union CIS
so is to pull our efforts in a greater
Eurasia
we call for a an enhanced work on
overcoming Regional conflicts we think
that the priority here is to overcome
the impasse in creating an independent
Palestinian State restoring
um which was
restoring the state of Iraq and Libya
destroyed by NATO aggression neutralize
the threats to Syria
um having a sustainable process of
national
um
conciliation in Yemen overcoming the
heavy burden of NATO presence in
Afghanistan and we are working on
restoring the original jcpoa on Iran a
nuclear program ensuring the
comprehensive settlement on the Korean
Peninsula many complex situations in
Africa require that we reject the
temptation to play a zero-sum game then
con then that outside players
consolidate
on the around the initiatives by the air
for um African Union we are concerned by
the situation and cost of a Bosnia
Herzegovina where the United States and
EU are stubbornly leading to the
destruction of the international legal
basis uh as we currently have it in
resolution 12 to 44 and the date and
peaceful agreement
Madam president at times unlike these
it’s natural to seek wisdom from our
predecessors so in the pithy expression
of the former Secretary General Doug
hamashold who remembered the horrors of
world war he said and I quote the U.N
wasn’t created to take mankind to
Paradise but rather to save Humanity
from Hell these are very topical words
they call upon us to understand our
individual Collective responsibility for
creating conditions for a peaceful and
harmonious development for our future
generation generations and everyone need
to show political will for that when
we’re ready for such honest work and we
are convinced that the stability of the
world order can be ensured is
exclusively through returning to the
origins of the U.N diplomacy basing
ourselves on the key principle of true
democracy the respect for The Sovereign
equality of States I thank you
I thank the minister for foreign affairs
of the Russian Federation
