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⚡️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for a documentary titled "The UN from the 20th to the 21st Century" (Moscow, September 25, 2024)

Key points:

• Less than a year after the victorious powers established the UN based on the noble principles formulated in its charter, it became clear that the West, acting contrary to these principles, intended to launch a war against the Soviet Union, and not merely a cold war but an all-out war. These plans hatched by the then "Anglo-Saxons" [nations of the Anglosphere led by the US & UK] have long become public knowledge.

• Once NATO was created, the Soviet Union circulated a large document which demonstrated the detrimental effect of that and the danger of building walls between the East and the West, especially in Europe, and called for respecting the #UNCharter and for working towards this. Our call was not heeded.

✊ However, we kept fighting for justice and the implementation of the principle of sovereign equality of nations. Decolonisation was a bright stage and a major embodiment of that principle. The Soviet Union was the main initiator of the 1960 Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Following its adoption, the number of UN states increased by 80-90 members.

• They tell us that the main goal today is to ensure the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It is a misleading interpretation of the UN Charter, where the right of nations to self-determination is put before territorial integrity.

• Even before demanding respect for territorial integrity, the UN Charter demands respect for human rights without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion <…> Now that Zelensky’s Nazi regime, which the West nurtured, has banned both the language and religious rights of a large number of its own population, the West has put away the banners it was waving for decades.

❗️The top priority now is to ensure the achievement of the initial goals and principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and as a whole, rather than selectively or occasionally.

• The reform of the UN Security Council is not a one-off event. It’s a process which has been ongoing since the time the United Nations came into being <...> Nevertheless, it relies on principles that must be preserved at all costs. The main principle is that the Security Council reform should be based on a broad-based agreement among states. It does not say “consensus,” but it does state “broad-based agreement among states.”

🌍 🇮🇳🇧🇷 We have invariably supported the legitimate aspirations of India and Brazil to secure permanent seats in the Security Council. However, African aspirations must be met as well. Africa has common collective positions, which we respect. And we would have like that.

• Our position implies providing additional seats for Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We are open to some of these seats being permanent, but we need to achieve general agreement before we can move forward. It is a complicated process. I don’t see any chance for bringing this process to a swift and expedited completion any time soon.

• Since the UN was created, there has never been a time, a region, or a situation that involved the United States in one way or another, where the country would actually respect that principle. Every time, everywhere they acted as a hegemon, or like a "bull in a china shop".

• When they wanted to punish Russia, the West abandoned all the principles which it was feeding to us and which it declared sacred. The same is happening to the principles of the UN Charter. The West is trampling and destroying them without a moment’s hesitation.

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#UNGA79 #UNCharterIsOurRules

📰 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine (May 5, 2023)

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Key talking points:

• The UN-centric system is undergoing a deep crisis, the root cause of which was brought on by the decision of certain UN members to replace international law and the UN Charter with some “rules-based international order”. <...> Its masterminds haughtily reject the key principle underlying the UN Charter, which is the sovereign equality of states.

• Since World War II, Washington has pulled off dozens of reckless criminal military operations without even trying to secure multilateral legitimacy. Why bother when your “rules” are unbeknownst to everyone.

• Everyone is aware of it, even though not everyone is talking about it openly: the real issue is not about Ukraine, but rather about the future of international relations. Will they be forged on a sustainable consensus, one based on the balance of interests? Or will they be reduced to an aggressive and explosive advancement of hegemony? The Ukraine issue cannot be considered outside its geopolitical context.

• There should be no double standards. Multilateralism and democracy should enjoy respect both within the member countries and in their relations with one another.

• At this juncture, genuine multilateralism requires that the UN adapt to objective developments in the process of forming a multipolar architecture of international relations. It is imperative to expedite Security Council reform by expanding the representation of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

• It is our common duty to preserve the United Nations as the hard-won epitome of multilateralism and coordination of international politics. The key to success lies in working together, renouncing claims on exceptionalism and – I reiterate – showing respect for the sovereign equality of states. This is what we all signed up for when we ratified the UN Charter.

#UNCharterIsOurRules

#Day2 highlights! 📹

High-Level Week of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly is on-going!

Russian delegation helmed by FM Sergey Lavrov is keeping busy 👇

• Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the UNSC meeting on Ukraine
• Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nation Ministerial
• Talks with 🇺🇳 Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres
• BRICS Ministerial
• Talks with FMs of 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇧🇭 Bahrain, 🇵🇦 Panama, 🇲🇦 Morocco
• Talks with PM of 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines & VP of 🇸🇸 South Sudan.
• Meeting with Secretary of State of the 🇻🇦 Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin
• Meeting with Arab League (LAS) Contact Group on the Ukrainian Crisis

#UNCharterIsOurRules #UNGA77

More to come!

🎙 Statement of the Group of Friends in Defence of the UN Charter:

☝️ Ensuring compliance with and strict adherence to both the letter and spirit of the UN Charter is fundamental for ensuring the realization of the three pillars of our Organization, as well as for advancing towards the establishment of a more peaceful and prosperous world and of a truly just and equitable world order.

We express our serious concern at the current and growing threats against the UN Charter. We refer, among others, to the growing resort to unilateralism; to the attacks against multilateralism; to the claiming of non-existent exceptionalisms; to the attempts to ignore and even substitute the purposes and principles contained in the UN Charter with a new set of so-called “rules” that have never been discussed in an inclusive or transparent manner.

#UNCharterIsOurRules

🇷🇺🇺🇳 On September 25, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov delivered an address at the #UNGA76 General Debate.

👉 #UNCharterIsOurRules - this hashtag was proposed by the Minister in support of the role of the UN in international affairs.

🎦 The most important points - in our video

💬 FM Sergey Lavrov: Recently we have been witnessing persistent attempts to diminish the UN’s role in resolving the key problems of today, to sideline it or to transform it into a malleable tool promoting someone’s selfish interests. Such attempts are clearly visible in the so-called “rules-based order” concept that the West is persistently introducing into political discourse as opposed to the international law.

By shifting the discussion on key issues to formats that suit it best, the West wants to exclude from the global decision-making process those who have their own, different points of view.

#UNCharterIsOurRules

💬 Sergey #Lavrov: Imposing a "rules-based order" to replace international law is fraught with relapse into bloc politics.

#НашиПравилаУставООН
#UNCharterIsOurRules
#CharteONUEstNosLois
#CartaONUesNstrReglas
#ميثاق_الأمم_المتحدة_هو_قواعدنا
#联合国宪章是我们的主张

💬 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: We are different, but it shouldn't prevent us from working to the benefit of our peoples & humanity.

❗️ I suggest a hashtag:
#НашиПравилаУставООН
#UNCharterIsOurRules
#CharteONUEstNosLois
#CartaONUesNstrReglas
#ميثاق_الأم_المتحدة_هو_قواعدنا
#联合国宪章是我们的主张