🇷🇺🇺🇸 #RussiaUS talks in Riyadh commence

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Press release on Russia-US consultations (February 18, 2025)

⚡️ In accordance with the agreement between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump to step up contacts to discuss international issues and bilateral agenda, on February 18, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov held talks in Riyadh with a US delegation represented by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, and US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.

The participants discussed a broad range of issues, including prospects for normalising bilateral relations. The sides agreed to appoint respective ambassadors as soon as possible, and to start consultations at the level of deputy foreign ministers to remove restrictions on activities of the diplomatic missions of the two countries.

The sides agreed to establish a dialogue to identify ways to resume cooperation in the economy, including energy, outer space exploration, and other areas of mutual interest.

The sides exchanged views on the situation surrounding Ukraine and reiterated their mutual commitment to settle the conflict.

❗️ The Russian side emphasised the importance of eliminating the root causes of the conflict, creating proper conditions for achieving a lasting and enduring peace, and ensuring security and legitimate interests of all countries in the region. An agreement was reached to continue joint work in this area through special envoys to be appointed in the near future.

The Sides agreed to resume communication channels to discuss other international issues, being mindful of Russia and the United States’ special responsibility in matters of peace and security as nuclear powers and permanent members of the UN Security Council. The interest in continuing joint work to prepare the meeting between the Russian and American presidents was confirmed.

During their stay in Riyadh, Sergey Lavrov and Yury Ushakov were received by Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud. They expressed gratitude for the excellent organisation of #RussiaUS talks. The participants discussed matters related to implementing the agreements on comprehensive expansion of bilateral relations reached by President Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Статья Посла России в Ливане А.Н.Рудакова «Специальная военная операция: три года борьбы за справедливость», опубликованная в газете «Ан-Нахар» (24 февраля 2025 г.)

Основные тезисы:

▫️«Незалежная» и руководящая ею верхушка давно потеряли свою политическую субъектность и превратились в геостратегический инструмент нанесения максимального военного и экономического ущерба России, выхолащивания абсолютно всего русского.

▫️Россия не могла молчаливо и опустив руки терпеть такие провокационные действия.

▫️Обеспечение государственной целостности, национальной безопасности и защита Русского мира – наше суверенное и беспрекословное право.

▫️Однако украинский «инвестпроект» оказался провальным и слишком «мутным». Здравомыслящие элиты в недружественных странах все более отчетливо осознают бесперспективность финансовых вливаний в данном направлении, их полную неокупаемость.

▫️Рецепт решения прост, и мы намерены ему следовать: добиваться окончательного и устойчивого завершения конфликта, а не его заморозки.


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مقال سعادة سفير روسيا الاتحادية في لبنان ألكسندر روداكوف في جريدة النهار.

العملية العسكرية الخاصّة: ثلاث سنوات من النضال من أجل العدالة.

النقاط الرئيسية:

▫️أوكرانيا ومن يقودوها من كبار المسؤولين، فقدوا ذاتيتهم السياسية منذ فترة طويلة وتحولوا إلى أداة جيوستراتيجية لإلحاق أقصى قدر من الضرر العسكري والاقتصادي بروسيا، وإلغاء كل شيء روسي على الإطلاق.

▫️ولا يمكن لروسيا أن تتسامح مع مثل هذه الأعمال الاستفزازية بصمت وهدوء.

▫️إن ضمان سلامة الدولة والأمن الوطني وحماية العالم الروسي هو حقنا السيادي الذي لا يقبل الشك.

▫️إن "مشروع الاستثمار" الأوكراني تحول إلى مشروع فاشل و"غامض" للغاية. فالنخب العاقلة في البلدان غير الصديقة أصبحت تدرك بشكل متزايد عدم جدوى الاستثمارات المالية في هذا الاتجاه وعدم وجود عائد منها على الإطلاق.

▫️الحلّ بسيط، ونحن نعتزم اتباعه: التوصّل إلى حلّ نهائي ومستدام للصراع، وليس تجميده.

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following visit to Qatar (Doha, February 26, 2025)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: The visit to Qatar during which I held meetings with Emir of the State of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has concluded.

Our good relations go back a while. Today, we reaffirmed our commitment to expanding them comprehensively based on agreements reached by President Vladimir Putin and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during earlier contacts. <...>

We agreed to step up our activities across all areas, primarily, trade and economy, as well as energy as part of the Doha-based Gas Exporting Countries Forum, and interaction between the Qatar Investment Authority and the Russian Direct Investment Fund.

Humanitarian exchanges, promotion of tourism, and other cultural events are also part of our plans.

We discussed the Middle Eastern affairs at length, primarily, in light of the process that has been unfolding in Syria after the change of power. We are interested in keeping this process under control and making sure it does not spark civil strife, since the risk is still there.

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We would like all external players, including the Arabs, the West, China, Russia, and Iran, to help normalise the situation in Syria. We are aware that the Syrian leadership (our Qatari partners confirmed this) is interested in seeing assistance to the reforms and normalisation processes in the country come in an even and balanced manner, where no one is trying to subordinate these processes to their geopolitical goals. Syria no longer wants to be a place for the external players to sort out their geopolitical differences.

We placed great emphasis on yet another issue which is the Palestinian-Israeli settlement and Israel-Lebanon relations.

We are concerned that the Israeli army takes more steps every day that are not provided for in the agreements with Hamas and Lebanon. These steps create situations on the ground that are at odds with the existing agreements and UN Security Council resolutions on Palestinian affairs and the Lebanese issue.

☝️ In this regard, Qatar and the Russian Federation share the importance of re-orienting the process towards respecting the principles approved by the UN Security Council. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a key issue. Any attempts to tank these Security Council resolutions and to replace the establishment of a Palestinian state with “resettling Palestinians across the region” will only set a time bomb into motion, as has happened multiple times over the many decades of ignoring the demands for a two-state solution.

From the Q&A session:

• We once again expressed our gratitude and appreciation to Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, for the discreet, pragmatic efforts undertaken by Qatar to facilitate the resolution of humanitarian issues in relations between Russia and Ukraine. Primarily, these concern the reunification of children with their families.

• Some suggest an idea of preserving the “line of contact.” First, this will not happen. Russia has a constitution based on the will of the people. Secondly, whatever is left of Ukraine should also be cleared of racist laws. Some of the people living there are more comfortable speaking Russian, and they want to preserve the traditions of their ancestors brought up in Russian culture.

• Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently stated that the issue of frozen Russian assets must be considered in conjunction with the retaliatory measures adopted by the Russian Federation affecting American companies’ interests. This is a sound reflection on the necessity of abandoning thieving methods and not expecting them to go unanswered.

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ضمن فعاليات "يوم المدافع الوطني" الروسي، قام سفير روسيا الإتحادية في بيروت ألكسندر روداكوف بزيارة تفقدية الى الجنوب، حيث جال الوفد على منطقة الليطاني، الذي أنشأه الجيش الروسي عبر نهر الليطاني ابان حرب تموز ٢٠٠٦، كعربون تعاون وصداقة مع الشعب اللبناني الشقيق والدولة الصديق.

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🎙 Remarks by Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vassily Nebenzia prior to the UNGA Vote on a Draft Resolution on the 80th Anniversary of the end of #WWII

📍 New York, March 4, 2025

💬 Vassily Nebenzia: On behalf of the group of main cosponsors – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and my country, Russia – I have the honor to present the draft resolution A/79/L.51, entitled “Eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War”.

This year we will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazism, fascism and Japanese militarism. In 1945, the ideals of goodness, justice and humanity triumphed over the ugliest manifestations of the ideology of racial superiority. Our world, the United Nations, its Charter, which is the bedrock for contemporary international law – all these are the outcomes of that Victory.

🕯 This Victory came at a high price. Thus, the peoples of the Soviet Union sacrificed 27 million people, China – 35 million, the United States – about half a million people; Serbia organized the largest anti-fascist resistance and partisan movement in Europe.

There were millions of losses among other members of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in Europe but also in Latin America and Asia. There were hostilities on the African continent as well. Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of African soldiers were sent to the European front. When they returned home, those heroes played an important role in launching the decolonization process.

☝️ The Victory was only possible owing to the unprecedented unity of the Powers and their peoples in the face of absolute evil. It was not by chance that the members of the anti-Hitler coalition dubbed themselves the United Nations. And as members of the international organization that bears precisely that name, we are bound today by our shared duty to honor the feat of our heroes and to remember both those who fell on the battlefields and the unprecedented sacrifices among civilians: we must remember all those who died from hunger, who were sent to gas chambers or shot in mass executions.

In order to honor the memory of the victims of World War II, the draft resolution provides for a special commemorative meeting of the UN General Assembly to be held during the second week of May, 2025, and establishes holding such meetings every five years thereafter.

In conclusion, allow me to express my deep gratitude to all the countries who co-sponsored the document, the broad geographical representation of these countries is the best indicator of the great importance of this memorable date for the international community.

👉 And we trust that this resolution will be adopted by consensus.

#Victory80 #WeRemember