🇷🇺 Russian Federation - Minister for Foreign Affairs Addresses UN General Debate, 78th Session

Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 19 - 26 September 2023). This video is available in multiple languages. Click the settings ⚙️ button to change the language track. ------------- Speaking to the General Assembly today (23 Sep), Lavrov said, “the future is being shaped by a struggle, a struggle between the global majority in favor of a fairer distribution of global benefits and civilized diversity, and between the few who wield neocolonial methods of subjugation in order to maintain their domination which is slipping through their hands.” The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs said, “something that has been unprecedented since the end of the Cold War, was a recent number of joint exercises between the US and their European NATO Allies inter alia to develop scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons in the Russian Federation.” He added, “the stated aim of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.” Lavrov continued, “the US and its subordinate Western collective are continuing to fuel conflicts, which artificially divide humanity into hostile blocks and hamper the achievement of overall aims.” He stressed, “they are doing everything they can to prevent the formation of a genuine multipolar fair world order, they are trying to force the world to play according to their own self-centered rules. I would like to urge Western politicians and deputize once again to carefully reread the UN Charter.” The Russian Foreign Minister also said, “we are concerned by Washington and its Asian allies whipping up hysteria on the Korean peninsula where the strategic capabilities of the US are building up. The Russian-Chinese initiative to deem humanitarian and political challenges as a priority have been rejected.” He continued, “there has been a tragic development of the situation in Sudan. It is nothing other than the impact of the failed Western experiment to export its liberal and democratic dogma to the country. We support the constructive initiatives to speed up the regulation or rather settlement of the domestic Sudanese conflict.” The Russian diplomat said, “when we see the nervous relation of the West to recent events in Africa, in particularly in Niger and Gabon, one cannot fail to recall how Washington and Brussels responded to the bloody coup in Ukraine in February in 2014.” He explained, “a day after an agreement was reached on settling under EU guarantees the issues, but unfortunately, the opposition just trampled on US and its allies supported the coup hailing it as a demonstration of democracy.” Lavrov continued, “we cannot fail to be concerned by the ongoing deteriorating situation in the Serbian province of Kosovo. NATO’s supplying arms to Kosovo and helping them to establish an army grossly violates the key resolution of the Security Council 1244. The whole world can see how in the Balkans the sad story of the Minsk agreement in Ukraine has repeated, there, I recall, there was stipulation for a special status.” Lavrov concluded, “There, it’s important also to unblock the work of the WTO disputes body, there is an increasing need to expand the composition the Security Council solely through eradicating under-representation in the composition from the global majorities of countries and members of the Security Council both permanent in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.” ---------- The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policy-making organ of the Organization. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote. The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter. The UN has evolved over the years to keep pace with a rapidly changing world. But one thing has stayed the same: it remains the one place on Earth where all the world’s nations can gather together, discuss common problems, and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity. General debate website: ---------------------------------------- مشاهدة هذا الفيديو باللغة العربية على موقع البث الشبكي للأمم المتحدة 请在联合国网络电视（UN Web TV）观看中文版视频 Regardez cette vidéo en français sur UN Web TV Vean este video en español en UN Web TV Смотрите это видео на русском на UN Web TV Screenshot credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías #UNGA #UnitedNations