PRESS RELEASES AND NEWS
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Q: How would you comment on the UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s post on “Twitter” stating that “Russia has objected to Novichok being added to OPCW control lists”?
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to participants at the International Strategic Forum for Intellectual Property, IPQuorum 2019 “DnA IP. The Multiple Facets of Intellectual Property for Individuals and Economy”
President Putin attended the plenary session of 5th International Arctic Forum The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue.
On 9 April 2019 Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko met Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization (ICO) Mr Jose Sette.
On 8 April 2019 Agricultural Attache Vladimir Derbenskiy visited Natural & Organic Products Europe - 2019, one of the most important food industry shows in Europe.
Question: How would you comment on the allegations in the British media, according to which Russia supports the military operation of the Libyan National Army under the command of Khalifa Haftar?
The UK Government and media have been providing their assessments of the role of NATO in the European affairs. They regard the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as “the most successful alliance in history”. But let us have a closer look at the facts.
After the Cold War (and 30 years have passed since) the Alliance was looking for its “raison d’etre”. NATO operations in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Libya have destabilised those countries for a long time, causing numerous civilian casualties and dealing a severe blow to the basic norms of the international law.
The North Atlantic Treaty, which led to the establishment of NATO, was signed on April 4 seventy years ago. On this occasion, the North Atlantic Council held a meeting of the member states’ foreign ministers in Washington on April 3−4.
The agenda of the meeting and the decisions taken at it by the North Atlantic Council show that the alliance is not going to stop building up its military and political confrontation with Russia. The bloc’s key goal – to rally its allies for containing “the threat from the East” – has not changed since its establishment in 1949.
Question: It is widely believed that creating the best environment for domestic development is one of the main goals of foreign policy. How well is Russian foreign policy coping with this task?
Sergey Lavrov: It is not just “widely believed.” It is a postulate incorporated in foreign policy documents, such as the Foreign Policy Concept and other fundamental strategic papers which form the basis of our work and our country’s foreign policy activities.
Against the backdrop of the habitual – even ritual – anti-Russia propaganda, some voices of reason have been heard lately among American experts. Of particular interest in this regard is the recent article by the Daily Beast titled "This Hotline Could Keep the U.S. and Russia from Cyberwar". No doubt, for the professionals who have closely followed the development of the situation this publication will hardly be an eye-opener. What is important is that the article openly admits that the absence of a depoliticized expert dialogue between Russia and the U.S. on international information security is not only a road to nowhere but also a dangerous course fraught with further misunderstanding and a risk of a large-scale conflict.
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