PRESS RELEASES AND NEWS
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We, the participants of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress, express our collective wish to bring the ongoing conflict to an end as soon as possible. We have all suffered more than enough from violence, bloodshed, terrorism and devastation. Thousands of houses, schools and hospitals, factories and plants were destroyed during the war, railways, power stations, irrigation systems as well as religious and cultural heritage sites were severely damaged. We all share the same goal: To see peace and stability restored in our homeland and to live peacefully side by side free from violence and terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
Q: On 28 January Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson expressed his concern over detention of a number of persons during demonstrations of opposition in Russia. How would you comment on that?
On 19th January 2018 the Consul General of Russia Mr Andrey Pritsepov attended a birthday celebration of one of Scotland’s greatest poets Robert Burns in Stirling.
On 26th January Counsellor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom Vladimir Derbensky took part in the international exhibition “New technologies in education 2018” which is considered to be one of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind in the world.
Q: How would you comment on the statements of the UK Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson published on 26th January by “The Daily Telegraph” on allegations of the intention of Russia “to damage Britain’s economy, rip its infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths”?
On 23 January Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko joined Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev at the Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day. International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005. In 2005 the United Nations General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of Holocaust. On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army.
The event co-hosted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Embassy of Israel was held against the backdrop of the danger of growing neo-Nazism in Europe.
Russian diplomacy has been consistently pointing at unacceptable practices in some EU countries where former Nazi fighters, including those from the SS, are honored as war veterans. This phenomenon continues despite concerns raised by the international community represented by the UN General Assembly.
We call upon all states to leave up to our shared memory of Holocaust and WW2 and to never allow these atrocities to be repeated.
On January 24 an event dedicated to the Holocaust Memorial Day was held at Caledonian University in Glasgow with participation of the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, Lord-provost of Glasgow Eva Bolander, representatives of the Holocaust Memorial Fund and the Russian Cultural Center in Glasgow.
On January 24, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the US side’s initiative. The ministers discussed a broad range of issues on the bilateral agenda.
In particular, they expressed a common opinion that North Korea should strictly comply with the requirements of the UN Security Council, which repeatedly denounced North Korea’s nuclear test explosions and missile launches. At the same time, Sergey Lavrov cautioned against escalating tensions around the Korean Peninsula through aggressive rhetoric, anti-North Korean blocs and threats of a naval blockade. The Russian minister pointed out that Pyongyang had demonstrated readiness for dialogue and called for settling disputes exclusively by diplomatic means and with due regard for the related Russian-Chinese initiatives.
Last year marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Australia. The past decades were rich in events and gave us plenty of examples of joint efforts for the benefit of our countries.
The history of Russia's contacts with the Australian continent is centuries-long. On June 16, 1807, the Russian sloop Neva called at Port Jackson (today Sydney) to replenish its stock of provisions and fresh water. The same year Lachlan Macquarie, a young officer who later became a prominent Australian politician and governor of New South Wales, visited Baku, Astrakhan, Moscow and St Petersburg on his way from Australia to London as a member of a diplomatic mission. Between 1807 and 1835, fifteen Russian vessels, including the ships on which famous Russian seafarers Faddey Bellinsgauzen and Mikhail Lazarev set sail to search for the Antarctic, called at Port Jackson and Hobart.
In the middle of the 19th century, the number of Russian immigrants in Australia started to increase. In 1857, two consular missions were opened in Melbourne and Sydney to protect interests of Russian nationals. Australian tradesmen James Damyon and Edmund Paul were appointed Honorary Vice Consuls. Later, the Russian Empire appointed Honorary Vice Consuls in Adelaide, Brisbane, Port Elizabeth, Hobart and Perth. In 1894, the Russian Honorary Vice Consulate in Melbourne was raised to a Consulate.
In London, on October 10, 1942, the USSR and Australia signed the Agreement on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations. On January 2, 1943, Australian diplomats came to Kuybyshev (today Samara) to set up an embassy, which was opened on January 26, on Australia Day. The Soviet diplomatic mission was established in Canberra in 1943.
On 19-21 January 2017 Third Secretary of the Embassy Vadim Retyunskiy presented the Ushakov medals to the Arctic Convoys veterans.
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