GA / RUSSIAN FEDERATION LAVROV

23-Sep-2023 00:04:17
Speaking at the General Assembly’s High-Level Debate, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey 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.” UNIFEED
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STORY: GA / RUSSIAN FEDERATION LAVROV
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DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
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1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

23 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Pan right, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at the GA rostrum
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation:
“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.”
4. Med shot, US delegation
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation:
“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. The stated aim of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.”
6. Med shot, Lavrov at the GA rostrum
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation:
“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. 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.”
9. Wide shot, Lavrov at the GA rostrum
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation:
“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. 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.”
11. Wide shot, Lavrov at the GA rostrum
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation:
“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. 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. 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.”
13. Wide shot, Lavrov at the GA rostrum
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation:
“It's high time for a reform of the existing global governance architecture. There should be no more artificially holding back of the redistribution of voting quotas in the IMF and the World Bank. The West must recognize the real economic and financial clout that the Global South countries have. 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.”
15. Med shot, Lavrov walks away
STORYLINE
Speaking at the General Assembly’s High-Level Debate today (23 Sep), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey 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.”

He added, “it's high time for a reform of the existing global governance architecture. There should be no more artificially holding back of the redistribution of voting quotas in the IMF and the World Bank. The West must recognize the real economic and financial clout that the Global South countries have.”

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.”
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