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2022-05-15 21:12:28 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.

The Collective Security Treaty was signed on May 15, 1992 in Tashkent. On May 14, 2002, at its session in Moscow, the Collective Security Council decided to transform the mechanisms and cooperation structures of the CST member states into an international regional organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization with the appropriate status. The CSTO Charter entered into force on September 18, 2003.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes: Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation and Republic of Tajikistan.

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2022-05-15 21:12:05 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions following the CIS Foreign Ministers Council meeting.

Dushanbe, May 13, 2022

The CIS countries unanimously confirmed their commitment to cooperation in this format. All of them want the CIS to grow more influential. This will be facilitated by today’s decision to consider in practical terms the CIS’s request to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to grant it observer status at the #CSTO.

Obviously, #Afghanistan needs to be rebuilt. We must not let the situation collapse and destabilise again. It would be hard on the Afghan people who had been suffering under NATO’s presence for twenty years.

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2022-05-15 21:12:05 Key takeaways from todays’ UN Security Council meeting on US biolabs in Ukraine:

1. The US refuses to explain its engagement in military bio activities in Ukraine. Keeps shrugging off several hundred pages of evidence. “These are all lies and Russia’s propaganda, and we are good guys because it can’t be otherwise”. Not a word on the point of discussion.

2. Western delegations are praising the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and calling on us to make use of its mechanisms. They fail to mention however that it is the US who is blocking the elaboration of BWC verification mechanism. Such a hypocricy!

3. The US refuses to explain why it doesn’t want an effective international verification mechanism for bio weapons. Why act like this unless you are trying to conceal something? Why does Washington position itself above the international law? American exceptionalism at its best.

Main conclusion: we have definitely hit their soft spot. It’s clear for any unbiased observer that they are obscuring the issue and trying to divert attention from this uncomfortable topic trying to discourage us to raise it by repeating mantras on “Russian aggression” etc.

So stay tuned, there’s more evidence on US military biological programs to follow! Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-15 21:11:13 Four years ago, the Crimea Bridge was officially opened connecting the peninsula with mainland Russia across the Kerch Strait. This huge infrastructure project became a token of Crimea’s reunification with our country and gave a powerful boost to the socioeconomic progress of the peninsula.

The 19-kilometre bridge, Europe’s longest, has two parallel parts – railway tracks and automobile lanes. Only the automobile part of the facility was commissioned in May 2018. Cargo traffic on the bridge was opened in the autumn of the same year whereas passenger trains were launched in December 2019. A regular commuter train traffic was launched in March 2020 between Kerch and Anapa thereby making the regions of the Federation popular with tourists as close as possible.

In 2021, Crimea bridge was crossed by 5.3 million vehicles including 810,000 lorries and almost 50,000 busses. Overall, 18 million vehicles passed through the automobile part of the bridge since its launch. Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-14 17:13:37 Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of Finland Sauli Niinisto

The presidents had a sincere exchange of views over the announced decision by Finland’s leadership to apply for NATO membership.

Vladimir Putin stressed that rejecting the traditional policy of military neutrality would be wrong since there are no threats to Finland’s security. Such a change in the country’s foreign policy course could have a negative effect on Russia-Finland relations, which have been built over the course of many years in the spirit of neighbourliness and partnership cooperation and have a mutually beneficial nature.

The leaders also discussed the situation in Ukraine. In particular, Vladimir Putin shared his opinion of the state of the negotiating process between Russian and Ukrainian representatives. This process has been practically put on hold by Kiev, which does not show any interest in a serious and constructive dialogue.

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2022-05-14 17:13:37 Vladimir Putin congratulated Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on his election as President of the United Arab Emirates

“I am certain that you leadership will further strengthen the friendly Russian-Emirati relations and mutually beneficial cooperation. I look forward to continuing our constructive dialogue and joint work on important issues of the bilateral and international agenda,” the message of the President of Russia reads, in part.

See more on the official Kremlin site.

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2022-05-14 17:12:19 In the past weeks over 310 Russia's EMERCOM lorry convoys delivered nearly 20'000 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of Donbass (DPR & LNR) and Ukraine: mainly food supplies and medicine.

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2022-05-14 17:11:58 #LIVE: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov is taking part in the Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (#SVOP)

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2022-05-13 21:13:52 President Vladimir Putin sent messages of condolence to Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Vice President, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, its Minister of Defence and Ruler of the Emirate of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on the death of United Arab Emirates President and Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

In his messages Vladimir Putin noted, in part, that the name of Sheikh Khalifa was associated with a very important period in the history of Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates as a whole, which was marked by impressive successes in economic, social, scientific and technological development.

”Sheikh Khalifa has done much to strengthen friendly relations and constructive cooperation between our countries”, the President stressed. Открыть/Комментировать

2022-05-13 15:01:58 In #Dushanbe, FM Sergey #Lavrov held a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Belarus Vladimir Makei.

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