 of an equal socially oriented and sustainable multipolar architecture, but that the objective geopolitical processes are being seen by Washington and fully subjugated to it the elites of Western countries are considered by them as a threat to their dominating position. The United States and allies want to stop the march of history. So at some point in the past declaring that they were victorious in the Cold War, Washington erected themselves into an almost envoy of God on earth without any obligations, but only the sacred right to act with impunity wherever and wherever they want. And this can be done anywhere against any state, especially if they're somehow displeased, the self-proclaimed masters of the world. And we do recall the wars of aggressions very far from American shores in Yugoslavia and Iraq and Libya, which claimed many hundreds of thousands of peaceful lives. Were the truly legitimate interests of the West were impacted in any one of those countries? Was English banned or any other language of native countries banned there? Mass media culture? Were the Anglo-Saxons declared to be subhuman or have a weaponry was used against them? So what is the outcome of the adventurism of the United States and the Middle East? Has a human rights situation improved? Is a rule of law better? The socioeconomic situation may perhaps be stabilized or people's livelihood is better? Name a country where Washington interfered by force and where as a result of that life improved. Trying to restore a one-polar model under the slogan of a rules-based order, West is introducing dividing lines everywhere along the lines of a confrontation between blocks. You are either with us or against us. There is no third option for possible. There are no compromises. Continuing with the course to spread NATO to the East and bringing the military infrastructure of NATO to the borders of Russia, the United States now have the goal of subjugating the Asian areas. And the June summit of NATO in Madrid, the self-proclaimed defensive alliance declared the indivisible security of your Atlantic and India and the Pacific. And under the slogan of India-Pacific strategies, closed formats have been created and they undermine what has been built on the ASEAN for decades, namely an open and inclusive regional architecture. And in addition to that, they're playing with fire around Taiwan. On top of that, they're promising military support to Taiwan. Clearly, the notorious Monroe Doctrine is becoming global in scope. Washington is trying to turn the entire world into its own backyard. And the way of doing this is through unlawful unilateral sanctions, which have been for many years used in violation of the charter and used as a tool of political blackmail. This cynicism here is obvious because these restrictions hit civilians. They prevent them from getting access to basic goods, including medication, vaccines, and food. An egregious example we have here is the American blockade of Cuba, more than 60 years old. The General Assembly has been for a long time and insistently demanding that it be immediately lifted. And this is being done by the absolute majority of voices. The Secretary General, whose duty include helping implement General Assembly decisions, must of course pay special attention to this issue. The Secretary General has a special role also in mobilizing efforts to overcome food and energy crises, which resulted in the wake of an out-of-control money emission in the United States and the European Union during the pandemic, and as a result of an irresponsible, unprofessional act by the European Union in the hydrocarbon fuel markets. Despite common sense, Washington and Brussels compounded the situation when they announced economic war against Russia. As a result, there is a growing price on foodstuffs, fertilizers, oil, and gas. We welcome the efforts made by the Secretary General when they helped arrive at the Istanbul agreements on the 24th of June, but they need to be implemented. But so far the ships with the Ukrainian grain go somewhere but not into the poorest countries. On the one hand, on the other hand, the impediments by U.S. and EU, the financial and logistical impediments against our grain and fertilizers have not been lifted. Furthermore, for several weeks we have been saying that about 300,000 tons of fertilizer are being held up in European ports, and we have been proposing that they be forwarded free of charge to the country, to the needed countries in Africa. But the European Union is not heating this. The official Russophobia in the West is unprecedented now. The scope is grotesque. They are not shying away from declaring the intent to inflict the military defeat on our country, but also to destroy and fracture Russia. In other words, what they want to do is to remove from the global map a geopolitical entity which has become all too independent. So how have Russia in the recent decades been infringing on the interests of our opponents? Is it that we cannot be forgiven for making possible the military and strategic detente in 1980s and 1990s because of my country's position? Or is it that we voluntarily dissolved the Warsaw Treaty Organization and thus removed the reason for NATO's being? Is it that we supported the reunification of Germany without any preconditions and against the position of London in Paris? That we would drew our military from Europe, Asia, from Latin America. That we recognized the independence of former Soviet republics. That we believed the promises of Western leaders not to expand, not by an inch of NATO in the East, but when it started, agreed to basically legitimize it through signing a founding act between Russia and NATO. Did we infringe on the interests of the West when we warned them that it was unacceptable to bring closer a threatening military infrastructure, bring it closer to our borders? The arrogance of the West, American exclusivity have become particularly destructive after the end of the Cold War. Already in 1991, the Deputy Chief of Pentagon Paul Wolfebeth in his conversation with the NATO Commander of Europe, Wesley Clark, stated openly that, I quote, after the end of the Cold War, we can use our military without any fear of reprisal. We have five, maybe ten years, so as to clean out the surrogate Soviet regimes, such as Iraq and Syria, until such time as there is a new superpower who can challenge us. End of quote. And I am convinced that at some point in someone's memoirs, we will find out how the American strategy was being developed as regards Ukraine, but even so, Washington's plans in this regard are obvious in any event. It is possible they are not being forgiven at the request of the United States and European Union. We supported the agreement of the Ukrainian President at the time, Mr. Yanukovych. His agreement with the forces of opposition to resolve crisis in February 2014. These agreements were guaranteed by Germany, Poland and France. But the next morning, they were trampled underfoot by the leaders of the bloody coup, who thus humiliated the European mediators. The West simply shrugged and watched in silence members of the coup started bombing the eastern of Ukraine, where people refused to accept the results of the coup. Watched as organizers made into the rank of national heroes, the accomplices of Nazis. Are we expected to acquiesce in the key of intent to ban the Russian language, education, almas, media and the culture with the insistence on chasing the Russians out of Crimea, on waging war against Donbass, whose citizens were proclaimed by the then authorities and now authorities in Kiev, proclaimed to be not people by specimens? Is it that we violated the interests of the West because we played a role in stopping the forceful actions by the Kiev neo-Nazis in the eastern of Ukraine, and then demanded that the Minsk package of measures be implemented, something that was unanimously approved by the Security Council, but then laid a load by Kiev with the participation of US and EU. For many years, we have been proposing to have security in Europe with the basis on equal and indivisible security enshrined at the highest level in OSCE documents. According to this principle, no one needs to strengthen their own security at the expense of others. And the very last proposal to make these agreements legally binding, something that we introduced in December 2021, and the reaction was an arrogant rejection of that. The incapacity of Western countries to negotiate and the continued war by the Kiev regime against their own people left out with no choice but to recognize the dependence of the Donetsk and the Lugansk People's Republic and start a special military operation to protect the Russian and other people on Donbass, and so as to remove the threats against our security, which NATO had been consistently creating in Ukraine at our borders. The operation is conducted in pursuance of agreements on friendship, cooperation, mutual assistance between us and that Republic and on the basis of Article 51 of the UN Charter. I am convinced that any sovereign self-respecting state would do the same in our state, a state which understands its responsibility to its own people. The West is now throwing a fit because of the referenda which are being conducted in the Lugansk, Donetsk, Kharkov, and Zaporizh Oblast. But people living there are basically only reacting to what was said to them by the head of the Kiev regime, Mr Zelensky, in August 2021. At the time, he said anyone who feels themselves to be Russian for the benefit of their children and grandchildren to get out and to go to Russia. And that's what the inhabitants of those regions are doing, taking their land with them where their ancestors have been living for hundreds of years. Any unbiased observer can see very clearly the Anglo-Saxons who fully subjugated Europe for them. Ukraine is just an expandable material as they are fighting against Russia. NATO declared that our country is an immediate threat on their way to total domination. And a long-term threat will be the PRC. At the same time, Collective West, headed by Washington, is sending frightening signals to other countries saying anyone who disobeys can be next. One of the consequences of the crusade by the West against the objectionables is the growing decline of multilateral institutions. They have been turned by the United States and allies into tools to implement their own selfish interests. This is something that is being pursued at the UN, Human Rights Council, UNESCO and other multilateral institutions. The organizational prohibition of chemical weapons has basically been privatized. Fierce attempts are being made to prevent creating, within the convection on biological and toxin weapons, over a mechanism which would ensure transparency for hundreds military biological programs of the Pentagon has around the world, including on the perimeter of our country and throughout Eurasia. And these programs are far from harmless. This is irrefutable, according to the facts that we came to in Ukraine. There is an assertive line to privatize the UN secretariat, introducing into its work a neoliberal narrative which ignores the cultural and civilizational multifaceted nature of the world. We call upon making sure that we follow the charter and ensure a fair geographical representation of member states, making sure that there is no one single country dominant in the secretariat. An impossible situation was created by Washington having to do with the obligation of the host country of a headquarters agreement to ensure the normal conditions for the participation of all member states in UN work. The obligations under this host country agreement are also placed on the secretary general and inactivity is unacceptable. We're also concerned by the efforts made by countries who are undermining the prerogatives of the Security Council and of course the Council and UN have to be aligned to contemporary realities. We see the prospect of making the Security Council more democratic exclusively, exclusively through broadening the representation of the countries from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We note India and Brazil in particular as key international actors and worthy candidates for permanent membership within the Council, whilst at the same time unilaterally and mandatory raising the profile of Africa. It is very important today to make sure that all member states unequivocally without reservations reaffirm their commitment to the purposes and principles of the charter as a first and necessary step to restore collective responsibility for the fate of humankind. And that was the reason why in July 2021 a group of friends to support the charter was created and co-sponsor of the group was Russia and it now counts 20 countries. The goal here is to make sure that there is strict abiding to universal norms of international law to counterbalance unilateral approaches and we call upon everyone to join in and in this context great potential is possessed by such organizations as the Non-Aligned Movement, BRICS, SEO and ACN. The Western colleagues are very aggressive in imposing their understanding of democracy as a way of organizing life to all countries categorically do not want to be guided by democratic norms in international affairs and very good example the situation in Ukraine again it would seem to be that Russia justified its position has been justifying it for years and the Western they disagree. Okay well let other members of the international community decide for themselves what their position would be on the side of one on the side of others or neutral that's what happens in democracies when politicians opposing each other defend their viewpoints and try to convey it to others but the United States and allies do not give the freedom of choice to anyone they threaten the twist the arms of anyone who dares think for themselves and demand by threats that countries join in with anti-Russian sanctions so that doesn't work very well but it is very clear that these acts by the United States and its satellites is not democracy it's pure unadulterated dictatorship or an attempt to impose it we're left with a strong impression that the Washington and subjugated Europe are trying to keep their disappearing hegemony using prohibited means diplomacy constantly is being replaced by illegal sanctions against competitors in economic sports information area culture and generally in context with people let's turn to the to the problem with visas for delegates for international meetings in New York Geneva Vienna in Paris there also we see the desire to remove competition make sure that alternative viewpoints do not come into multilateral discussions I am convinced that we need to protect the UN and scrape everything that confrontational and superficial from there and give it back its reputation and an honest platform to siege for balance for all member states and this is the approach that we guided up when we put forward our national initiatives it is of principal importance to make sure that we have a comprehensive comprehensive ban on the deployment of weapons in space and this is the reason for the Russia-China draft international treaty considered by the conference on disarmament it's particularly important to protect our cyberspace within the open-ended working group of the general assemblies assembly on the agreements on how to protect international security and to use a special committee for universal convention on how to counter the use of ICT for criminal purposes we continue supporting office on counterterrorism and either under terrorist entities within the UN and we go to continue develop relationships between the UN CSTO European Eurasian Economic Union CIS so as to pull our efforts in the greater duration we call for an enhanced work on overcoming regional conflicts we think that the priority here is to overcome the impasse in creating an independent Palestinian state restoring which was restoring the state of Iraq and Libya destroyed by NATO aggression neutralized threats to Syria having a sustainable process of national conciliation in Yemen overcoming the heavy burden of NATO presence in Afghanistan and we are working on restoring the original JCPOA on Iran a nuclear program ensuring the comprehensive settlement on the Korean Peninsula many conflict situation in Africa require that we reject the temptation to play a zero-sum game then that outside players consolidate on the around the initiatives by AFRO african union we are concerned by the situation in cause of a Bosnia-Herzegovina where the United States and the EU are stubbornly leading to the destruction of the international legal basis as we currently have it in resolution 12 to 44 and the Dayton peaceful agreement madam president at times like these it's natural to seek wisdom from our predecessors so in the pithy expression of the former secretary general Doug Hummysholt who remembered the horrors of world war he said and I quote the UN wasn't created to take mankind to paradise but rather to save humanity from hell these are very topical words they call upon us to understand our individual and collective responsibility for creating conditions for a peaceful and harmonious development for our future generation generations and everyone need to show political will for that when we are ready for such honest work and we are convinced that the stability of the world order can be ensured is exclusively through returning to the origins of the UN diplomacy basing ourselves on the key principle of two democracy the respect for the sovereign equality of states I thank you yes and that was a Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressing the UN General Assembly against the backdrop of course of the Ukraine war and the Russian implementation of its announcement of of recruiting at least 300 000 reservists after the major setback Russia experience in Ukraine in the last few weeks Lavrov blaming the West the US and Brussels for the deteriorating global order as he puts it and vowing to continue to fight for Russia's values all of this happening while russians are seeking to flee to avoid a military call up this is it for now we can stay updated by following us on social media or online thanks for watching