Russia could not allow the creation of NATO military bases in Crimea! Lavrov

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One of the reasons for the conflict in Ukraine is the attempts to draw it into NATO. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov answered journalists' questions regarding the crisis around Ukraine at a press conference in New York.  Please subscribe, like, leave a comment and share this video on your social networks. Thanks!  Russian News on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Russian_News_Ch Russian News in Telegram: https://t.me/Russian_News_Ch  Support the channel (Bitcoin BTC): 1P85W41S85gEbNCYdb6uazxVDQtM67W779  #Lavrov#SergeiLavrov#Russia#Ukraine#UnitedStates#LavrovInterview#InterviewLavrov#NATO#2024#ukraina#ukrain

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00:00My question is about Ukraine.

00:04Yesterday, former President Trump met with President Zelensky.

00:10He promised that if he is elected, if he wins the elections in November, he will quickly

00:19resolve the issue of war.

00:22What are your comments on this and what do you think about this meeting?

00:27I understand it.

00:29Mr. Trump said several months ago that he would need 24 hours for this.

00:36The wording is different now, well, you know.

00:40We will welcome any initiatives that will lead to the desired result.

00:45And there can only be one result.

00:48This is a settlement of this problem based on eliminating the root causes of the Ukrainian

00:52crisis.

00:55And the root causes of this crisis are, first of all, that despite the assurances given

01:01to us, NATO continued to expand.

01:06The West did not comply with its commitments, which were approved at the highest level in

01:12the OSCE, and which consisted in no one strengthening its security at the expense of the security

01:22of any other country, and that no organization in the OSCE area should claim dominance,

01:30NATO was doing exactly this, it was expanding, it was swallowing up states, it was developing

01:36their territories with its military equipment and infrastructure.

01:41And Ukraine was next in line.

01:44This created direct threats to the security of the Russian Federation.

01:49Because NATO was planning to create military bases in Crimea, on the Sea of Azov and deploy

01:55its weapons there, which would threaten the Russian Federation.

02:01We could not allow this.

02:02But this is not even the main thing, although the security of the state is always important.

02:08Security is needed not as some kind of abstraction, but as something that is necessary for ordinary

02:14people.

02:16Now the UN Secretary-General and his representative, when communicating with you, say that the

02:22UN position is unshakable, that it advocates for resolving the crisis as soon as possible

02:29on the basis of international law.

02:32The UN Charter and the territorial integrity of Ukraine, well, in general, the head of

02:39the Secretariat needs to know the Charter more deeply and in more detail.

02:46I touched on this at the General Assembly session just now, where I spoke at the plenary

02:52session.

02:54The most important thing for me in this Charter, and, apparently, the founding fathers of the

03:00UN thought the same, is that the very first article proclaims the need to respect the

03:06rights of every person, regardless of race, gender, language and religion.

03:11Our Western colleagues, for any reason and without any reason, put human rights in the

03:17foreground.

03:18In particular, they did everything to ensure that in the so-called pact of the future these

03:27rights were hypertrophied and brought almost to the forefront.

03:31And it even says there that the UN Human Rights Council should be endowed with some

03:37powers that do not depend on member states.

03:41But in the case of the Ukrainian crisis, the West does not remember human rights at all.

03:47I quoted to you the need to respect the rights of every person, regardless of language and

03:52religion, and I reminded the General Assembly today that the Russian language has been led

04:01legislatively exterminated in Ukraine, starting from early childhood education right up to

04:08universities.

04:10In the media, all Russian-language media have either been expelled from Ukraine or closed.

04:15In the cultural sphere, Russian-language books are being thrown out of libraries, as was

04:21the case in Hitler's Germany.

04:25And just recently a law was passed banning the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

04:31Moreover, the Constitution of Ukraine still states that the state ensures the rights of

04:41Russians and other national minorities, including education, and so on.

04:49But we cannot get an answer from either the West or the UN Secretary General.

04:56Why is everyone silent when there are now many initiatives floating around about approaches

04:59to a settlement?

05:01This is a security issue.

05:06From the point of view of the inadmissibility of Ukraine joining the North Atlantic Alliance

05:10or any other military bloc.

05:13And a human rights issue.

05:15It is not about territories, as Zelensky asks.

05:19Give us the territories along the 1991 border.

05:23We are not talking about territories.

05:26We are talking about people who have lived on these lands for centuries, developed them,

05:32built factories, roads, ships, and much more.

05:35These are the real reasons.

05:38If Mr. Trump manages to repeal these laws we are talking about, then this will already

05:44be a step forward.

05:45It is very easy to do.

05:47You just need to take and vote.

05:50But there is another point that no one is mentioning now either.

05:54President Putin has repeatedly drawn attention to it.

05:58Zelensky's decree banning negotiations with Russia is in effect in Ukraine, therefore,

06:03I cannot even speculate on how they are going to organize this process.

06:10But our position is extremely clear.

06:15And they need to eliminate the root causes.

06:17Everyone knows about them.

06:18Good afternoon, Mr. Minister.

06:22Chinese television.

06:23There are two questions.

06:24First, I will ask very briefly.

06:26President Zelensky has repeatedly said here in this building that Russia is planning to

06:31attack Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

06:34How do you respond to this?

06:35We know that Brazil, China and other like-minded countries have created

06:45the Friends of Peace platform to mediate in resolving the crisis between Russia and Ukraine.

06:50Is Russia considering any peacekeeping plans for the Global South?

06:53As for Mr. Zelensky's statements, well, I think everyone has long since gotten used

06:58to his impromptu remarks.

07:00By the way, when he played on stage and read out written texts, he did better.

07:06And his impromptu remarks are worse.

07:08By the way, when he was here, he stated that each item of the peace formula is based on

07:15the principles, purposes and norms of the UN Charter.

07:19By the way, he rudely described the Chinese-Brazilian initiative, he said that it is unclear why

07:27they put it forward.

07:29Maybe they want to get the Nobel Peace Prize for it, he added.

07:35That there are no different versions of the UN Charter for different parts of the world.

07:40There is no separate charter for BRICS.

07:42Or for the G7.

07:44For some reason, there is no separate Russian-Iranian UN Charter.

07:49Or no separate Chinese-Brazilian UN Charter.

07:52So, Zelensky appreciated the efforts that our Chinese and Brazilian colleagues are making

08:00with the best of intentions.

08:05We discussed their plans at the previous stage in contacts with colleagues.

08:10And I asked what the specific content of this initiative would be.

08:21In these Chinese-Brazilian items, all the words are correct.

08:25These are calls for peace, calls for justice.

08:28For the implementation of international law, well, no one argues with that.

08:34But no one has told me yet how they specifically plan to move towards peace.

08:43I just know that this issue is still under consideration.

08:50The creation of this Friends of Peace Group was announced, which did not include all the

08:55countries present at the meeting.

08:58Some did not show interest in this.

09:01This group was created here in New York at the level of permanent representatives, well,

09:05I don't know how seriously it is possible to deal with this issue from here.

09:14But the permanent representatives are talented people.

09:17We'll see what they create.

09:19The most important thing is what I said when answering the first question.

09:25Chairman Xi Jinping put forward not a Ukrainian, but a global security initiative in February

09:332023.

09:36There is a key phrase there.

09:43This initiative is dedicated to the settlement of any conflicts.

09:49Among the key methods for considering problems in a particular crisis region.

09:54It is directly stated there that it is necessary to agree on eliminating the root causes of

10:01the conflict.

10:09The root causes of the conflict in Ukraine are to draw the KIV regime into NATO.

10:15This goal remains on the agenda.

10:19Mr. Stoltenberg and other representatives of the North Atlantic Alliance regularly repeat

10:23this with enviable persistence.

10:25The second reason, of course, is what I said.

10:29Human rights.

10:31This is the extermination of the Russian language, Russian culture, Russian education.

10:36The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

10:39By the way.

10:41No one has banned the Arabic language in Israel.

10:45But Zelensky banned the Russian language.

10:48Although it is spoken not only by ethnic Russians.

10:52But also by the majority of the population of Ukraine.

10:59Specific people at the level of permanent representatives.

11:03Who will be engaged in concretizing this concept.

11:09They cannot ignore these arguments and these root causes, moreover.

11:16They will have to be guided by the principles of the UN Charter not selectively.

11:22But in their entirety and in all their interrelationships.

11:25There are also those very human rights that I mentioned.

11:29This is the principle of the UN Charter, which has been grossly violated.

11:33Even the Ukrainian constitution, I will repeat this again.

11:36Contains obligations to respect the rights of national minorities in all aspects and,

11:41of course.

11:44On interpreting the principle of territorial integrity.

11:50One cannot ignore its interrelation with the principle of self-determination of peoples.

11:54There is also a consensus on this matter.

11:57I have spoken to our Chinese, Brazilian and other colleagues about this.

12:04That back in 1970 the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a declaration in.

12:09Which it was decided.

12:16That it is necessary to respect the territorial integrity of those states whose governments

12:20represent all the people living in a given territory and respect the right to self-determination.

12:29Why did everyone take it calmly when Kosovo was unilaterally declared independent in 2008?

12:34The United States applauded this event, saying that it was a practical manifestation of the

12:39right of a nation to self-determination.

12:41Incidentally, no military actions were conducted in Kosovo.

12:46A few years later, in 2014, after a bloody coup in Ukraine, the fascists, who seized

12:53power went to war against Crimea.

12:55And then Crimea held a referendum, the Americans said that this was not possible because the

13:00principle of territorial integrity was in effect here.

13:03It is very important that those who sincerely want to help find a solution to this crisis

13:11understand the true reasons.

13:13We should rely on the UN Charter.

13:15Not like Mr. Dujarric, who said that we should be guided by the UN Charter and the principle

13:22of territorial integrity of Ukraine.

13:26But we should rely on the UN Charter in its entirety and in all the interrelationships

13:30of its principles.

13:32This is my request.

13:34This is my message to those who will work in this peace group.

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