Press conference by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after the end of the G20 summit in Brazil. teleSUR
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00:00The Brazilian presidency overall over this year has a positive impact on the efforts
00:10of the G20, and it goes on, follows up on the successful summits in Indonesia and India.
00:18Next year, South African Republic is going to take over presidency over the G20, so the
00:25BRICS countries will continue to preside over the G20, and our counterparts have already
00:31named their priorities.
00:33They plan to promote agenda on the reformation of the global institutions, something that
00:38I've just mentioned, and to enhance potential in the field of sustainable development, prioritizing
00:45the goals of eradication of poverty, hunger, and inequality.
00:49And obviously, South Africa is going to focus also on the issues of the African countries,
00:55and in our dialogue with Africa, under the partnership forum that was established in
01:02accordance with decisions made after the last year's Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg,
01:08and this forum was launched in Sochi recently, and the first ministerial meeting took place
01:15there, and we are going to take into consideration efforts of our South African friends in this
01:21regard, and we are going to coordinate informally, but it's going to be very useful.
01:27So these are our estimates.
01:30Now I'm ready to take your questions.
01:34Q As for Brazil's support of creating global life, how is the West operating on this problem?
01:47Well, the West has been speculating about that permanently.
01:52They have this way of presenting things in such a way that everybody is to blame except
01:59them, and as far as security, food security is concerned.
02:05President Putin has numerously, many times, given the example of money emission during
02:12the pandemic when the United States and the European Union combined, emitted some $10
02:19trillion, covering up everything that was on the market, preparing for isolation.
02:29That was when the prices surged for the first time.
02:34We on our part, as a policy, satisfy the demand from developing countries even now when we
02:41are facing sanctions and when we are denied the use of sea ports to export our food and
02:53grain, when insurance companies have spiked up the insurance tariffs for all sea ports
03:02in the zone of war.
03:06This has automatically arose to the government who works with us, automatically doubling
03:12insurance rates, potting money.
03:14The insurance rates and many other obstacles have closed our fertilisers and our cargoes
03:23because of fertilisers which have been arrested, and basically everything was done to lower
03:30the normal ways of exporting our food products that the global South needs, and we were acclaimed
03:36for this because this is the way they do it, because the Russians, as they say, started
03:42the war.
03:43Well, this is ridiculous, especially for people who look like grown-ups but still continue
03:50to push those narratives blatantly.
03:55As I said, our idea in the Alliance, combining more than 80 countries, more than 80 countries
04:03have signed this document, and Russia was one of the first to support this initiative,
04:09keeping sustainable goals in mind, in this case eradicating famine and poverty by 2030,
04:19and we have helped in any way we can to move closer to this goal.
04:31We have many years of experience.
04:36We have been developing this programme of providing food for schoolchildren to our neighbours,
04:43to countries in Africa and Latin America.
04:47We have initiatives to support farmers, to provide them with state-of-the-art technologies.
04:55Farming has been developing dynamically in Russia, and this is confirmed by harvest data.
05:06Harvests have been very good in Russia.
05:08For example, our friends in Algeria told us when Algerian President Tabun came to Moscow
05:23they really need fertilisers, but President Tabun said we can buy fertilisers from Russia,
05:31but we would ask you to establish fertiliser manufacturing in the country, and so we have
05:36been doing this.
05:37And every country signing under this declaration can contribute, can make its own contribution,
05:45including making this for the World Food Organization, the UN Food Organization and
05:54other structures.
05:56Their leaders were present at the session when the alliance was established, and I am
06:05sure that Brazil, being the author of this initiative, will not leave it unattended,
06:14and we will make steps towards its practical implementation, and we will support them.
06:22So how did the drafting of the declaration language on the situation in the Middle East proceed?
06:30Well, of course, the West was reluctant to even discuss this document, but they realised
06:42that without that there will be no solution to the conflict.
06:48There were attempts by the West, this paragraph was, this underlines the catastrophic tragedy
07:06that the Middle West is experiencing, to put this paragraph after the paragraph on Ukraine,
07:12but then we didn't even have to, we didn't have to speak to them.
07:27We were watching live statements from the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister,
07:30Sergey Lavrov, in Brazil following the G20 Summit.
07:35He was referring to the Global Alliance Against Poverty and Hunger that was launched as an
07:40initiative by Brazil and expressed Russia's full support to it and to continue working together
07:45in a multi-polar world to eradicate these scourges that affect humanity as a whole.
07:52He was also referring to the final declaration that was approved by the 19
07:57heads of state that were present at the G20 Summit, and referred that he denounced that
08:04the West was trying to introduce different paragraphs that were not in accordance with
08:09what they were trying to achieve in the declaration, but was very pleased by the
08:13final declaration and all the aspects it touches to continue working.
08:18We're gonna take a short break, we'll be right back and we'll have more updates in upcoming news briefs.