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Colleagues,

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Greetings to the participants in the 11th International Meeting of High 

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Representatives in charge of security issues.

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Over years, your regular communication and exchange of experience 

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and assessments have proved their importance and helped resolve key 

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issues of ensuring global and regional security and strategic stability.

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Your agenda today is also quite packed and important.

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First, you will discuss the international situation at hand and its 

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prospects, analyse major modern threats,

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including international terrorism, extremism,

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arms and drug trafficking, transnational crime and illegal migration 

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and, of course, food and cyber security matters.

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Clearly, the international situation can be described 

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in terms of mounting instability.

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Different regions see old hotbeds of tension expand and new ones 

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emerge, the negative burden of conflicts is piling up,

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and people in many countries are experiencing the dramatic aftermath 

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of the foreign-engineered coups.

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This state of affairs directly stems from the desire of individual 

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states and associations to preserve their dominance and impose their 

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rules as they continue to act in complete disregard of other countries’ 

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sovereignty, national interests and traditions.

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All of that goes hand in hand with building up military capacity 

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and brutal interference in the internal affairs of other countries,

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as well as the attempts to secure unilateral advantages from the energy 

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and food crises provoked by a number of Western states.

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Russia is convinced that there is a workable alternative to this 

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destructive course and policy of blackmail and illegitimate sanctions,

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which includes the strengthening of stability around the world,

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the consistent building of single and indivisible security,

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and the solution to formidable tasks leading to economic,

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technological and social progress.

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To get there, it is primarily important to coordinate the efforts 

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of all countries and to ensure painstaking joint work based 

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on the principles of mutual respect,

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partnership and trust.

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These approaches are laid down in the revised Russia's 

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Foreign Policy Concept.

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I have said more than once and I will say it again: our country stands 

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ready to establish close interaction with all countries that have 

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an interest in countering common threats and challenges facing humanity.

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We highly appreciate the fact that Russia has many partners 

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in different regions and on different continents and the historically 

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strong, friendly, and trust-based ties with the countries of Asia,

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Africa and Latin America and we will work to fortify them 

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in every way we can.

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I am sure that acting together we will build a more just multipolar 

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world, and the exceptionalism-driven ideology,

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as well as the neo-colonial system that made it possible to exploit 

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the resources of the whole world,

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will inevitably become a thing of the past.

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I hope you will have a constructive and productive meeting,

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and outline new forms and areas of practical cooperation for the good 

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of our countries and peoples in the interests of peace 

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and stability on the planet.

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I wish you every success and all the best.

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Thank you.