31
January 201820:09
Briefing
by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, January 31, 2018
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Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech at the final stage of the Leaders of Russia
contest
On
February 7 in Sochi, Sergey Lavrov will address the participants of the Russian
Leaders national management contest organised pursuant to the President’s
instructions by the Graduate School of Public Administration under the Russian
Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech and answers to media questions will be
available on the Foreign Ministry web site and official accounts in social
media.
Events
for Diplomat’s Day
On February
10, the Russian diplomatic service will mark its professional holiday for the
16th time. This year, February 10 falls on Saturday, so most
events will take place in the run-up to this day.
Festive
events will be held at all Russian foreign missions and the Foreign Ministry
headquarters. Our embassies, consulates general and permanent missions with
international organisations will also publish corresponding materials.
On
February 8, flowers will be laid at burial places of prominent diplomats at
Novodevichy Cemetery: former foreign ministers and ambassadors of the USSR and
Russia.
Representatives
of the Foreign Ministry administration, veterans and employees of the Ministry
and young diplomats will take part in the traditional annual ceremony.
As part
of the festivities for Diplomat’s Day, flowers will also be laid at memorial
plaques in the Foreign Ministry building. There are also plans to pay tribute
to the memories of Foreign Ministry employees who perished during World War II
or in the line of duty, or who fell victim to political repression.
There
will also be an exhibition, which this year is dedicated to the establishment
of the national diplomatic service after the October Revolution of 1917. The
display of documents will encompass the activities of the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Affairs before the USSR was formed in 1922.
A
traditional official meeting will take place on the occasion of Diplomat’s Day.
I would
like to add that at 11 am on February 8, as part of events for Diplomat’s Day,
a memorial plaque will be unveiled at the Russian Embassy in Abkhazia in memory
of our colleagues Dmitry and Olga Vishernev, who died in the line of duty in
September 2013.
We
invite the media to all the events held at the Foreign Ministry.
Council
of Young Diplomats holds gala event on Diplomat’s Day
At 7 pm
on February 8, the Foreign Ministry’s Council of Young Diplomats will hold an
informal meeting with the young employees of the Moscow diplomatic corps at the
Foreign Ministry’s GLAVUPDK (5 Ulofa Palme Street).
The
programme includes the presentation of the activities of the Council of Young
Diplomats, a review of the first Global Forum of Young Diplomats that was held
in Sochi in October 2017 on the sidelines of the World Festival of Youth and
Students, a discussion of the plans for the second Global Forum in 2018 and the
establishment of an international association of young diplomats and a Moscow
diplomatic club.
We
invite all journalists to attend the event. For accreditation call the Council
of Young Diplomats until 3 pm on February 7 at +7 (916) 487 43 54.
18th Winter
Diplomatic Games
On
February 10, Diplomat’s Day, the Moscow Country Club, an affiliate of GLAVUPDK,
will host the 18th Winter Diplomatic Games.
The
event will be attended by heads and employees of diplomatic missions accredited
in Russia, officials from the Russian Foreign Ministry and GLAVUPDK, as well as
by famous Russian athletes and cultural figures.
During
the event a news conference will be held with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of
Belgium Jean-Arthur Regibeau, and First Deputy Chair of the Committee on
International Affairs of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian
Federation, Olympic champion Svetlana Zhurova.
I would
like to explain why the news conference will be held with the Ambassador of the
Kingdom of Belgium in Moscow. The Moscow Country Club will receive the team and
representatives of the Belgian delegation that will arrive for the 2018 FIFA
World Club.
The
referee’s board will include celebrated Russian athletes: Olympic skating
champion Lyudmila Titova, Olympic bobsled champion Vladimir Kozlov and
biathlete Alexander Yelizarov, to name a few.
The
games will consist of competitions of about 40 teams of diplomatic missions in
six sports.
The
games will be crowned by a gala hockey match between the winner of the hockey
tournament and the team KomAr that will include Oleg Butman, Alexander
Mostovoy, Sergey Krestovsky, Kirill Andreyev, Pavel Trubiner, Vladislav
Karpovich and other Russian stars of sport and culture.
By
tradition, Moscow Country Club guests will be offered an interesting cultural
programme and a Russian food tasting session. We invite Russian and foreign
journalists to take part in the coverage of the event.
For more
information and accreditation procedures go to the GLAVUPDK website.
Events
at Foreign Missions section on the Foreign Ministry official website
I would
like to point out that the Foreign Ministry website (we will talk about this in
detail today) has an Events at Foreign Missions section. By request of our
embassies, we will find a special more convenient link, maybe even on the home
page, to make it easier to find. This section has been providing information
and photographic materials on the activities and events of our foreign missions
regularly for several years now. A large number of materials are published
daily, and even more materials will be dedicated to Diplomat’s Day. You can
find information there as well.
We will
certainly have a special section on the website which will be dedicated to our
professional day.
To be
continued...
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