22:54, a, including the solution of humanitarian problems, including uh, the restoration of economic infrastructure, at least elementary necessary for the return of refugees, including the work of the constitutional committee, which has now begun its regular session in geneva and which, according to the first estimates, opened u on a very positive note and and including, of course, the position of syria in the arab world. and we reaffirmed our conviction of the need to return the syrian arab republic to the league of arab states. and we see an understanding of this need among our partners in the gulf, they talked a lot about palestinian israeli affairs, but that the peace process, but sees a direct dialogue between palestine and israel, has stopped and is in a

dead end, which undermines efforts to resolve the palestinian problem by creating the state of palestine in accordance with the decisions of the un security website in accordance with the arab peace initiative, which was put forward by saudi arabia 20 years ago and we expressed our concern the fact that now in general the concept of two state solutions is being seriously tested, and russia and our partners in the gulf categorically disagree with such an approach, which is obvious as a very serious and explosive escalation. in this region, and we were talking about yemen where, and recently there have been some positive developments, primarily due to the initiatives that are being promoted by saudi arabia, as well as the united arab emirates mana other countries, uh, the

cooperation council for the arab states of the gulf, we welcomed the creation of a governing presidential council welcomed the two-month truce that has been observed recently and which expires the day after tomorrow with us uh, the common hope that this truce will be extended for at least another 2 months and in the meantime the political process. and we will try to launch with the help of e on e through the special representative of the secretary general for yemeni affairs. in libya, the task of organizing a national dialogue is also acute. and what's more, the dialogue which would include all the political forces of the country. now there, in fact, two authorities have been established. and what, to a certain extent, we associate with the insufficiently active and insufficiently, and such a

constructive and inventive role of the united nations organization, is already reflected by the months-long absence of the appointed consent of the security council, he is the special representative of the secretary general. the need to expedite such an appointment was expressed by the security council in a recently adopted resolution, and our colleagues, today's discussions, but support such an approach. and of course, we talked about the persian gulf and relationships. e between the arab monarchies and the islamic republic. iran russia has been promoting the concept of collective security in this most important region of the world for quite a long time, and there are discussions around this concept , including last fall, we organized on the basis of the institute of oriental studies of the russian academy of sciences. i will answer expert political scientists of all

countries of the coastal countries of the bays of a number of neighboring states, including both arabs and iranians. it was a very useful discussion. as a result, useful interesting recommendations were made, which we are now summarizing and we want to hold another such political science expert event in the near future, which will obviously help create conditions for transferring this dialogue already to the interstate level. there was a lot of talk about the need to continue and intensify the fight against terrorism, and especially extremist ideology, and in this sense expressed a general positive assessment of the efforts to promote the dialogue of civilization, and interfaith dialogue, including within the framework of the strategic vision group, which was established

quite a long time ago between russia and the organization of islamic cooperation, and this strategic vision group recently held its regular meeting in the capital of tatarstan, kazan, at the fields of this event also took place, e, the celebration of the thousandth century of the adoption of islam in the volga bulgaria. with regard to our bilateral practical projects with colleagues from cooperation council of the arab states of the gulf, and we stressed the need to build up economic ties; humanitarian investment cooperation also spoke about the need to intensify the work of the working groups and business councils that had been created and operated in principle, but took a short break during the pandemic, and today we met with secretary, and

the gulf cooperation council and during this meeting. we coordinated the work as soon as possible. e joint plan actions. uh, until 2025 between russia and the cooperation council in our fields. uh, today's meetings took place my meetings. yesterday we had detailed talks with the countries participating in the cooperation council with the minister of foreign affairs. saudi arabia and we noted a steady growth in trade turnover last year, it grew by 35% practically e, the next meeting of the intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation is planned and the russian direct investment fund is interacting well and the public investment fund of saudi arabia, which have already mastered

two and a half billion dollars within the framework of a joint platform, similar, and similar platform projects between the russian direct investment fund and its foreign partners have been created and are successfully operating with the united arab emirates with kureit, and with representatives of these countries with the minister of foreign affairs of the emirates fractors. today i also led separate meetings, during which we reaffirmed the focus on the global development of our partnerships, including in the new conditions that are emerging, but in the global economy, but in the context here. etiquette for our western colleagues, this is, in fact, how our short very very intensive visit ended. if you have any questions i am at your service. they are being sold and how russia is to blame for

these accusations by the west, as well as with accusations of us in other mortal sins. uh, in security after our visit. i talked about this in detail at the press conference. today also spoke in detail about what is actually happening in our colleagues from the site of cooperation between the arab states of the gulf is quite understandable. and, by the way, president putin has publicly spoken about this more than once. he discussed this situation with the leaders of france, germany, and turkey . over the past few days, telephone conversations have amounted to no problems with regard to the russian federation. there

is no problem with ensuring a stable supply of world markets with grain, first of all, in the lack of free exit from ukrainian ports through minefields that were planted by ukrainian military personnel. after these minefields in international waters, russian military sailors. daily. for several weeks now, humanitarian corridors have been announced for the free exit of ships that remain locked in the ports of ukraine due to the mine threat and cannot a leave from there and deliver the relevant goods, the relevant cargo, a to the ports of destination, and in parallel there is a problem with the fact that, in addition to in addition to ukrainian grain, which is now locked up because of such a policy. the regime and this regime must be influenced in order to

eliminate the mine threat, and in parallel, uh, there are uh, problems with the export of russian grain. although the west, uh, very loudly reminds that grain is not subject to sanctions. for some reason, they are bashfully silent about the fact that ships that carry russian grain and do not accept them fell under the sanctions, and in foreign ports in european ports they are not insured a and in principle, all the logistics financial chains that are associated with the supply of grain to the world market . they were, uh, under sanctions of our western. hey colleagues. and so, our proposal on how to unblock this situation is well known. and as a result of the conversation, with president erdogan, an agreement was reached that our turkish colleagues will try. to help organize the demining

of ukrainian ports in order to release from there, and taken hostage, in fact, ships with the necessary, developing countries cargo and agree that, uh, this is an operation, but it takes place without any attempts. e, create, strengthen, and the military potential of ukraine a and cause damage the russian federation, i will not go into details, the details will be discussed between the military, but between the specialists, and recently in russia there was a generality. secretary jung of the conference. he is a trade and development madam about whom on behalf of. e. antonio buterrasha, and on behalf of president putin, spoke with the first deputy prime minister of the russian federation andrey belousov, who explained in detail the logistics as well. i will repeat my favorite in order to solve this problem. once again with our

there are no obstacles on the side of any obstacles, all obstacles exist on the side of either the ukrainian authorities or those western countries that cover up any unacceptable and illegal actions of the kiev regime. such risks, of course, exist, otherwise what is required, and so categorically in a businesslike way, i would say the kiev regime from its western patrons. well, firstly, it already goes beyond all the limits of decency and diplomatic communication.