Press conference by Sergey Lavrov after the SCO Foreign Ministers Council, Cholpon-Ata, 24 July 2026

Продуктивный СМИД ШОС как подготовка к саммиту в Бишкеке.

Lavrov opens that the SCO foreign ministers' meeting has finished productively as preparation for the autumn Bishkek summit. Leader drafts cover new security centres and partner reform; sectoral papers on energy, AI, health and more are expected by the summit.

Закончилось заседание Совета министров иностранных дел … Поработали продуктивно.

The meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers has finished … We worked productively.

Это часть подготовки к саммиту ШОС, которая состоится в Бишкеке этой осенью.

This is part of preparation for the SCO summit that will take place in Bishkek this autumn.

Новые центры по вызовам и наркотикам; единый статус «партнёры ШОС».

Documents envisage a universal centre against new challenges and threats and a centre against narcotics crimes. Dialogue partners and observers are to become a single "SCO partners" category covering seventeen non-member states alongside ten members.

Вместо партнёров по диалогу и наблюдателей будет теперь единая категория партнёры ШОС.

Instead of dialogue partners and observers there will now be a single category of SCO partners.

Принципиальная оценка международной обстановки.

A joint foreign ministers' statement gives a clear, principled read of the international situation and tasks aligned with prior leaders' decisions.

Принято совместное заявление министров иностранных дел, которое чётко и принципиально оценивает ситуацию на международной арене.

A joint statement of the foreign ministers has been adopted that clearly and on principle assesses the situation in the international arena.

Углубление союзничества и стратегического партнёрства.

On Kyrgyzstan's thirty-fifth independence anniversary, Lavrov sees only deeper alliance and strategic partnership across defence, security, foreign-policy coordination and economic-investment tracks, as directed by the presidents.

Углубление нашего союзничества, стратегического партнёрства во всех областях.

Deepening our alliance and strategic partnership in all areas.

ШОС — центр многополярного мира; 27 стран, 40%+ населения.

Asked if the SCO is a centre of the multipolar world, Lavrov answers yes. The twenty-seven-country family represents more than 40 percent of population and over a third of the world economy, with rising interest from outsiders seeking partner status.

★ Multipolarity Является ли … одним из центров многополярного мира? Ответ дан. … Конечно, он укрепляется.

Is it one of the centres of the multipolar world? The answer is given. … Of course it is strengthening.

Провал — не на стороне России, работавшей с предложениями Трампа.

On Rubio's line that Anchorage failed because Ukrainians disagree, Lavrov asks who failed. Russia worked from US proposals approved by Trump; Putin had doubts then agreed. Trump called the package partly compromise and said Zelensky would follow — which did not happen. Lavrov cites Trump's post-Alaska praise that almost everything was settled with a basis remaining.

Насчёт того, что … договорённости провалились, надо … понять, кто конкретно провалился.

As for the claim that the understandings failed, one must understand who exactly failed.

Если есть предложение, есть согласие, то, наверное, … согласованные результаты были.

If there is a proposal and there is agreement, then presumably there were coordinated results.

Игнор людьми в Крыму, Донбассе, Новороссии; цели будут достигнуты.

Failure is pinned on Ukraine's refusal and EU pressure on Washington after Alaska. A G7 declaration backed Ukraine's territorial integrity while ignoring people on large territories now within the Russian Federation — Crimea, Donbass, Novorossiya — whom Kyiv brands terrorists. Prefer political-diplomatic settlement, but goals will be achieved under all circumstances.

Мы предпочитаем … политико-дипломатическое урегулирование, но целей своих добьёмся при всех обстоятельствах.

We prefer a political-diplomatic settlement, but we will achieve our goals under all circumstances.

Накачка Киева оружием и американскими технологиями.

Rejection of American proposals is tied to massive arms and drone supplies enabling attacks on Russian civilians, with US intelligence, Starlink and battlefield high technology as key enablers.

Зеленскому накачивают оружие, ему в огромных количествах поставляют дроны.

Zelensky is being pumped full of weapons; drones are supplied to him in huge quantities.

Американцы предоставляют разведывательные данные, Starlink работает.

The Americans provide intelligence data; Starlink is operating.

Совесть чиста; задачи Президента будут выполнены.

"A guy's word": Russia said it and is ready. The other side's approach has shifted, but the tasks set by President Putin in June 2024 will be fulfilled.

Наша совесть чиста … пацан сказал — пацан сделал. Мы сказали, и мы готовы.

Our conscience is clean … a guy said it — a guy did it. We said it and we are ready.

Задачи, поставленные Путиным в июне двадцать четвёртого года … будут выполнены.

The tasks set by Putin in June twenty-four … will be fulfilled.