03:47Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Headquarters in Geneva Gennady Gatilov said that the West was trying to 'distract' the attention of the international community from its own policies by using the human rights agenda 'as a pretext to interfere' in the internal affairs of other sovereign states, while speaking at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
"The so-called exemplary democracies of the collective West prefer to distract the attention of the Council from their own violations at the expense of overloading this body, the Human Rights Council, with situations in other states that, in their opinion, do not comply with their so-called human rights standards imposed on others. Over past decades, we have repeatedly witnessed numerous examples when the Western countries used human rights agenda as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states, impose illegitimate unilateral coercive measures and to put pressure on certain rogue states," he alleged.
Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN office in Geneva Haydar Ali Ahmad said the session would help counter attempts by Western countries to impose the 'so-called rule-based order', claiming they used the human rights agenda as a 'tool to achieve [their] narrow interest[s]'.
In turn, Grigory Lukyantsev, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for multilateral co-operation on human rights, reported numerous 'manifestations of Russophobia' in Western countries and accused them of 'falsifying history' of World War II and revising its 'outcomes'.
"The activities of nurturing neo-Nazi sentiment are linked to another important conclusion, namely the issue of falsifying history. Particularly noteworthy are the efforts of Western countries and their allies to rewrite the history of World War II and revise its outcomes," Lukyantsev said.
"After February 2022, we have seen a clear trend towards a worsening of the human rights situation in Western countries. Because, let's say, if previously certain manifestations of Russophobia were rather isolated, then, as the previous Polish Prime Minister [Mateusz Morawiecki] rightly pointed out, Russophobia has become a mainstream in the West," he added.
The 56th session of the HRC takes place between June 18 and July 12 2024.
West tries to distract from own record by pointing to human rights violations elsewhere - Russian permanent representative to UN in Geneva
Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Headquarters in Geneva Gennady Gatilov said that the West was trying to 'distract' the attention of the international community from its own policies by using the human rights agenda 'as a pretext to interfere' in the internal affairs of other sovereign states, while speaking at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
"The so-called exemplary democracies of the collective West prefer to distract the attention of the Council from their own violations at the expense of overloading this body, the Human Rights Council, with situations in other states that, in their opinion, do not comply with their so-called human rights standards imposed on others. Over past decades, we have repeatedly witnessed numerous examples when the Western countries used human rights agenda as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states, impose illegitimate unilateral coercive measures and to put pressure on certain rogue states," he alleged.
Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN office in Geneva Haydar Ali Ahmad said the session would help counter attempts by Western countries to impose the 'so-called rule-based order', claiming they used the human rights agenda as a 'tool to achieve [their] narrow interest[s]'.
In turn, Grigory Lukyantsev, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for multilateral co-operation on human rights, reported numerous 'manifestations of Russophobia' in Western countries and accused them of 'falsifying history' of World War II and revising its 'outcomes'.
"The activities of nurturing neo-Nazi sentiment are linked to another important conclusion, namely the issue of falsifying history. Particularly noteworthy are the efforts of Western countries and their allies to rewrite the history of World War II and revise its outcomes," Lukyantsev said.
"After February 2022, we have seen a clear trend towards a worsening of the human rights situation in Western countries. Because, let's say, if previously certain manifestations of Russophobia were rather isolated, then, as the previous Polish Prime Minister [Mateusz Morawiecki] rightly pointed out, Russophobia has become a mainstream in the West," he added.
The 56th session of the HRC takes place between June 18 and July 12 2024.
Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Headquarters in Geneva Gennady Gatilov said that the West was trying to 'distract' the attention of the international community from its own policies by using the human rights agenda 'as a pretext to interfere' in the internal affairs of other sovereign states, while speaking at the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
"The so-called exemplary democracies of the collective West prefer to distract the attention of the Council from their own violations at the expense of overloading this body, the Human Rights Council, with situations in other states that, in their opinion, do not comply with their so-called human rights standards imposed on others. Over past decades, we have repeatedly witnessed numerous examples when the Western countries used human rights agenda as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states, impose illegitimate unilateral coercive measures and to put pressure on certain rogue states," he alleged.
Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN office in Geneva Haydar Ali Ahmad said the session would help counter attempts by Western countries to impose the 'so-called rule-based order', claiming they used the human rights agenda as a 'tool to achieve [their] narrow interest[s]'.
In turn, Grigory Lukyantsev, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for multilateral co-operation on human rights, reported numerous 'manifestations of Russophobia' in Western countries and accused them of 'falsifying history' of World War II and revising its 'outcomes'.
"The activities of nurturing neo-Nazi sentiment are linked to another important conclusion, namely the issue of falsifying history. Particularly noteworthy are the efforts of Western countries and their allies to rewrite the history of World War II and revise its outcomes," Lukyantsev said.
"After February 2022, we have seen a clear trend towards a worsening of the human rights situation in Western countries. Because, let's say, if previously certain manifestations of Russophobia were rather isolated, then, as the previous Polish Prime Minister [Mateusz Morawiecki] rightly pointed out, Russophobia has become a mainstream in the West," he added.
The 56th session of the HRC takes place between June 18 and July 12 2024.