HRC ID on Ukraine Russian Federation Counsellor 08 January 2025
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HRC Interactive dialogue on Ukraine - 08 January 2025

SPEAKER 1: Ms. Nada Al-Nashif, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights (See PDF statement attached)

SPEAKER 2: Ms. Yevheniia Filipenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva

SPEAKER 3Mr. Evgeny USTINOV, First Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva




Human Rights Council interactive dialogue on the oral update by the High Commissioner on the findings of the OHCHR report on the situation of human rights in Ukraine 

Geneva, 8 January 2025, 15:00CET

Venue: Palais des Nations, Room XX, Geneva

Background information

In resolution 53/30 (14 July 2023), the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to present an oral update on the findings of each of the reports of the Office of the High Commissioner on the situation of human rights in Ukraine to the Human Rights Council at each of its sessions, until its fifty-ninth session, and before the end of 2023 and 2024, each to be followed by an interactive dialogue.

Teleprompter
Thank you.
I give the floor to the distinguished representative of the Russian Federation.
Thank
you President.
We fundamentally disagree with the methodology and content of the latest report.
We'd remind you that OHCHR is meant to report overall on numerous
human rights violations in Ukraine and not just obsess over one subject.
We categorically reject the reference in the
document of Crimea and new Russian regions.
Dear colleagues from OC,
if you're so desperate to talk about Russia,
then you should write about the daily shelling of Donetsk
and Belgorod of atrocities committed by Ukrainian thugs in Kursk,
terrorist acts on homes and various Russian regions.
However,
OHHR prefers not to do this,
hypocritically whitewashing the Kiev's crimes.
The OHR clearly doesn't want to speak about the
blatant discrimination against Russian and Russian speakers in Ukraine,
the harsh censorship,
elimination of dissenters,
uh,
extrajudicial executions,
arbitrary detention,
torture,
usurpation of power by Zelinsky,
the OHHR has not responded to the crimes committed by
Ukrainians against peaceful civilians in the Russian cities in the Donbass,
Kursk,
Belgorod,
and other oblasts of our country.
There's been no reaction from the high commissioner to repeated cases
of killing of Russian journalists at the hands of Ukrainian militants.
All this once again clearly shows the selective nature and
bias of the UN's pseudo human rights defender in chief.