45 countries of the world and the European Union condemned Russia for organizing a meeting of the UN Security Council regarding the alleged legal grounds for the abduction of children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
This is stated in a joint statement.
"Today, the Russian Federation is once again
abusing the rights and privileges of a permanent member of the UN Security Council in order to spread disinformation
about the abductions and illegal forced deportations of thousands of Ukrainian children organized by it," the text of the document reads.
The published statement notes that numerous reliable sources, such as the International Criminal Court, academic institutes, mass media and independent non-governmental organizations, testify to the illegal removal of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
"We unreservedly condemn the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, including, in particular,
the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children
, as well as other brutal violations against children committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. No amount of disinformation spread by the Russian Federation can refute the truth or to protect people from responsibility for these crimes," the authors of the statement summarized.
This statement was signed by:
Andorra, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Great Britain, USA and EU.
Statement on behalf of: pic.twitter.com/kcicaAwx5s
— Canada Mission UN #StandWithUkraine (@CanadaUN) April 5, 2023
We will remind, on April 1, Russia began to chair the UN Security Council.
This fact was criticized by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, stressing that "terrorists must lose, must be responsible for terror, and not preside anywhere."
And the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, reminded that Russia's membership in the UN Security Council is illegal, so the country has no right to preside there.
Note that, according to data as of March 28, the Russians illegally removed more than 19,500 children from Ukraine.
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