📢We draw the attention of #UNESCO Director-General A.Azoulay to another crime of Kiev regime against Russian journalists.
On 1️⃣7️⃣November, as a result of a Ukrainian drone strike in the Bolshesoldatsky district of the Kursk region, the editor-in-chief of the "Narodnaya Gazeta", Ms Yulia Kuznetsova, was killed and her colleague, a journalist, was wounded.
☝️We recall that in accordance with the decisions of the UNESCO Executive Board and General Conference, the Director-General is tasked to condemn killing of journalists "without distinction".
👉🏻A.Azoulay does not fulfill the mandate. The Director-General has not condemned the killings of Russian journalists in 2022-2024. According to her draft Report on the Safety of Journalists, not a single media representative was killed in Russia in 2022-2023. This is a blatant manifestation of bias and "double standards" incompatible with the duties of an international official!
📢We urge UNESCO Director-General to provide clarifications at the upcoming meeting of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (November 21-22, 2024).
On 1️⃣7️⃣November, as a result of a Ukrainian drone strike in the Bolshesoldatsky district of the Kursk region, the editor-in-chief of the "Narodnaya Gazeta", Ms Yulia Kuznetsova, was killed and her colleague, a journalist, was wounded.
☝️We recall that in accordance with the decisions of the UNESCO Executive Board and General Conference, the Director-General is tasked to condemn killing of journalists "without distinction".
👉🏻A.Azoulay does not fulfill the mandate. The Director-General has not condemned the killings of Russian journalists in 2022-2024. According to her draft Report on the Safety of Journalists, not a single media representative was killed in Russia in 2022-2023. This is a blatant manifestation of bias and "double standards" incompatible with the duties of an international official!
📢We urge UNESCO Director-General to provide clarifications at the upcoming meeting of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (November 21-22, 2024).
🎙 Permanent Delegate of Russia🇷🇺 to #UNESCO R.Alyautdinov in interview for TASS before opening of IPDC session:
📍Unleashed by the "West" confrontation with Russia has affected the Russian media and journalists who are killed with a microphone in their hands by Ukrainian terrorists.
📍UNESCO Secretariat, headed by the Director-General A.Azoulay, bypassed the principles of impartiality, prescribed by the UNESCO Constitution, came under the influence of the "West", and uses "double standards" while reacting to journalists' killings and oppression of the media.
📍This resulted in silencing Russian journalists' killings. The same "blindness" and "deafness" is manifested in relation to journalists killed in Gaza, Lebanon and other parts of the world.
📍The meeting of IPDC Intergovernmental Council is a good opportunity to discuss the accumulated problems in the field of media rights' protection.
📍The main task of Russian delegation is to protect the interests of Russian media and there can be no compromises.
📍Unleashed by the "West" confrontation with Russia has affected the Russian media and journalists who are killed with a microphone in their hands by Ukrainian terrorists.
📍UNESCO Secretariat, headed by the Director-General A.Azoulay, bypassed the principles of impartiality, prescribed by the UNESCO Constitution, came under the influence of the "West", and uses "double standards" while reacting to journalists' killings and oppression of the media.
📍This resulted in silencing Russian journalists' killings. The same "blindness" and "deafness" is manifested in relation to journalists killed in Gaza, Lebanon and other parts of the world.
📍The meeting of IPDC Intergovernmental Council is a good opportunity to discuss the accumulated problems in the field of media rights' protection.
📍The main task of Russian delegation is to protect the interests of Russian media and there can be no compromises.
🎙 Permanent Delegate of Russia to #UNESCO R.Alyautdinov at the opening of #IPDC Intergovernmental Council session in connection with France's refusal to issue visa to MFA🇷🇺 expert:
📍France uses visa procedures to restrict access of Russian representatives to official meetings. This is a gross violation by Paris of 1954 Agreement on UNESCO Headquarters, namely obligation to "allow representatives of Member States to enter its territory without delay and without charging for a visa".
📍We call on UNESCO Secretariat to finally take a decisive position and use all necessary measures within the framework of Agreement to resolve this unacceptable situation.
📍France uses visa procedures to restrict access of Russian representatives to official meetings. This is a gross violation by Paris of 1954 Agreement on UNESCO Headquarters, namely obligation to "allow representatives of Member States to enter its territory without delay and without charging for a visa".
📍We call on UNESCO Secretariat to finally take a decisive position and use all necessary measures within the framework of Agreement to resolve this unacceptable situation.
🎙 Permanent Delegate of Russia to #UNESCO R.Alyautdinov at #IPDC Intergovernmental Council:
📍In recent years, Russia has faced an unprecedented aggressive campaign aimed at total blocking the Russian media in the West in order to clean up information space from alternative points of view and impose censorship.
📍Western countries violate thus their international obligations.
📍Latvia staged a "trial" against many journalists.
📍Kiev regime launched a "hunt" against 🇷🇺media, introduced censorship, persecute journalists through extremist website "Mirotvorets". Ukrainian terrorists are purposefully killing our journalists.
📍We are outraged by absence of UNESCO Secretariat' reaction to oppression of 🇷🇺media and killing of 🇷🇺journalists. Director-General violates her mandate. This nullifies the values of #UNESCO, including combating discrimination & journalists' protection.
📍In recent years, Russia has faced an unprecedented aggressive campaign aimed at total blocking the Russian media in the West in order to clean up information space from alternative points of view and impose censorship.
📍Western countries violate thus their international obligations.
📍Latvia staged a "trial" against many journalists.
📍Kiev regime launched a "hunt" against 🇷🇺media, introduced censorship, persecute journalists through extremist website "Mirotvorets". Ukrainian terrorists are purposefully killing our journalists.
📍We are outraged by absence of UNESCO Secretariat' reaction to oppression of 🇷🇺media and killing of 🇷🇺journalists. Director-General violates her mandate. This nullifies the values of #UNESCO, including combating discrimination & journalists' protection.
🎙Permanent Delegate of Russia to #UNESCO R.Alyautdinov at #IPDC Intergovernmental Council:
📍Russia utterly rejects UNESCO Director-General’s report on Safety of Journalists that completely ignores killings of Russian journalists in 2022-2023.
📍In these 2 years alone, journalists D.Dugina, V.Tatarsky, O.Klokov, R.Zhuravlev, B.Maksudov were killed by Kiev regime. Information about their killings was transmitted to Secretariat via diplomatic channels.
📍Director-General’s report does not reflect real state of affairs about safety of journalists. It is based on distorted data, thus becoming a source of disinformation.
📍Director-General's selective approach in responding to journalists' killing is a violation of General Conference & Executive Board decisions to "condemn killing of journalists without distinction."
📍We call on #IPDC Member States to take decisive action aimed at countering Secretariat's voluntary actions discriminating some Member States what runs counter to ideals & principles of #UNESCO.
📍Russia utterly rejects UNESCO Director-General’s report on Safety of Journalists that completely ignores killings of Russian journalists in 2022-2023.
📍In these 2 years alone, journalists D.Dugina, V.Tatarsky, O.Klokov, R.Zhuravlev, B.Maksudov were killed by Kiev regime. Information about their killings was transmitted to Secretariat via diplomatic channels.
📍Director-General’s report does not reflect real state of affairs about safety of journalists. It is based on distorted data, thus becoming a source of disinformation.
📍Director-General's selective approach in responding to journalists' killing is a violation of General Conference & Executive Board decisions to "condemn killing of journalists without distinction."
📍We call on #IPDC Member States to take decisive action aimed at countering Secretariat's voluntary actions discriminating some Member States what runs counter to ideals & principles of #UNESCO.
🎙First Deputy Director-General of TASS Mikhail Gusman at IPDC Intergovernmental Council:
Absence of the names of Russian journalists killed in 2022-2023 in #UNESCO Director-General's report is unacceptable.
The death of journalists is a huge loss of the whole media community. It is unacceptable that the report does not mention the names of my colleagues, journalists from Russia.
💬I knew some of them personally. They were honest people, who were devoted to their profession.
Absence of the names of Russian journalists killed in 2022-2023 in #UNESCO Director-General's report is unacceptable.
The death of journalists is a huge loss of the whole media community. It is unacceptable that the report does not mention the names of my colleagues, journalists from Russia.
💬I knew some of them personally. They were honest people, who were devoted to their profession.
🎙Permanent Delegate of Russia to #UNESCO R.Alyautdinov in interview with Russian media following IPDC session:
📍Safety of journalists is a matter of concern for many delegations. The discussion was about killed Russian journalists and correspondents killed in Gaza & Lebanon.
📍Debate revealed a ridge between delegations of the "West" who try to impose notorious "rules based order" and the "Global South" who adhere to UNESCO Constitution and the Rules of Procedure.
📍Key outcome is that the Director-General's report on the safety of journalists has not been endorsed. The IPDC Council reached understanding of the "importance to include (in the report) information presented by Member States".
📍Safety of journalists is a matter of concern for many delegations. The discussion was about killed Russian journalists and correspondents killed in Gaza & Lebanon.
📍Debate revealed a ridge between delegations of the "West" who try to impose notorious "rules based order" and the "Global South" who adhere to UNESCO Constitution and the Rules of Procedure.
📍Key outcome is that the Director-General's report on the safety of journalists has not been endorsed. The IPDC Council reached understanding of the "importance to include (in the report) information presented by Member States".
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🎙Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the ambassadors' roundtable discussion on resolving the situation around Ukraine:
💬 #UNESCO Director-General #AAzoulay is a direct accomplice in the information war against the 🇷🇺 Russian Federation and against the truth at large.
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💬 #UNESCO Director-General #AAzoulay is a direct accomplice in the information war against the 🇷🇺 Russian Federation and against the truth at large.
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On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People the Permanent Delegation of Russia to #UNESCO would like to express our unwavering support to the Permanent Delegation of the State of Palestine and all Palestinians.
في اليوم الدولي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني، يود الوفد لروسيا لدى اليونسكو أن يعرب عن دعمه الثابت لوفد دولة فلسطين وجميع الفلسطينيين.
في اليوم الدولي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني، يود الوفد لروسيا لدى اليونسكو أن يعرب عن دعمه الثابت لوفد دولة فلسطين وجميع الفلسطينيين.
⚡️Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of 🇷🇺 to #UNESCO R.Alyautdinov received from the Director of the World Heritage Centre of the UNESCO Secretariat an official Certificate of inscription of the Russian site "Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake" on the World Heritage List.
📍 The decision to recognise the outstanding universal value of this Property for all humanity was adopted unanimously at the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi in July this year.
☝️Russia is an active and responsible State Party of the flagship UNESCO 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. 3️⃣3️⃣world heritage sites are located on the territory of our country.
📍 The decision to recognise the outstanding universal value of this Property for all humanity was adopted unanimously at the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi in July this year.
☝️Russia is an active and responsible State Party of the flagship UNESCO 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. 3️⃣3️⃣world heritage sites are located on the territory of our country.