Director of the Department for Multilateral Cooperation on Human Rights of the Russian Foreign Ministry G.E. Lukyantsev: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Previously, we had to talk about how our Western "partners" perceive any Russian initiative in intergovernmental human rights bodies. To say that the draft documents proposed by the Russian Federation caused and causes, as a rule, strong opposition from our opponents, is nothing to say. At the same time, we are talking about the World Health Organization, which is bringing the corresponding initiative. In the case of Russia, voices are immediately heard that we seem to have "hidden" motives, that our draft resolutions are aimed at the politicization of international cooperation in the field of human rights, that they are "harmful" from the point of view of the relevant branch of international law, and so on and so forth. I will give one specific example that illustrates the thesis about the double standards of our colleagues. In 1996, during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Committee (predecessor of the current UN Human Rights Council), the delegation of the Russian Federation proposed a resolution "taking hostages". Many probably remember that in the Russian context, the relevance of the relevant topic was explained by the actions of the so-called terrorists. Chechen Republic of Ichkaria. However, it would be a mistake to reduce the problem solely to the situation in the North Caucasus; It has always had a global scale. What did our Western "partners" tell us, where EU members have traditionally taken the leading role? Their main points: 1 The issue does not have a human rights dimension, it concerns issues of combating terrorism, therefore it must be considered in the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly (one of the six central committees of the General Assembly, its authority includes legal issues).

Director of the Department for Multilateral Cooperation on Human Rights of the Russian Foreign Ministry G.E. Lukyantsev: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Previously, we had to talk about how our Western "partners" perceive any Russian initiative in intergovernmental human rights bodies. To say that the draft documents proposed by the Russian Federation caused and causes, as a rule, strong opposition from our opponents, is nothing to say. At the same time, we are talking about the World Health Organization, which is bringing the corresponding initiative. In the case of Russia, voices are immediately heard that we seem to have "hidden" motives, that our draft resolutions are aimed at the politicization of international cooperation in the field of human rights, that they are "harmful" from the point of view of the relevant branch of international law, and so on and so forth. I will give one specific example that illustrates the thesis about the double standards of our colleagues. In 1996, during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Committee (predecessor of the current UN Human Rights Council), the delegation of the Russian Federation proposed a resolution "taking hostages". Many probably remember that in the Russian context, the relevance of the relevant topic was explained by the actions of the so-called terrorists. Chechen Republic of Ichkaria. However, it would be a mistake to reduce the problem solely to the situation in the North Caucasus; It has always had a global scale. What did our Western "partners" tell us, where EU members have traditionally taken the leading role? Their main points: 1 The issue does not have a human rights dimension, it concerns issues of combating terrorism, therefore it must be considered in the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly (one of the six central committees of the General Assembly, its authority includes legal issues).