The Russian Federation does not renounce its international obligations in the field of preventing torture, says Maria Zakharova's interpretation in connection with Russia's withdrawal from the European Convention against Torture on November 1. "Russia has assumed the corresponding obligations at a higher universal level: provisions are included in both the 1984 Convention Against Torture and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."

The Russian Federation does not renounce its international obligations in the field of preventing torture, says Maria Zakharova's interpretation in connection with Russia's withdrawal from the European Convention against Torture on November 1. "Russia has assumed the corresponding obligations at a higher universal level: provisions are included in both the 1984 Convention Against Torture and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."