2⃣0️⃣ August marks 2 years from the date of the Russian Journalist Daria Dugina killing by Ukrainian Special Services.
📍Despite #UNESCO General Conference & Executive Board tasking to "condemn killing & phisical violence against journalists without distinction" the Director General A.Azoulay did not condemn this crime.
☝️ Absence of reaction of Specialized International Agences generates impunity for crimes against journalists.
Kiev continues to pursue and kill Russian journalists in violation of its international obligations.
📢 We demand that information about the killing of D.Dugina and other Russian journalists by Kiev be included in the DG report to the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication #IPDC.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
📍Despite #UNESCO General Conference & Executive Board tasking to "condemn killing & phisical violence against journalists without distinction" the Director General A.Azoulay did not condemn this crime.
☝️ Absence of reaction of Specialized International Agences generates impunity for crimes against journalists.
Kiev continues to pursue and kill Russian journalists in violation of its international obligations.
📢 We demand that information about the killing of D.Dugina and other Russian journalists by Kiev be included in the DG report to the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication #IPDC.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
🎙️Statement of Permanent Delegate of Russia, Mr. Rinat Alyautdinov at the Plenary session of 220th session of the UNESCO Executive Board:
📍Russia continues to make a practical contribution to the international humanitarian cooperation, in particular, it finances the largest in the framework of the Organization the UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in the Basic Sciences. The third award ceremony of the Prize is next in line.
📍In 2024 as part of the International Programme for the Development of Communication #IPDC, we signed an agreement on a voluntary Russian contribution of $250,000 for the projects in Africa.
📍In July, an international conference on multilingualism was held in St. Petersburg, which became the largest event of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages this year.
👉🏻Read the speech in full
📍Russia continues to make a practical contribution to the international humanitarian cooperation, in particular, it finances the largest in the framework of the Organization the UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in the Basic Sciences. The third award ceremony of the Prize is next in line.
📍In 2024 as part of the International Programme for the Development of Communication #IPDC, we signed an agreement on a voluntary Russian contribution of $250,000 for the projects in Africa.
📍In July, an international conference on multilingualism was held in St. Petersburg, which became the largest event of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages this year.
👉🏻Read the speech in full
🎙 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.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the report by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity for 2022-2023
💬 On December 13, in Paris, the report by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity for 2022-2023, which deliberately ignored the facts of targeted killings of Russian journalists by the Kiev regime, was not approved during the resumed meeting of the 34th session of the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO's International Programme for Development and Communication (#IPDC).
For the first time in the history of IPDC, UNESCO's main biennial document on the safety of journalists and impunity for crimes against them was not approved, but only taken note of.
The Intergovernmental Council of the Programme took this decision not by consensus, as in previous years, but by vote. Only 14 countries, representing mainly the ‘collective West’ and its associates, voted for, while the remaining 21 abstained or voted against.
👉 Thus, the reliability of the data presented in the report has been called into question, which no longer allows it to be perceived as a reliable source of information on the global situation with security of journalists.
🇷🇺 Russia has rejected point blank any form of approval of the document that grossly distorts the real situation in the safety of journalists and, for obvious political reasons, ignores the brutal killings of Russian correspondents by the Kiev regime. We proceed from the fact that this text is in fact a source of misinformation in the area of media workers safety.
Meanwhile, we note that the report was prepared using a non-transparent methodology that was not approved by anyone. This procedure, developed in private by the Secretariat, gave priority to information and opinions from NGOs rather than Member States, which undermines the very intergovernmental nature of UNESCO. In the process of reviewing the scandalous draft report, it emerged that the problem was systemic and that it was also faced by several states of the Global South whose official data on media killings were ignored in the document. <...>
The broad wave of indignation among the professional journalist community also made it possible to draw attention to the problem of arbitrariness in the work of the UNESCO Secretariat and to prevent the approval of the document that deliberately distorts the reality in this area. The open letter from the Union of Journalists of Russia and the Union of Journalists of Moscow to the Director-General of UNESCO alone was signed by more than a hundred media outlets and their associations not only from Russia but also from abroad. <...>
🤝 We thank all those who have shown concern and helped to achieve a triumph of justice through their actions.
We believe that such developments were a serious blow at Audrey Azoulay’s reputation and caused a substantive damage to the UNESCO Secretariat headed by her. The countries of the “collective West” have equally discredited themselves by demonstrating to the rest of the world their real commitment to protecting the safety of journalists and their overall level of respect for human life. The Global South has seen for itself the value of their empty slogans about media pluralism and freedom of speech.
The Russian side is not going to condone the continued preparation of such pseudo statistic reports and, in general, corrupt practices, to meet the interests of a narrow group of countries, by the organisation which is a part of the United Nations. The entire set of accumulated problems in UNESCO's information and communication sector will be examined in detail at the forthcoming meetings of its governing bodies.
☝️ We will consistently stand for the principles provided in the UN and UNESCO charters, which are a cornerstone of international cooperation and unite like-minded Global South countries that oppose the imposition of the notorious “rules-based world order.”
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💬 On December 13, in Paris, the report by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity for 2022-2023, which deliberately ignored the facts of targeted killings of Russian journalists by the Kiev regime, was not approved during the resumed meeting of the 34th session of the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO's International Programme for Development and Communication (#IPDC).
For the first time in the history of IPDC, UNESCO's main biennial document on the safety of journalists and impunity for crimes against them was not approved, but only taken note of.
The Intergovernmental Council of the Programme took this decision not by consensus, as in previous years, but by vote. Only 14 countries, representing mainly the ‘collective West’ and its associates, voted for, while the remaining 21 abstained or voted against.
👉 Thus, the reliability of the data presented in the report has been called into question, which no longer allows it to be perceived as a reliable source of information on the global situation with security of journalists.
🇷🇺 Russia has rejected point blank any form of approval of the document that grossly distorts the real situation in the safety of journalists and, for obvious political reasons, ignores the brutal killings of Russian correspondents by the Kiev regime. We proceed from the fact that this text is in fact a source of misinformation in the area of media workers safety.
Meanwhile, we note that the report was prepared using a non-transparent methodology that was not approved by anyone. This procedure, developed in private by the Secretariat, gave priority to information and opinions from NGOs rather than Member States, which undermines the very intergovernmental nature of UNESCO. In the process of reviewing the scandalous draft report, it emerged that the problem was systemic and that it was also faced by several states of the Global South whose official data on media killings were ignored in the document. <...>
The broad wave of indignation among the professional journalist community also made it possible to draw attention to the problem of arbitrariness in the work of the UNESCO Secretariat and to prevent the approval of the document that deliberately distorts the reality in this area. The open letter from the Union of Journalists of Russia and the Union of Journalists of Moscow to the Director-General of UNESCO alone was signed by more than a hundred media outlets and their associations not only from Russia but also from abroad. <...>
🤝 We thank all those who have shown concern and helped to achieve a triumph of justice through their actions.
We believe that such developments were a serious blow at Audrey Azoulay’s reputation and caused a substantive damage to the UNESCO Secretariat headed by her. The countries of the “collective West” have equally discredited themselves by demonstrating to the rest of the world their real commitment to protecting the safety of journalists and their overall level of respect for human life. The Global South has seen for itself the value of their empty slogans about media pluralism and freedom of speech.
The Russian side is not going to condone the continued preparation of such pseudo statistic reports and, in general, corrupt practices, to meet the interests of a narrow group of countries, by the organisation which is a part of the United Nations. The entire set of accumulated problems in UNESCO's information and communication sector will be examined in detail at the forthcoming meetings of its governing bodies.
☝️ We will consistently stand for the principles provided in the UN and UNESCO charters, which are a cornerstone of international cooperation and unite like-minded Global South countries that oppose the imposition of the notorious “rules-based world order.”
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