Belarusian Foreign Ministry responded to the accusations of the Kiev authorities about the "knife in the back"
On the eve of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted the Ukrainian draft resolution on human rights in Crimea. Voted for 73 state, representatives of 23-ti countries opposed. Among the opponents of the adoption of the document was Belarus. On this occasion, the Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Irina Gerashchenko, stated that she regards the voting of Belarus as a “knife in the back”.
Mironchik noted that “there were four resolutions on violations of human rights, but Belarus wanted to pinch only one of them related to Ukraine.” According to him, “the position of Belarus in Ukraine has not changed one iota”.
“The question of the procedure for reviewing human rights issues in the UN lies in a completely different plane and, in our firm conviction, has nothing to do with the topic of Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” the diplomat explained.
He also called the mechanism for the adoption of "country" resolutions "destructive and unfair." "This is the path to nowhere," - said the representative of the Foreign Ministry.
This “practice developed during the Cold War years is imposed on the UN by individual countries exclusively to promote their own interests,” he believes.
“And this is especially evident in the situation when the international community has already developed a new procedure - the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council,” concluded Mironchik.
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