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Russia organizes a meeting at the United Nations on deported children and protests
“Moscow used its rotating presidency of the UN Security Council to organize an informal meeting on Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia, defending itself against a charge that the International Criminal Court contested as a war crime.” For this reason, diplomatic representatives of the USA and Great Britain, along with representatives of other countries, left the courtroom while the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova Belova, spoke via video link, who has been charged by the CPI and is the recipient of an arrest warrant. Lvova-Belova argued that Moscow is ready to cooperate with the reunification of Ukrainian children with their families. “We have no doubt that this is a campaign to smear our country,” he said.
Beijing, today Macron and von der Leyen’s meeting with Xi Jinping
French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will try to make Europe’s voice heard on the conflict in Ukraine in Beijing during a meeting with Xi Jinping, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, scheduled for today. The Chinese president is scheduled to receive the two leaders in the late afternoon at the People’s Palace in Beijing. In recent weeks, international pressure has increased on China to participate in the peace process in Ukraine. Although Beijing officially declares itself neutral, Xi Jinping has never condemned the Russian invasion and has never spoken on the phone with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. Instead, he recently went to Moscow to reaffirm his alliance with the Russian president
United Nations: The United States and Britain leave the Security Council while Russia speaks
US and UK representatives to the UN stood up and left the Security Council session as Russia’s envoy for children’s rights, Maria Lvova Belova, spoke via video link, to which an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for War Crimes had reached. The United Kingdom and the United States also blocked broadcasts on the UN channel of the informal meeting held to talk about Ukraine. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield explained that the decision to boycott the online broadcast was made in order not to give the Russian actress “an international platform from which to spread disinformation and attempt to defend her horrific actions in Ukraine”. In protest, Albania and Malta left the courtroom
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