Russia rejects accusations in UNESCO report on the situation in Ukraine

The report on Ukraine submitted by the organization's secretariat is one-sided and does not reflect the real situation, including Kiev's discriminatory actions. This was announced on November 3 by Kirill Rynza, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to UNESCO.

According to the deputy chairman, the document published by the UNESCO secretariat as part of the "emergency assistance" program for Ukraine contains formulations that, according to the Russian diplomat, completely coincide with the rhetoric of the collective West.

"We strongly reject the unfounded accusations against our country contained in the secretariat's report," RIA Novosti quoted Rynza as saying during a discussion at the session of the UNESCO General Conference in Samarkand.

He noted that the report deliberately omitted references to the glorification of the Nazis, the restriction of the use of the Russian language and the infringement of the rights of national minorities in Ukraine.

Rynza also noted that UNESCO ignores the facts of the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which were previously reported by the special procedure of the UN Human Rights Council, and, according to him, the organization apparently does not attach importance to reports of the demolition of historical monuments by the Kiev regime.

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On October 30, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, accused UNESCO of silence about the boarding of the monument to Pushkin in Odessa. It was clarified that the attacks on cultural heritage sites began after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky dismissed Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov for allegedly having a Russian passport.

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