Quote: Russia plans to raise the issue of the observance of human rights in the United Kingdom and Ukraine at the UN, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko said.
"It will be Britain at the first session and Ukraine at the next," Yakovenko said in an interview with the newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
Yakovenko was speaking about the countries for which Russia will prepare recommendations as a co-rapporteur of the Universal Periodic Review, whose first session opens in Geneva in April.
"The heads of state and government of the UN member-states reached the basic agreement in 2005 to restructure the human rights dimension of the United Nations. The UN Commission on Human Rights was not efficient enough," Yakovenko said.
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How can Russia even bring-up this question with their track record? Are they talking about the rights of Russian's in these countries? Has it slipped their minds how many Rich Russian's in both countries? At the same time they bring-up this issue with the UN, their record for human rights should also be brought for review.
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