Britain has banned the U.N. live broadcast of Wednesday’s informal Security Council meeting on Ukraine, where Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, sought by the ICC for war crimes, will speak.
Russia said Tuesday that Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova would remotely join the “evacuating minors from danger zone” conference. Livestreaming requires 15 Security Council members.
Putin and Lvova-Belova were detained this month by the Hague-based International Criminal Court for unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children and transferring Ukrainians to Russia when Russia invaded on Feb. 24, 2022.
“She should not be granted a U.N. platform to peddle misinformation,” a British UN office representative in New York said. The Hague can explain.
Russia confesses to taking hundreds of Ukrainian war orphans.
“Moscow will now ban U.N. webcasts of all comparable sessions claiming ‘U.K. censorship clause’,” tweeted Russia’s Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy.
Last month, Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters that Wednesday’s informal Security Council meeting was scheduled before the ICC announcement and did not dispute Putin and Lvova-accusations’s. Belova’s
Diplomats said U.N. webcasts seldom cease. China canceled last month’s U.N. broadcast of a U.S.-convened informal Security Council discussion on North Korean human rights.
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