Russian Foreign Minister leaves for UN Human Rights Committee session in Geneva

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is leaving for Geneva on Monday, where he will participate in the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Committee.

“At the elections to the Committee on November 12, 2013, Russia received support from 176 nations,” Russian Foreign Ministry said. “We consider it a high level of international support for our efforts aimed at establishment of a competitive dialogue and cooperation at the Committee.”

Russia is “concerned” about the situation at the Human Rights Committee which developed there while Russia was not there, the ministry said.

“We are concerned about the growing level of confrontation and politicisation, lower intergovernmental character of the Committee’s work, undermined trust to that importat UN body,” the ministry says. “Realistically, the Human Rights Committee repeats the history of the UN former human rights commission, which fate is well-known - it was dismissed back in 2006.”