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biased in just another round of the russian american battle yet the foreign ministry plans to publish such reports every year just like the u.s. department so can the russians human rights watch out for really become common practice and all of these kind of reports reliable source of information or a mere diplomatic trick for asking the foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights democracy the rule of law becomes. the world's most well known governmental human rights report is the us department of state it covers the record of the most united nations members except the us and usually criticizes many governments for injustice and violations the first country to respond to the american criticism was china which has been reporting on human rights us since nine hundred ninety eight the russian report focuses on the us today mentioning the one tunnel bay prison and violation of the rights of american

muslims it also covers the european union nato members and georgia. i want to thank you very much for being with us hello thinks well first of all. the question about your current position about. the job you here are keeping the position of the spur of a special envoy within the foreign ministry was established just this year or so or pleasure last year last year when you factor in here a couple of months ago right so whose decision was it why was it decided in the kremlin in the foreign ministry or. well. has been established as you put it last year it was. more than a couple of months it was established last april actually and this almost a year time flies and the decision has been taken by the russian leadership obviously and of course. by the leadership of the foreign minister mr lavrov

and the idea was kind of. multi forward to profile even more our country russia in the field of human rights democracy and rule of law and those are very much interconnected in the interlinked elements obviously and spheres. to provide for additional opportunities for dialogue with our partners and when i say partners i mean they're quite a broad spectrum of those. countries. international going to lesions and institutions non-governmental institutions. and also of course to mourn it are the first and foremost they will see to monitor the situation in the field of human rights democracy the rule of law. abroad and it means in the world. the underlying idea is their. human rights are universal this is the general recognition of the common recognition it's rained in the universal declaration and

in the many other documents in common and some on human rights it means their human rights are for everybody. all people have the right to enjoy his liberty to enjoy a human race on the on the other hand all states have to. implement certain certain standards what a. i your day to day activities i mean other than writing this annual report will we be hearing from you some comments i made you world events considering human rights are well i believe they're. already hearing it's not my first name on the russia today and is a bit of a back and i have already had an opportunity to provide my some of my assessments on russia today and they said here in spotlight there is absolutely and hopefully the first but not last time but yes i've been commenting on different issues and situations in the humanitarian and human red fields on

a regular basis sometimes on a daily basis but on a regular basis and we. are putting some of the. commons on the ministers websites or they're easy to access and. also obviously but dissipating in there in the drafting. of reactions by the foreign ministry to do on the different issues which are within my my my scope and. you mentioned reports the report to hopefully to become annual. but it doesn't mean that we will wait for another year or two to. share some of our assessments and i'm sorry asians on how the human race situation develops in the world and we have different channels have been in there and this is my part of my job description i've been

there and i am in the regular touch with the russian and then foreign journalists and. with a definitely. with our media. journalists who read and journalists who are now on t.v. definitely there are different channels that we. think that it is absolutely important to monitor how the situation develops because quite a number of issues in the field of human rights in the field of human rights are common issues. i would say even ubiquitous sometimes and not a single country in the world today is immune to those issues let's mention some of them for instance racism racial discrimination. discrimination of ethnic minorities you know what we're. all arounds in abroad sounds so it provides a great opportunity for cooperation well let's take

a look at the history of international human rights reports here's a story from spotlight again. one of the first ever reports and human rights was produced fifty years ago by amnesty international the named in sixty's so thank you one commission on human rights becoming active in condemning human violations which were also documented in an annual report ten years later another international organization joined in it was human rights watch despite so many international bodies doing the job the u.s. state department decided on the issue in itself and he writes from. in menton seventy six annual document often contains scathing and now it says on abuses originally in the u.s.s.r. and later russia another country highly criticized in the u.s. state department reports china decided to strike back and came up with its own

account of human rights violations in one to ninety eight russia has always alleged the u.s. state department report was biased and question the right of any nation to bear judge however december two thousand and eleven so russia's foreign ministry issued its own report on human rights. well the us department of state the united states was criticized criticized by the soviet union by rochelle a later for these reports of this kind we said i remember that america's but positioning itself as a judge for other country for their situation human rights so why did russia decide to follow this example well first of all. i'm working in the in the foreign ministry of the russian federation and definitely as our minister sergey lavrov actually put it yesterday during his press conference on the. year

two thousand and eleven. our foreign policy is not an ideological foreign policy and it is. very much preventing one and. that's why when we criticize we do not criticize our way the logical. for their logical reasons we have we do. observe and one of their how the situation stands in the united states and some other countries we do. i would lie on certain issues which they have and they do have certain certain problems. we and it's very important we be using ourselves not just on some conjectures we're basing l. cells on the assessments given by pretty much authority if international is admitted of but a rush as we remember it the foreign ministry for one has reacted pretty angrily

every time we were sharply criticized in reports of this kind of specially in the united states report for the situation in brighton russia we did give them and they're angry reaction so what kind of reaction do you expect it to your report which is also pretty critical. well of the wall. you mentioned. and your reaction well we do react in a negative sense sometimes media you can say angrily when criticism of our foreign policy will come to see you know our practices and situation in russia or in the field of human rights ease a biased one when it is a strange one and unfortunately in the in the state department's reports. quite a number of. assessments and conclusions are falling into this category

and that's why we have to react but we do not react angrily to any criticism which is a constructive one because the issues do exist and i would country the problems do exist and we are we are now leadership is absolutely right to do it need it but efforts are being done and when the do to take a leadership is when efforts are not when efforts are underestimated then definitely we have we have to point to point to it and the reaction to our report. let's. maybe distinguish between two sorts of reactions or reactions one is official reaction and we have heard official reaction from. department of state which are mentioned in the form demanded states from finland from some other countries and i must say that there was a reaction was there as official it would have been pretty much. i can see no way constructive or maybe you reserved were not definitive

negative. although i would expect some of those counters which have been mentioned in our reports and maybe not to do governments not to be very much happy with some some provisions of the report well you talking about the official initial reaction we'll talk about the other official reaction to your particular in a minute after we take a break just a reminder that. in. wealthy british style.

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fish to. fish fish fish . welcome back to spotlight and al green of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is constantin they'll go off russian foreign ministry special envoy for human rights democracy and the rule of law this dog of you just told us about the official reaction to your human rights report which you call constructive what was the. other day what does the unofficial reaction what kinds of unofficial reactions have you got of what the angry.

official reaction was there was seen at the reactions for instance in some media yes there has been critical reaction to. our reports it depends upon. upon the media upon the newspaper and by the way in some newspapers reaction once again was quite. acceptable and even quite positive in some other of the years they have been criticisms well look well who are you to judge yourself on this including this rings a bell even with those rings in buildings. and proves the point that we felt he had the target because work the idea behind the report was to once again it was it is based on objective sources and objective information from international human rights organizations human rights council the u.n. and so on and so forth but there deal was to a point our thought to underline the existence of problems even in those countries

which count themselves as the developed democracies you know what sources of information do you use when you prepare your report. i would see why the variety of i mentioned some of them for instance. assessments and conclusions from the universal periodic review of the un human rights council. also . assessment given by such i was well known among governmental organizations as for instance amnesty international or human rights watch or someone here also we also used definitely some of the some of the national sources not only russian sources and the air and also quite a number of open sources by the way in serbia information to be. very much in the in the open to mean so. you said something about who used to jag or

maybe a who has the monopoly to judge nobody has the monopoly to judge others and does everybody have the right to judge. well i would say that. well we all have sort of the right says states and it's not too probably to judge use of judges not be the right word to. underline the existence of problems yes i think every every country has this right and we will he just did this very important struggles you don't consider. your paper to to to be judging we are not judges we're here you're trying to highlight the problem with highlight that in our lives and we are a we are making it clear clear the problems do exist many of them are trans border as we call them problems or common issues and problems and a very important message you know report and i hope that this message has been taken and we heard that it is taken by many that we invited to even broader and

more intensive international catering why is your report so selective because it's mainly situation in the united states and in major western western countries. as we call them countries of europe why are you so selective doesn't that make you biased when you become selective because we're not judging. the u.s. so this is what you care about well the u.s. report well the u.s. report it depicts a describes the situation in all other countries of the world with one exception yes which is the united states of course the. you can guess why but. we do not follow this pattern we we do not want to mention a country only for the sake of mentioning it but we wanted to show once again bit easier and problems exist everywhere including in the most developed code and call democracies and it is and it is not just to criticize for the sake of criticizing

it is to invite those countries and others to more cooperation are you biased. well to be to be frank do you feel that you are sort of biased i don't i don't think we're biased i mean if you if you look and if you read the report and i believe you did it. there is nothing in that report which is not altogether which is altogether unknown to the international community or which isn't being mentioned by those as it was this is another what's the point what's the point of making a report based on paper is already published by international organization like you mentioned the amnesty international mid-south software and the others they're all already open figures what's the point of putting them together and hit another point of the point to stand here today to give a different angle a different attitude of well we do generalize we do systematize a little bit definitely we're not just to come by lingo will be asleep. we are

we're not cooking it when we are we're not just compiling and the idea is to. express our views on just to make it clear that we do observe certain issues and problems in number in a number of countries and there are quite a number of countries i mentioned in our report and. that scope of the report. this essentially will remain unchanged because it develops i mean it depends upon big developments in the field of human rights which we can. i mean we don't exclude that maybe some other countries can begin to mention the next one so we'll see well about other countries and this is another thing that makes me think i think when i read your first report of some wise you you mentioned you speak a lot about the united states about europe but this report does mention some countries where the situation in the field of human rights is.

worse or not at least not better than in the united states and some european countries some of the russian neighbors why aren't you mentioning them why aren't you interested in the situation there will be better or worse you know i always remember that beauty is in the eye of the beholder you know you never you never know what it is if you have difficult to say better or worse but. i tried to describe the logic which we followed when we prepare the first and. i would like to underline this is the first report and first experience in russia but the countries which you mentioned well there are certain issues obviously even worse than even the kremlin says once in a while that they are concerned with the human rights situation for example in belarus right and the foreign minister has said right on the on one occasion yeah it does a lot of the absence of. the sort of country in our first report doesn't mean you are happy does not mean that we do not know good morning that

a situation was going to of course and there larry we do not. or that we underestimate the problems which exist now but are we. as i said i would what is not be warmly channel through which we can come to me are with us so there are other channels including in the russian foreign minister. the russian policy of russian foreign policy is becoming more and more problematic which is good the reason why i've started talking about a bill the rooster countries like syria which are more dependent russia is there i think that that the criticism coming from moscow towards countries like belarus and syria would be more effective than criticising that states don't you don't you agree why do you think we're not criticizing them. we are definitely we do express our views including. those countries which you mentioned and not only but once again there are different channels and we are doing. speaking of syria we are

doing a lot as russia to. promote the political process to which would result definitely obviously in bettering the situation in the field of human rights but political process not the external external interference in the syrian matter so we are contributing and we are of course frankly telling our friends and partners when we see certain things which are wrong i mean in the field of human rights we don't get it could you give us an example of the human rights violation that there is cited in your report that wasn't common knowledge i mean for for for for the white audiences in some country before you published it before you made it made a film. it will have for me probably to my to guess what was not known to the wider. public but i would like to i would lend one issue which

we unfortunately face and witness on their more and more regular basis which is not good you know and it means i'm speaking about territorial. proliferation you know or projection of the u.s. law. i would say that the united states and the. we have seen a number of instances when the russian citizens have been illegally extradited to the united states from the third countries without with all due notification of the russian of the russian government and under the consular convention under the international law in general. this is a very worrisome trend and we have been underlying it. constantly to our american partners and. i can different to refer to a number of cases but. here's one we just say mr boot is one of us there.

is another case where the recently just a few days ago another russian citizen has been exploited from switzerland to to the united states misters that i mean and once again it is very important that all the necessary. for mellitus and provisions of international law are followed by the u.s. government all these cases all these cases i mean russian citizens rights abused abroad are they your priority or your. concern about for example the the rights. of the citizens of other countries being violated finitely it is a huge priority definite so you go or see other russians abroad well i am working. for the russian foreign ministry and i'm a russian diplomat obviously the legitimate rights and freedoms of russian citizens this is a big concern for me for my government for the russian foreign ministry but i am also i am also. monitoring a lot of the implementation of human rights in general you know in general thank

you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind you that my guest today was concerned. russian foreign ministry special envoy for human rights and that's it for now from all of the spotlight will be back with more comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then our team can take you.

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