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Russia Chairs the UN Security Council - April (none / 0)

🗓️ On 1 April, #Russia assumes the rotating Presidency of the UN Security Council. Here is the program for the first working day of the month. #RussiaPresidency #UNSC #SecurityCouncil #UNSCPresident pic.twitter.com/psL7IKBei3
— Russia at the United Nations (@RussiaUN) April 1, 2023

Rotating Order Presidency of the UNSC
The president has worked to coordinate the UNSC with other organs. The president has authority to rule upon points of order, which can be put to a vote if a member of the council challenges it. They also name members of various subsidiary organs, and are generally responsible for maintaining order. Since November 2000, the president has generally prepared background papers for on the topic being discussed.

Nothing out of the ordinary ... war or no war during the War of Terror by the United States from 2001 to present.

John Negroponte-John Bolton-Khalilzad-Susan Rice-Samantha Power-Nikki Haley-Thomas=Greenfield.

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by Oui (Oui) on Sat Apr 1st, 2023 at 06:35:12 PM EST

Re: Russia Chairs the UN Security Council - April (none / 0)

Russian UN Security Council presidency on April 1 is a bad joke. Russia has usurped its seat; it's waging a colonial war; its leader is a war criminal wanted by the ICC for kidnapping children. The world can't be a safe place with Russia at UNSC #BadRussianJoke #InsecurityCouncil
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 30, 2023

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by Oui (Oui) on Sat Apr 1st, 2023 at 06:35:49 PM EST
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APsplainin Red Cross confirms contact with Russia about Ukrainian kids, 7 Apr post-Azovstal Olenivka POW mission

The ICRC's contacts with Russian children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova marked the first [?!] confirmation of high-level international intervention to reunite families with children who were forcibly deported.

since 24 Feb 2022? m'k.

ICRC spokesman Jason Straziuso said Thursday the organization is in contact with Lvova-Belova "in line with its mandate to restore contact between separated families and facilitate reunification where feasible."
That goes beyond the engagement of other agencies. The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said it has also been in contact with Russian officials about the children, but spokesman Kurtis Cooper told The Associated Press that UNICEF "has not received feedback on our offer to facilitate reunifications processes." Refugees International denied any contact with the Russians -- despite Lvova-Belova's claim it had contacted her.
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archived UKRAINE FACT-FINDING 2023, field work had temporarily halted, ICRC registers hundreds, Elenovka IRC experts in EU Inflation and Russia Sanctions Timeline, Russian Red Cross asks ICRC for assistance

by Cat on Sun Apr 9th, 2023 at 04:50:24 PM EST
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8 Apr deported abduction UPDATE (none / 0)

Ukraine brings back 31 children from Russia amid war

Mykola Kuleba said at a news conference in Kyiv that the children were expected to arrive in the capital later in the day. Kuleba is the executive director of the Save Ukraine [09.03.22] organization and is the presidential commissioner for children's rights.
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archived 16,221, 1,000 or 8,000
The exact number of Ukrainian children taken to Russia has been difficult to determine, and numbers from the warring countries differ vastly.
A statement posted Wednesday on Twitter by Ukraine's U.N. ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said more than 19,500 children had been SEIZED from their families or orphanages and forcibly deported.

by Cat on Mon Apr 10th, 2023 at 01:23:41 PM EST
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Ukraine calls Wimbledon's decision to lift Russian tennis player ban 'immoral' [_link]
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 31, 2023

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Apr 1st, 2023 at 06:36:14 PM EST
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NEW: IOC president Thomas Bach announces recommendation that Russian + Belarusian athletes should be allowed to compete as neutrals.
But - no teams competing, nor anyone who supports Russia's war in Ukraine.
— Martyn Ziegler (@martynziegler) March 28, 2023

Same condition for Western athletes with display of warmongering attributes of flags from UA or USA?

Most likely the top athletes are on tour and reside in Monaco, Nice, Florida or Bermuda anyway.

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by Oui (Oui) on Sat Apr 1st, 2023 at 06:39:02 PM EST
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"Die Entscheidung des IOC ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht der ukrainischen Sportlerinnen und Sportler", so Bundesinnenministerin Nancy #Faeser zur heutigen Entscheidung des IOC, russische und belarussische Sportlerinnen und Sportler wieder zuzulassen.
— Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat (@BMI_Bund) March 28, 2023

Most International Sports Organizations have a historic precedents of corruption and abuse of human rights ... they are quite similar to guidance of states. Authoritarianism, fascism, Qatar, Argentina, Germany and the three big powers set a bad example.

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by Oui (Oui) on Sat Apr 1st, 2023 at 06:40:10 PM EST
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