| Date | 18 December 2008 |
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| Started | 15:00 |
| Ended | 16:15 |
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Agenda item 64 (continued)
Promotion and protection of human rights
(b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Report of the Third Committee (A/63/430/Add.2)
The Acting President
Members will recall that the Assembly took action this morning on the draft resolutions contained in the report (see A/63/PV.70).
I shall now call on those representatives who wish to speak with respect to the resolutions adopted under this sub-item.
Mr. Lukiyantsev (Russia)
Last week, we commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As Russian Federation President Medvedev stressed in a message sent to participants in the commemorative meeting of the General Assembly held on 10 December, goodwill and resolute effort on the part of all relevant actors, including States, international organizations and civil society institutions, are required if we are to overcome negative trends in the area of promoting and protecting human rights. The purpose is to ensure respect for human rights and help to build a more just world order, taking into account the diversity of today's world and traditional human values. As we have repeatedly noted, international cooperation in the area of human rights should contribute to the promotion of mutual trust, understanding and respect among States.
Russia is convinced that human rights should be a unifying, rather than a divisive, factor in international relations. Such an approach means that no issue that could lead to confrontation or division among United Nations Member States should be included in the agenda. Here, unfortunately, we are dealing with precisely such an issue. That is why we share many of the concerns expressed in the statement made at the 70th plenary meeting by the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic on behalf of a number of States.
While the Russian Federation is opposed to discrimination, intolerance, repression and acts of violence against persons of non-traditional sexual orientation, that narrow and specific issue should be addressed within the framework of existing international legal instruments for the protection of human rights. Artificially placing persons of non-traditional sexual orientation in a separate group could well overburden an already heavy General Assembly agenda and change the main focus of United Nations efforts to protect human rights and overcome discrimination and xenophobia.
Mr. Rachkov (Belarus)
The issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity are complex and varied. The Republic of Belarus believes that those issues, which are sensitive and uniquely narrow in scope, should not be considered hastily, requiring a particularly prudent and thoughtful approach.
The Republic of Belarus agrees that a consensual approach should be taken in respecting the rights of all social groups. We believe that human rights issues should not be addressed in a manner that leads to rifts or confrontations among Member States. Rather, they should be discussed in a spirit of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue, as called for in resolution 61/166, adopted by the General Assembly at its sixty-first session at the initiative of Belarus.
The Acting President
I call on the observer of the Observer State of the Holy See.
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