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Rainbow NewsRussian Foreign Office Condemns the West for "Aggressive Promotion of Sexual Minorities' Rights"
13 Sep. 2013
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation through its representative Konstantin Dolgoff once again issued a statement in which "it did not believe that LGBT rights were the human rights issue". The Russian diplomatic authority mentioned the growing "resistance" to "the promotion by the governments of Western countries of neoliberal values" around the world.
That and other statements were made in a speech of Konstantin Dolgoff, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Special Representative for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov (Twitter @KKdolgov) on the 6th Beijing Forum on Human Rights which concludes today in Chinese capital.
The Russian diplomat has accused the West that "the promotion of LGBT rights" was being enforced on the backstage of the growing number of violations by them (the governments of Western countries) of socio-economic rights and freedoms of its citizens".
"... This is particularly evident in the case of their aggressive promotion of the sexual minorities’ rights", he said. " Attempts have being made to enforce on other countries an alien view of homosexuality and same-sex marriages as a norm of life and some kind of a natural social phenomenon that deserves support at the state level...".
Konstantin Dolgoff is a constant source of homophobic rhetoric in Russia. For some time now it has become a habitual issue for the Russian diplomacy. Since the beginning of 2013, the Russian Foreign Office has at least 6 times criticized the LGBT movement for equal rights. Just a week ago the Special representative accused Barack Obama in hypocrisy "on the backstage of a strong discrimination of LGBT people in the United States". In early August 2013 the Russian diplomatic authority named the campaign for LGBT rights "orchestrated".
...In February 2013 Dolgoff spoke in the name of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during his visit to Brussels: "We (Russia) have no international commitments on sexual minorities' rights". Later that month he made a number of homophobic statements such as a demand to "examine" a child who had been adopted by "a strange family" of lesbians.
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