(Remarks of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the high-level segment of the 43rd regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Feb.25, 2020.)
Today, when the situation in the world is becoming more and more complicated, when old hotbeds of tensions have not been resolved and when new ones emerge, the task of devising new approaches to ensuring humankind’s stable and sustained development that meet the spirit of the times is coming to the fore. Obviously, people, with all their needs and rights, will benefit most from all these efforts. Russia consistently proceeds from the need to devote equal attention to all human rights categories — and not just civil and political rights, but also to economic, social and cultural rights. Otherwise, it would prove impossible to protect the interests of socially vulnerable populations, including women, children, large families, senior citizens, people with disabilities and unemployed persons.
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