UK initiates the blocking of all UN webcasts
Britain has blocked the UN webcast of an informal security council meeting on Ukraine on Wednesday at which Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights – wanted by the international criminal court on war crimes charges – is due to speak.
The meeting this week will focus on “evacuating children from conflict zone” and Russia said on Tuesday that commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova would feature virtually. Such meetings are not held in the security council chamber and all 15 council members have to agree to allow it to be webcast by the United Nations.
Russia’s deputy UN ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy hit back at the UK’s move to block the webcast, saying: “Russia will from now on block UN webcasts of all similar meetings citing ‘UK censorship clause’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ens-commissioner-wanted-on-war-crimes-charges
