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HRC 54: Emine Dzhaparova - First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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Let me invite the Her Excellency, Miss I mean Jafarova, First Deputy Minister of Ukraine, Vazum Deaf Floor.
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President, for giving me the floor and let me begin with expressing my country's deep condolences for innocent victims of the large scale terrorist attack from Gaza.
The horrifying images from Israel really remind us of those that we've seen in Buchi and European back in April 22.
Same crime, same inhumanity.
And those footages serve as yet another reminder that terror must be stopped and perpetrators must be punished.
The Ukrainian people feel the unspeakable pain of the victims and their families like no other.
Just last Thursday, a Russian missile attack on the village of Ghaza in Hakkiv region killed at least 52 civilians, including an 8 year old boy.
One out of every seven residents of this small village was killed.
It means every family in Rosa has lost someone.
The missile hit a cafe where a memorial service for the Ukrainian defender Andri Kozi was held.
His widow, his young son Denise, also a soldier, his 20 year old daughter-in-law Nina, were among those killed.
Next day, on October 6th, a 10 year old boy and his grandmother were killed and 27 people were injured in a Russian attack on the city of Harkiv.
These are sad news for you, for the whole civilised and critically thinking world, and at the same time it's a bitter reality that we live in.
The Ukrainian people live in for 19 months of unprovoked aggression resulting in horrific abuses and human rights violations.
The evidence presented in the missions report, and I'm thankful for that, and that Russia's mass ****** of the Ukrainian prisoners of war in the detention centre in Olenovka put and should contribute to their efforts to ensure that justice is served for the sake of those families of the victims and for those who still remain in the Russian detention.
The UN human rights machinery has to consolidate efforts in documenting the pattern of enforced deportation of the Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia and Belarus, which would allow us to bring back every abducted child.
This destruction by Russia of the Hakka Kahovka Dam has led to one of the biggest industrial and ecological disasters in Europe and the impact of which on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment will be felt for years to come and well beyond Ukrainians borders.
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President, arbitrary and incommunicado detention of civilians, the policy of mass conferral, Russian citizenship, harassment and criminal persecution, forceful conscription to the Russian army remained part and parcel of Russia's control over Ukrainian temporarily occupied territories, including my beloved homeland Crimea.
My friend Narimanjagal, First Deputy Chairman of the Measures of the Crimean Qatar People, my relative Hassan Akhimov and his brother Aziz were sentenced by the Russian occupying authorities on trumped up charges for 1715 and 13 years.
Accordingly have already spent two years behind the bars.
Just a few days ago, they were unlawfully transferred from Crimea to the Russian Federation to serve their sentences in gross violation of international law.
To date, there are over 180 prisoners held in Russian captivities.
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Russia's war of aggression against my country is a war against each and every country present in this room.
It causes the hardships of food, environmental and nuclear insecurity and undermines the exercise of human rights for all.
We all feel insecured.
Tomorrow at the UN General Assembly, the choice will be made for a new composition of the UN Human Rights Council.
And before taking this crucial decision, we must ask ourselves one simple question.
Does an aggressor state have the right to be a member of the UN and the main UN human rights body?
And the answer for myself and for my compatriots and, I believe for the whole civilised world is obvious.
The country that has become a symbol of torture, deaths, killings, repressions cannot be entrusted with the responsibility of advocating for universal respect and safeguarding of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
So I believe that the choice should be responsible and the collective response for atrocities must be as strong as ever.
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Let me inform you that the list of speakers is now closed and we will continue.