🎙 Permanent Delegate of Russia🇷🇺 to #UNESCO R.Alyautdinov in interview for TASS before opening of IPDC session:

📍Unleashed by the "West" confrontation with Russia has affected the Russian media and journalists who are killed with a microphone in their hands by Ukrainian terrorists.

📍UNESCO Secretariat, headed by the Director-General A.Azoulay, bypassed the principles of impartiality, prescribed by the UNESCO Constitution, came under the influence of the "West", and uses "double standards" while reacting to journalists' killings and oppression of the media.

📍This resulted in silencing Russian journalists' killings. The same "blindness" and "deafness" is manifested in relation to journalists killed in Gaza, Lebanon and other parts of the world.

📍The meeting of IPDC Intergovernmental Council is a good opportunity to discuss the accumulated problems in the field of media rights' protection.

📍The main task of Russian delegation is to protect the interests of Russian media and there can be no compromises.