Russia has information about cases of children being taken from Ukrainian refugees in European countries. This was stated by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on the protection of Ukrainian children in the European Union. TASS.
“After the aforementioned informal meeting of the Security Council in April, we received requests for the removal of children from their parents, who were mostly in Europe with them. “The number of cases that we only know about is dozens,” he said, adding that refugees do not know who to turn to.
According to him, such requests also came from citizens of European Union countries.
Nebenzya emphasized that from this perspective, it can be concluded that the problem is “very serious and widespread”.
The international legal framework for the protection of children includes the convention on the rights of the child and its optional protocol, he recalled that these documents ensure that the rights of the child are not separated from those of his family and prohibit arbitrary and unlawful interference. in personal and family life.
1 November TASS, citing Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova reportedIt was stated that five children who were separated from their families returned from the Russian Federation to Ukraine, and one child returned to Russia.
Former Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN reported About the complaints of Ukrainians about the exclusion of their children from the EU.