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Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy criticised the UK’s objection in a 4 April tweet, announcing that “Russia will from now on block UN webcasts of all similar meetings”. Evacuating Children From Conflict Zone”, which featured controversial briefings by Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova and representatives from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic. (For more information, see our 16 March What’s in Blue story.) On 5 April, the UK blocked the webcasting of an Arria-formula meeting organised by Russia titled “Children and Armed Conflict: Ukrainian Crisis. On 17 March, China blocked the webcasting of an Arria-formula meeting on the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). This is the third time in the past two months that a Council member has objected to the webcasting of an Arria-formula meeting. It seems that the co-organisers intend to livestream the meeting on the YouTube channel of the Permanent Mission of the US to the UN. In line with established practice, the webcasting of Arria-formula meetings via UNTV requires the consent of all Council members it can therefore be blocked if a single Council member objects.

The meeting, which will begin at 10 am EST and take place in Conference Room 4, will not be broadcast on UNTV, after Russia raised an objection to webcasting it on the official UN channel. Briefings are expected from Ezequiel Heffes, Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict Dmytro Lubinets, the Ombudsperson of Ukraine Daria Herasymchuk, Adviser-Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Rights of the Child and Child Rehabilitation and a civil society representative. The meeting is being co-hosted by Albania, France, and the US, together with non-Council member Ukraine, and is being co-sponsored by over 42 member states. This morning (28 April), Security Council members will hold an Arria-formula meeting titled “Addressing the Abduction and Deportation of Children During Armed Conflict: Concrete Steps for Accountability and Prevention”. Arria-Formula Meeting on Abduction and Deportation of Children During Armed Conflict

Us. watchlist on children and armed conflict,