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Still there was not one specific fact of persecution of individuals based on sexual orientation in Chechnya, said the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“At the expense of human rights, we are open to any dialogue. As soon as there were reports that they oppress persons based on sexual orientation in the Chechen Republic, the President instructed the responsible on human rights of the Russian Federation to deal with this issue, and she understands”, — said Lavrov, speaking at a Fund named Cerberus.
The Minister noted that “the trial is complicated by the fact that, despite these events — 27 people were lost, killed, the family moved somewhere or are the LGBT people fled from Russia — despite the abundance of information that is still under investigation there was not a single name, a fact that would tie these messages to any town, place, a date.”
“If any human rights violations against LGBT people in Russia will be fixed, I can assure you that our law is tough enough… If the facts are, we will react”, — the Minister added.
Lavrov stressed that Russia has no laws that would prohibit homosexuality, in contrast to “from a number of countries where it is a criminal offence for which deprive of life.”
“The only thing in our law is written that prohibits the promotion of homosexuality to minors. There are, after all, not only the right to freedom of expression, is the right of parents to educate their children in the religious, philosophical vision that they share. Is the Convention on the rights of the child”, he concluded.