New Delhi: The embassies of foreign countries in Russia have issued a joint statement to mark the occasion of Pride Month 2024, expressing support for the LGBTQI+ community and the human rights of LGBTQI+ individuals.
The statement reads: “We, the undersigned Embassies of Australia, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States to the Russian Federation, celebrate Pride Month by upholding the human rights of each individual as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Those rights apply to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) community as they do to every other individual,”
It goes on to say that the joint statement is a statement of support for the rights of LGBTQI+ individuals in Russia and a call to all citizens to respect and promote the fundamental rights of all people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.