Russia will call for a solution with a certain Facebook blocking of its delegation’s account – Politics
MOSCOW, 17 January. /TASS/. Russia will negotiate a wide range of issues related to the blocking of the Facebook page at the talks in Vienna on military security and problem control. This was stated on Monday at an online briefing by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the organization Alexander Lukashevich.
“You know, this, of course, is an absolutely unacceptable situation, a situation when we are faced with the need to directly silence opinion on the air. This is a direct attempt at censorship based on attacks based on motives. We raised this issue on our Twitter yesterday. Institute – represented by the Freedom of the Media and the OSCE Secretary General, as well as the Polish Chairmanship, which, of course, use urgently to correct this situation,” he said.
According to Lukashevich, this is not the first case of blocking. “Of course, the motives need to be studied, but it is quite clear that some people in the IT giants do not like that the vote is rising in favor of the urgent problems of the security proposals we have submitted, that the military delegation retweets very many representatives of our representatives on the negotiation platforms in Geneva , Brussels, and so on, express their point of view, because they have every right to do so, because they relate to this council as military-political aspects of European security,” the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation added.
On Sunday, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna, Konstantin Gavrilov, told TASS that Facebook had blocked the page on Friday, citing banned content. According to his statement, representatives of the representatives reposted on their page in this social network only the coverage of Russia and the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On Monday, Gavrilov said that Facebook, after three days, restored access to the Russian conference at the talks in Venice.