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Ukraine and the UN signed a joint preventive plan to prevent and terminate gross violations of children's rights in armed aggression

Advisor - Presidential Commissioner for Children and Children's Rehabilitation Darya Gerasimchuk, UN System Coordinator in Ukraine, Humanitarian Coordinator Deniz Brown and UNICEF Murat Shahin's Office Signed a Joint Preventive Plan for Prevention and Termination against Ukraine. Next week, a special representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflicts Virginia Gamba will be certified in New York.

“Today, Ukraine takes another, far from the first step to save Ukrainian children from racist invaders and demonstrates respect for the mechanisms and rules of the UN, signing a preventive plan developed with the organization of the United Nations.

We hope that other countries of the world will be used by our example, because today it is about Ukrainian children, and tomorrow it can be any child in any country of the world, ”Daria Gerasimchuk said after signing a document that took place in the President's office Ukraine.

According to the advisor - authorized by the Head of State, Russia - the first in history a permanent member of the United Nations Council, which the Secretary General of the United Nations mentioned in the annex to his annual report "Children and Armed Conflicts" for 2022 among other countries that committed such violations .

The signing of a common preventive plan with the UN is an important step in the framework of Bring Kids Back UA - a comprehensive action plan developed on the initiative of Vladimir Zelensky. The plan combines the efforts of the Ukrainian authorities, foreign governments and international organizations to return to the homeland of Ukrainian children stolen by Russia.

According to the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, a lot of work is ahead of the return of Ukrainian children, and the efforts of Ukrainians will not stop until every citizen is at home near his family. “The release of all prisoners and deported is an important point in the formula of peace. Thousands of our people, including over 19,000 Ukrainian children, are in Russian captivity. Ukraine is grateful to all in the world who helps to return Ukrainians home.