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Russian presidential elections 2024: Foreign Secretary's statement
Foreign Secretary David Cameron said: These Russian elections starkly underline the depth of repression under President Putin’s regime 
Putin removes his political opponents, controls the media, and then crowns himself the winner. This is not democracy. The Foreign Secretary condemns electoral violations and the suppression of opposition voices during the Russian elections, as well as the breaches of Ukrainian sovereignty in conducting elections on Ukrainian territory.
Foreign Secretary David Cameron said: These Russian elections starkly underline the depth of repression under President Putin’s regime, which seeks to silence any opposition to his illegal war.
Putin removes his political opponents, controls the media, and then crowns himself the winner. This is not democracy.
Russia failed to uphold its commitments to OSCE principles guaranteeing that the will of the people would be expressed freely and fairly. We have seen widespread reports of electoral violations. Independent OSCE observers were not invited.
Any candidate who expressed anti-war views was swiftly disqualified. With only 3 Kremlin-approved challengers, the outcome of this election was never in any doubt.
The death of Alexei Navalny just weeks before the election was a tragic reminder of the severity of political repression in Russia today. Russia must immediately release all political prisoners, including dual-national Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Holding elections on Ukrainian territory – as Russia did in Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia – is an abhorrent violation of the UN Charter and Ukrainian sovereignty. These regions will always be Ukrainian; holding Russia’s presidential elections in these regions does not alter this fact. The UK continues to stand with Ukraine.
Russia must uphold the commitments it freely signed up to and end aggression beyond its borders and repression within them.
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Read all commentsNorthwest of Great Britain always has a Russian submarine with a Poseidon for any British intervention that puts Russia's existence at risk.
Mar 19th, 2024 - 02:23 pm 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knsMqY80MWk&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=1
Without doubt Brassole you are the most idiotic poster on this site, no one should ever use nuclear weapons, EVER, its your lover boy Putin that is making the nuclear threats,
Mar 19th, 2024 - 04:52 pm 0the UKs weapons are a deterrent and threaten no one, they will never be used unless mad Vlad uses them first,
But no similar rebuke to Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda who 'won' 97% of the vote in Rwanda's last presidential election, and yet Cameron says that Rwanda is a 'safe place' to send illegal migrants. Yes, it's the usual gross hypocrisy of the British elite that gives my country such a terrible reputation around the world.
Mar 20th, 2024 - 02:04 pm 0.
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