Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As I said, we have identified LGBTI rights as a priority human rights issue. It is something we are actively pursuing through our membership of the Human Rights Council, which we took up last January. In addition, we are using other international fora to press for action in this area. We will continue to bring our concerns regarding the new legislation to the Russian authorities. We will be making the point very clearly that, as far as we are concerned, human rights are universal and should apply in the same way in Russia as they apply anywhere else.

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