Ukraine calls on UN to brought to account those responsible for aggressive propaganda

Representative of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Committee Yehor Pyvovarov said at a meeting of the United Nations Committee on Information, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“My delegation would like to call on member states to start elaborating an international document to resist propaganda in order to protect our societies from informational wars at state level, as well as other campaigns aimed at satisfying geopolitical appetites of some unhealthy leaders,” the Ukrainian represented stressed.

Pyvovarov didn’t name the state which he was speaking about, but he emphasized that everybody understood what a country it was.

“This country invented a new type of war – the so-called hybrid war,” where state-controlled TV channels, newspapers and thousands of hired internet bots, like armed subdivisions without identifying marks, are a serious threat to all those what we are speaking about and what we are protecting here, in the UNO,” the diplomat said.

Pyvovarov emphasized that “the UNO should become an outpost of the international informational security. The organization should determine, name and made responsible all those who try to reincarnate the dead spirit of the cold war”.

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