Moscow, December 10, 2013
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"By and large, we will oppose the inclusion of references to sexual orientation in international legal documents, including resolutions of UN bodies," Gennady Gatilov said in an interview a transcript of which was posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website.
Gatilov was responding to a request for comments on a U.S. plan to lobby in the UN Human Rights Council for non-discrimination against sexual minorities as one of its foreign policy priorities.
"The term 'sexual orientation' has no definition in international law and can be interpreted in a large variety of ways. Recently, for example, it has been a much-hyped thesis that pedophilia is a form of sexual orientation. This sounds offensive to us," Gatilov said.