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Editor’s Note: The following is the transcript of the speech by the UK’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Julian Braithwaite to the Human Rights Council in response to the oral update of High Commissioner on Ukraine, Dec. 18.

Thank you, Mr President,

The United Kingdom thanks the Deputy High Commissioner for her update and welcomes the 28th report of the OHCHR Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.

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