The Russian diplomatic mission to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva has asked the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to publicly condemn russophobia in the Baltic states, one of the mission members, Yaroslav, said. Eremin.
“We strongly urge the High Commissioner and related special procedures to publicly condemn these discriminatory and barbaric practices and treaty body experts to take them into account when examining the human rights situation in these countries,” Yeremin said during the debate. General of the 51st session of the OHCHR.
According to the diplomat, “the nationalist circles of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have deliberately taken measures for many years to maintain the Russophobic course of their states. “
He stressed that this is complemented by severe information censorship, shutting down or limiting the activities of all independent Russian-language media.
Eremin added that Russian-language kindergartens, schools and study programs are being abolished, which, according to him, significantly limits the right to education in the mother tongue of the Russian-speaking minority.
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Fuente: Sputnik
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