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“Russia, as the occupying power, must take responsibility for violations of international law and human rights in Crimea,” stressed the Lithuanian Foreign Minister.
The Lithuanian head of diplomacy called on the international community to further increase political pressure by imposing sanctions on Russia, demanding full compliance with international law and human rights standards, and to condemn Russia’s specific actions for forced peninsular integration. and ongoing militarization.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the meeting, Ilze Brands Kehris, UN Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights and Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in New York, presented the OHCHR mission report highlighting the deterioration of the human rights situation in Crimea, the systematic restrictions on freedom of assembly and association.
The meeting emphasized that Russia is consolidating its permanent military presence on the peninsula, following a policy aimed at changing the demographic structure of Crimea. Arbitrary arrests, forced summons, displacement and deportations of ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, residents of Crimea, continue.
The meeting also had the support of Lithuania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Sacartwell, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine.
