Lithuania’s response to a Russian report

Lithuania does not agree with the suggestions published in Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ report on observing human rights in European Union. The Lithuanian side claims that the Russian Ministry gave inaccurate information concerning violating human rights in UE countries, including breaking the minority groups’ rights in Lithuania.

“This information is not objective and it spreads disinformation on how the European Union works in our country. The report also tries to undermine the authenticity of fundamental events in Lithuanian history by negating the crimes of totalitarian regimes. Lithuania categorically declares that making judgements and trying to present incorrect interpretations of history and other circumstances, done by Russia under the veneer of human rights, are not accepted in Lithuania and have nothing in common with analysing or assessing the state of human right in the world.” – said the director of the Department of United Nations, International Organizations and Human Rights in the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oskar Jusis.

As O. Jusis said, the part of the report regarding Lithuania gives imprecise, incorrect and visibly untrue information.

Let us remind that on Tuesday the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a report regarding observing human rights in European Union. Russian experts wrote, among other things, that three Baltic countries – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – discriminate minority groups, including the Russian-speaking ones, particularly in the field of education, and that they restrict the freedom of the media.

Source: http://www.wilnoteka.lt/pl/artykul/odpowiedz-litwy-na-raport-rosji

Tłumaczenie by Kinga Zinser w ramach praktyk w Europejskiej Fundacji Praw Człowieka, www.efhr.eu. Translated by Kinga Zinser within the framework of a traineeship programme of the European Foundation of Human Rights, www.efhr.eu.