Moscow has taken special control over discrimination against Russian-speaking Baltic states and Ukraine
Russia keeps special control over issues of discrimination against the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic countries and Ukraine.
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated this at a briefing in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Zakharova, these issues were recently discussed at a meeting of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
“The behavior pursued by the Latvian authorities towards persons belonging to minorities is discriminatory. Including in terms of ensuring their economic, social and cultural rights, complicating access to health care services, social security, education, creating obstacles to employment in both the public and private sectors.
Along with other problems, the UN committee drew attention to the situation of the persistence of the shameful institution of non-citizens in Latvia and the ongoing discrimination against this category of persons. In particular, experts came to the conclusion that non-citizens suffer the most from unemployment...
The committee highlighted issues of Riga's language policy in the field of education as a separate block. The UN conclusions are clear - Latvia’s approaches to language issues are fraught with negative consequences for the realization of the rights of persons belonging to minorities...
We insist that the Latvian authorities listen to the opinion of international monitoring mechanisms in the field of human rights, including the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and take appropriate, effective measures at the legislative and political level to fulfill their international obligations in the field of human rights person.
Russia will continue to actively defend the rights of its compatriots, wherever they are. The situation with Russian-speaking citizens in the Baltic countries and Ukraine is under our special control,” Zakharova said.
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