The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: the EU does not respond to human rights violations in Ukraine
The EU does not respond to violations of human rights in the Baltic States and Ukraine, Moscow will defend the rights of Russian-speaking Residents only legal means speaking against linking this issue With foreign economic relations, said the Commissioner of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the issues of human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov.
" We are against any claims. Assume the universality of international obligations in the field of human rights: they must be adhered to by all countries without exception, " said Debts in the conversation Riga newspaper " Vesti Segodnya ", answering the question is not whether Moscow to return to the batch principle, linking economic relations With the rights of the Russian community.
Debt thus reminded that all 3 Baltic countries have joined the relevant international conventions on the rights of national minorities, and tried to convince the authorities of these States to fulfil their obligations." However, in the case of Latvia and Estonia - With significant reservations that really negate their participation in conventions. To put up with it impossible. We believe that the authorities in these States are required to comply with all international obligations, " said Debts.
Debts noticed that in the documents of the European Union is " a lot of rhetoric about the rights of national minorities ", but " serious response to their violations in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, by the way, as in Ukraine, the EU as there was none."
According to policy, " providing the whole complex of the legitimate rights and interests of Russian population in the Baltic countries eventually will work to strengthen the stability and prosperity of these States ".