Russian employees of the foreign Ministry were surprised to hear the assessment of the Latvian foreign Ministry in connection with the participation of 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 in the conference of Russian compatriots in Riga on September 13. " The Latvian foreign Ministry, for example, declares, that, say, the accusations of the Russian capital in the address of Riga due to adverse human rights situation in Latvia do not have reason, and in fact this is a part of the free, democratic world, proud of the fact that its inhabitants have all the fundamental rights and freedoms as citizens of other countries of the European Union, " according to the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation." Such bravado is another cynical attempt by the Latvian authorities to mislead the international community, as well as the population of Latvia in relation to the real situation of Affairs. Many serious, substantiated complaints To the human rights situation in Latvia and policy in this area expressed by relevant international institutions and mechanisms, including the Committee on human rights, Committee on the destruction of racial discrimination, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for human rights and the OSCE high Commissioner on national minorities, " he added there. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation recalled the " shameful for a free Europe " position with the " aliens ", who make up about 14% of inhabitants of Latvia, and equally in General with minorities constituting 37, 9% of the population." Surprise and words Latvian side about the fact that K. K. the Debt is not expressed de desire to meet with officials of Latvia, that explains the lack of readiness of the Russian side to defend arguments, " wonder in the Russian international Ministry and add that again is clumsy attempt to bring down with a sick head on healthy ". Because foreign Ministry have repeatedly offered to hold meetings Konstantin Dolgov, the foreign Ministry of Latvia. First Thursday Konstantin Dolgov said that the EU responds to violations of human rights in the Baltic States and Ukraine, only rhetoric. The Debt noted 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."
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