cover image: STATEMENT BY MR. ALEXANDER LUKASHEVICH, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, AT THE 1326th MEETING OF THE OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL

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STATEMENT BY MR. ALEXANDER LUKASHEVICH, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, AT THE 1326th MEETING OF THE OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL

22 Sep 2021

This gross trampling on the right of access to information is taking place while the patrons of the Ukrainian Government in the United States of America and the European Union are completely silent. [...] The new provisions of the laws on the State language and on education are glaring examples of encroachment on Ukrainian citizens’ desire to speak Russian, which is the mother tongue of the majority of that country’s population. [...] These discriminatory steps by the Ukrainian authorities are in contravention of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. [...] And this despite the law clearly contravening the Constitution and the fact that it was passed with serious violations of the rules of procedure of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament). [...] By the same token, the Ukrainian authorities prefer not to remember the recommendation made in 2019 by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe regarding the adoption of the Law on National Minorities.
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