Russian Diplomat Slams Estonia, Latvia Over Rights of Non-Citizens
Posted on: Friday, 9 December 2005, 12:00 CST
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti
Moscow, 9 December: The fact that thousands of Russian-speaking residents of Latvia and Estonia do not have citizenship is an outrageous violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was announced on Friday [9 December] by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Yakovenko in comments on the marking of Human Rights Day on 10 December. His statement was forwarded by the department of information and press of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"Although we understand that no state has an absolutely perfect system for ensuring human rights, at the same time we have an understandable concern over the mass violation of the rights of Russian-speaking citizens," the deputy minister said.
He added that the right of citizenship was one of the fundamental human rights, enshrined also in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"This is an obvious, blatant violation of a universal international standard, and this is something we cannot agree with," Yakovenko stressed.
[Passage omitted]
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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