MOSCOW:Moscow will appeal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the violation of Russians' rights in the Baltic states, as Ru...
MOSCOW:Moscow will appeal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the violation of Russians' rights in the Baltic states, as Russia's attempts to resolve the issue through negotiations have been unsuccessful, the Russian Foreign Ministry told the Izvestia newspaper.
"We have repeatedly called on Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to hold themselves accountable internationally for these ongoing violations. However, the authorities of these countries refuse to cease their unlawful policies, and all attempts to resolve the differences through negotiations have proven fruitless. Therefore, we will obviously have to take our claims to court by appealing to the UN's principal judicial body," the ministry stated.
The ministry clarified that it is working to draw the UN's attention to the repression of public figures and human rights defenders of the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic states.
"Under the trumped-up pretext of combating 'Russian propaganda,' the purge of any 'dissent' from the Latvian information space continues," the Russian Foreign Ministry noted.
The ministry pointed out that in Estonia, the rights of the "non-titular" population are openly restricted, since the "primacy of the Estonian ethnos" is enshrined at the constitutional level.
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