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Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas: we seek to ensure that the EU keeps the sanctions against Russia over the occupation of Crimea until the peninsula is de-occupied

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Press release, 29 May 2017   On Monday, 29 May 2017, Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and President of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars; Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi, Ambassador of Ukraine to Lithuania; and Prof. Adas Jakubauskas, Chair of the Union of … Skaityti toliau

The Seimas adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in Crimea occupied by the Russian Federation

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Press release, 12 April 2016   The Seimas, with 90 votes in favour, none against and two abstentions, adopted a Resolution on the Human Rights, in Particular of the Crimean Tatars, in Crimea occupied by the Russian Federation (Draft No XIIP-4260). In the document, the Seimas recalls that two years ago the Russian Federation, by using … Skaityti toliau

The Speaker of the Seimas hopes for more attention from the international community to the massive human rights violations in the occupied Crimea

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Press release, 11 April 2016   Loreta Graužinienė, Speaker of the Seimas, welcomed the participants of the international conference Mass Violation of Human Rights in Occupied Crimea, held at the Lithuanian Parliament, and thanked them for their deep interest in the subject of human rights violations of Crimean Tatars in the annexed peninsula. The Speaker … Skaityti toliau