LITHUANIA ORGANIZES ARRIA FORMULA MEETING ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA SITUATION IN CRIMEA, UKRAINE
On 31 March the Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations organizes an informal meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, in Arria-formula, on the human rights and media freedom situation in Crimea, Ukraine.
The meeting aims at shedding the light on the situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine, and the City of Sevastopol, Ukraine. Mr. Mustafa Dzhemilev, human rights activist, a Soviet dissident, former Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, member of the Verkhova Rada of Ukraine since 1998, and Ms. Valentyna Samar, Head of Board of the Information Press Center in Simferopol, Chief Editor of the Center of Journalistic Investigation, and member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, will take part in the meeting.
The meeting will provide the UN Security Council members with the opportunity to ask both speakers about their assessment of reports of human rights violations, media situation, and implications of the recent events for many ethnic minorities residing in Crimea.
The meeting is open to all UN Member States.
