Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the European Union should be ashamed of the problem of Russian speakers’ non-citizenship in Latvia and Estonia, while the retention of the institution of non-citizenship is inadmissible.
He was speaking during a traditional annual meeting with the students and teachers of Moscow International Relations University earlier today.
He said that the countries in question can imperturbably ignore appeals by the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the UN to drastically reduce the number of non-citizens and abolish that shameful institution only because there are those who try to defend them.
He added that he insists on the need to automatically grant citizenship rights to children who were born into the families of non-citizens, as well as to people of advanced age who find it difficult to learn a foreign language.
Interfax
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