🇱🇹PR Rytis Paulauskas on behalf of🇪🇪🇱🇻&🇱🇹
🔶 #Russia 's veto to block #UNSC DPRK sanctions Committee’s Panel of Experts mandate to conceal its unlawful arms transfers from🇰🇵cannot be tolerated
🔶Baltic States call the🇺🇳to investigate these illegal actions violating UNSC resolutions

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Pleasure to discuss United Nations Summit of the Future&Global Digital Compact at Seimas | #StandWithUkraine🇱🇹Future Committee w/Lithuania MFA | #StandWithUkraine VM Egidijus Meilūnas,LithuaniaUN🇱🇹 | #StandWithUkraine Amb Rytis Paulauskas,Umberto Masi, Dalia Leinarte et al

Great to see politicians,diplomats&experts charting vision for the future together

Exciting news 📢Today Lithuania has been elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women 🎉
🇱🇹 reaffirms its commitment to the protection and advancement of women's rights on a 🌎 scale

Prof. Dalia Leinarte,joint🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪candidate to #CCPR ,shared her vision of bringing gender lens to CCPR work.We are thankful to esteemed🇧🇭🇨🇦🇭🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇩🇯🇬🇼PRs for their valuable insights. Let’s work together towards a world where #dignity ,equality&justice prevail for all

#Leinarte4CCPR

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) issued a new report on Tuesday, revealing a surge in credible allegations of torture and executions of captured Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) at the hands of Russian forces. news.un.org//en/story/2024…

🇱🇹joins 🇪🇺EU at UN-NY support to🇺🇦’s right of self-defense. Today’s 🇷🇺’s massive air strikes against Kharkiv&Dnipro hydropower plant&other civilian infrastructure is blatant violation of IHL& #UNCharter . 🇱🇹rejects Russia’s hypocrisy at #UNSC &condemns military aid for 🇷🇺 war by 🇮🇷🇧🇾🇰🇵.

🇱🇹PR Rytis Paulauskas at #UNSC debate #EmpowerWomen &youth in conflict prevention noted that inclusivity creates a greater pressure on parties to reach an agreement or return to negotiate when talks had faltered.🇱🇹underlines the role of women&youth of🇺🇦in resisting🇷🇺aggression.

🇱🇹Rytis Paulauskas joined Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 &58 representatives United Nations condemning illegitimate Russia's attempts to hold presidential elections in temporarily occupied areas of🇺🇦.We recall UNGA resolutions rejecting🇷🇺illegal referendums:rb.gy/xlieoo; rb.gy/mqgj2y

On March 15,🇱🇹commemorates the Day of Rescuers of Lithuanian Jews.
We remember Holocaust victims&honor those who bravely saved Jews from Nazi genocide during WWII.
With 924🇱🇹citizens,who saved the Jews,recognized as Righteous Among the Nations,🇱🇹is second in🌍by population size.

🙏🇯🇵for #UNSC working methods debate.🇱🇹PR Rytis Paulauskas highlighted the abuse of veto power by #Russia contradicting #UNCharter article 27(3). 🇱🇹 supports 🇫🇷-🇲🇽 initiative to limit use of veto when mass atrocities are committed,with focus on cases such as 🇷🇺aggression against🇺🇦

At #CSW68 ministerial round table Chancellor of the Gov.of🇱🇹 Giedre Balcytyte:
🔹complex problems require solutions based on technology and data
🔹Int.community must put all efforts and resources needed to make Russia pull back from 🇺🇦 and get hold fully accountable.

🇱🇹PR Rytis Paulauskas at the opening of United Nations #CSW68 session. #Lithuania is dedicated to addressing the reduction of global #poverty and continuing advocating for protection of 🇺🇦 women and girls #rights and mitigating negative social effects emanating from Russia's aggression.

Today we celebrate the unbreakable stance and determination of the Lithuanian 🇱🇹 nation to regain their freedom in 1990. It continues to inspire! Sveikiname Lietuvą nepriklausomybės atkūrimo dienos proga!

Over the past 2 years, the UN Human Rights Office in #Ukraine has documented widespread torture, ill-treatment & arbitrary detention of civilians by Russian forces.

Summary executions & enforced disappearances were documented in occupied territories.

➡ukraine.un.org/en/261355-t%C3…

On the second anniversary of Russia’s aggression: Czechia strongly condemns the abhorrent deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia. We, alongside all #EU member states & Ukraine, have just sent a joint letter to the United Nations demanding Russia cease this crime and reunite families.

Today we, the Baltic States 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 and Czechia 🇨🇿 come to this Council to address the entire international community with a very simple message:

For all our sakes, wake up. 🧵

'It is a🌍issue, not only a European war.If #Russia is allowed to continue unabated in #Ukraine today,its war will very soon creep into everyone else's 'backyard'.Rogue players across the🌍will feel emboldened to settle their own issues their own way.'-🇱🇹FM Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 at #UNGA

Representatives of all United Nations agencies in Ukraine and the Head of the UN & Humanitarian Coordinator in the country, Denise Brown, met the Belgian Minister for Development Cooperation @CaroGennez in Kyiv today.

The immense human toll of Russia’s invasion was the focus of the agenda.

Together with 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧🇱🇹🇱🇺🇺🇸we organized the screening of “Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”.

2 years since the full-scale 🇷🇺invasion of 🇺🇦, we remain steadfast in our support for Ukraine. We #StandWithUkraine and brave 🇺🇦people defending their motherland.

📸A. Barash