At #UNGA81 Third Committee, Lithuania, on behalf of the #NB8 🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇱🇻🇱🇹🇳🇴🇸🇪, highlighted Belarus’s growing disregard for human rights, at home and beyond its borders. Belarus actively supports Russia’s war of aggression, increasingly generates hybrid threats against its neighbours, including the instrumentalisation of migrants, and is complicit in the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. It must stop. belarus keeps tightening its grip on human rights: ▪️Dismantles civil society and independent media ▪️Jails opponents on political charges and uses torture, including sexual & gender-based violence ▪️Targets Belarusians abroad through transnational repression ▪️Specifically targets women activists, journalists and human rights defenders ▪️ Treats political prisoners as bargaining chips Releases must be unconditional, with no coercion, forced exile or further punishment. #HumanRights #StandWithUkraine

🇱🇹 At the @UN General Assembly, Lithuania co-sponsored the resolution on the @IAEA Annual Report and reaffirmed its strong support for the Agency's mandate on nuclear safety, security, safeguards and peaceful uses. 🇺🇦 40 years after Chornobyl, nuclear safety can never be taken for granted: ▪️ Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure endanger nuclear facilities ▪️ We strongly support the IAEA's continued presence and assistance in Ukraine ▪️ Zaporizhzhia NPP is Ukraine's plant and must be returned to Ukraine's full sovereign control ☢️ Radiation risks do not respect borders. Belarus's Ostrovets NPP is just 50 km from Vilnius: ▪️ Serious safety issues remain unresolved ▪️ ~1/3 of Lithuania's population lives within 100 km Belarus must suspend operation until all concerns are addressed. #IAEA #ZNPP #Ukraine #Ostrovets #UNGA

At #UNGA debate on equitable increase in the membership of the 🇺🇳 Security Council 🇱🇹 reiterated principled support to #UNSC reform, increasing global representation, & addressing #russia abuse of veto power in shielding its accountability for the war of aggression against 🇺🇦

At #UNGA81 Third Committee, Lithuania, on behalf of NB8 🇪🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇮🇸🇱🇹🇱🇻🇳🇴🇸🇪, highlighted that freedom of religion or belief extends beyond life. Russia's destruction of religious sites, cemeteries and memorials in Ukraine🇺🇦 deprives communities of their right to mourn with dignity. #StandWithUkraine #UNGA #FRoB #FreedomOfReligion #NoToRussianAggression

Russia must comply with the #CWC #NoImpunity 🇱🇹 delivered a joint statement on behalf of 49 countries 🇦🇱🇦🇩🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇦🇧🇬🇨🇦🇭🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇪🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇺🇮🇸🇮🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇱🇻🇱🇮🇱🇺🇲🇹🇲🇭🇫🇲🇲🇨🇲🇪🇳🇱🇳🇿🇲🇰🇳🇴🇵🇱🇵🇹🇰🇷🇲🇩🇷🇴🇸🇲🇸🇰🇸🇮🇪🇸🇸🇪🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 + 🇪🇺 at #UNGA81 First Committee on Russia's use of chemical weapons in Ukraine 🇺🇦. This is a systematic pattern: 🔹 14,000+ cases since Feb 2023, incl. chloropicrin 🔹 6,021 Ukrainian personnel needed medical care 🔹 Three OPCW TAV reports confirmed CS in frontline samples, incl. drone components We fully support the @OPCW and its Technical Secretariat in their independent, impartial work. Attribution is crucial. Those responsible must be identified and held accountable.