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them to conduct in situ investigations of facts contained in document
A/HRC/13/42 concerning Lithuania (Belarus);
90.17. Ease the procedure of obtaining citizenship, including by reducing the
language requirement (Russia);
90.18. Reopen investigations on secret CIA prisons and study all elements
regarding Lithuanian sites (Switzerland);
90.19. Adopt necessary legal amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure
and Criminal Code to make its new Law on Domestic Violence fully
enforceable and to achieve that law’s primary aim, namely to protect victims
from violence (United States of America);
90.20. Intensify efforts to combat trafficking in person inter alia by renewing
individual invitations to the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons and
the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography. Bring the criminal law into full conformity with the provisions of
the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the child relating to
sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (Belarus);
90.21. Enable national minorities to freely use their languages in public
domain, including topographical indications in minority areas (Poland);
90.22. Abandon the practice of applying the so-called retrogressive measures
whereby members of national minorities are deprived of their rights and
freedoms which they had been enjoying and exercising earlier, sometimes for
many decades (Poland);
90.23. Consider granting the right to work, to asylum seekers who have been
in the country for more than six months (Iran).
91.
The recommendation below did not enjoy the support of Lithuania:
91.1.
Stop attempts to revise the outcomes of the Second World War, the
prosecution of anti-fascist veterans and glorification of the Nazi accomplices;
(Russia).
92.
Lithuania considers that the recommendation included in paragraph 91.1 goes
beyond established facts and also beyond aims and tasks of the Universal Periodic
Review process. However, it must be stressed that Lithuanian authorities never did
and never will condone Nazism or its ideology. Lithuania never attempts to revise
history and it believes that an honest thorough debate in other fora on history will
facilitate reconciliation based on truth and remembrance. Furthermore, every
criminal act must be investigated and Lithuania will prosecute all those guilty of such
acts.
93.
All conclusions and/or recommendations contained in the present report reflect
the position of the submitting State(s) and/or the State under review. They should not
be construed as endorsed by the Working Group as a whole.
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