Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin during a meeting with OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Desir has called on him to use his mandate to facilitate the release of illegally detained Ukrainian journalists.
“Klimkin has stressed Ukraine’s commitment to OSCE obligations in the field of media freedom and stressed the importance of careful monitoring by the OSCE representative of the situation in the media in the illegally occupied Crimea and in ORDLO, as well as his active involvement in securing the rights and protecting journalists in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s press service said on Oct.20.
Klimkin has called Desir to use his mandate as much as possible to facilitate the release of Ukrainian journalists Roman Suschenko, Mykola Semena and Stanislav Aseyev illegally held by Russia.
Congratulating Desir on the recent election to the post of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Klimkin noted the need to continue the efforts of this institution in responding to such serious challenges to freedom of speech in the OSCE area as the spread of Russian state propaganda, disinformation and manipulation by Russia of the media in support of its armed aggression against Ukraine.
