NGO Activists Expect to Meet With Obama During His Visit to Moscow
MOSCOW. July 2 (Interfax) - Activists from human rights organizations expect to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama during his upcoming visit to Moscow.
A forum of leading Russian and U.S. NGOs is to take place in Moscow during Obama's visit.
"There are reasons to assume that President Obama will attend this meeting. He has expressed such a desire. But everything will depend on the program of his visit," Tatyana Lokshina, a deputy director of the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch, told Interfax on Thursday.
Other prominent figures from Russian NGOs also told Interfax about the possibility that Obama could meet with Russian and U.S. NGO activists, although no final decision has yet been made on this.
"The U.S. president might attend one of the meetings between NGOs during the forum. But there is no precise information on this so far," Lyudmila Alexeyeva, he head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, told Interfax earlier.
Alexeyeva said 25 members of the U.S. human rights community, including the heads of Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, Freedom House, and other NGOs, will be in Moscow. Several dozens of Russian activists from NGOs including the Moscow Helsinki Group, Memorial, For Human Rights, and others also plan to take part in the forum.
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