09:19 01.11.2013

Cox, Kwasniewski find Labunska's bill on treatment of convicts abroad most acceptable

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Cox, Kwasniewski find Labunska's bill on treatment of convicts abroad most acceptable

The members of the European Parliament's observation mission - former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski and former European Parliament President Pat Cox – have said that the bill on treatment of convicts abroad submitted by independent parliamentarian Anzhelika Labunska is the optimum for reaching a consensus in the issue of treatment convicts abroad.

"Our mission has studied all of the draft laws on medical treatment abroad of convicted persons. We have come to the conclusion that the Labunska draft offers the best available basis on which to generate and seek the necessary consensus between government and opposition parties," the observers said in a statement that was passed to Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

"We urge all the government and opposition parties in the Verkhovna Rada to make every effort to reach a consensus on the legislative steps forward and to do so as a matter of urgency," Cox and Kwasniewski said.

Labunska's bill, which was submitted to the Ukrainian parliament on October 22, says that convicted persons may be allowed to go abroad for medical treatment if year-long uninterrupted medical treatment at a hospital located outside their penitentiary fails to heal them completely. Besides, this document also offers the court to simultaneously take a decision to exempt such person from punishment due to their illness.

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