15:34 05.02.2018

Opposition Bloc insists on implementation of PACE resolution on humanitarian consequences of war in Ukraine

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The Opposition Bloc faction in parliament insists on the implementation of the PACE resolution on humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine and proposes respective measures to approve a resolution of the Ukrainian parliament.

"We insist that the parliament implement the PACE resolution on humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine and take into account the positions of the Minsk agreements when correcting the law. We are categorically against the laws that complicate the work of missions aimed at ensuring a diplomatic solution to the conflict," faction head Yuriy Boiko said at a meeting of the parliament's conciliatory council on Monday.

Faction members registered a draft resolution on the implementation of PACE resolution 2198 (2018) "Humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine."

According to the document, parliamentarians propose instructing the Verkhovna Rada committee on national security and defense to prepare amendments to the law on ensuring state sovereignty over temporarily occupied territories of Donbas so that the document is based on the Minsk agreements and fully guarantees the social protection of the civilian population.

In addition, the authors of the draft resolution propose instructing the Cabinet of Ministers within two months to offer the parliament a draft of amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedural Codes in order to bring them into line with international humanitarian law and international criminal law, amend Ukrainian legislation to facilitate the provision humanitarian assistance to war-affected territories, as well as to facilitate humanitarian demining.

At the same time, the draft resolution proposes ordering the approval of the procedure for the payment of pensions and all types of state social assistance to citizens who live in temporarily occupied territories.

In addition, the document contains a number of other proposals that were reflected in the PACE resolution.

In January 2017, the PACE adopted a resolution on humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine calling on the country to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and revise the new Ukrainian legislation on enforcing sovereignty in Donbas to make sure it is based on the Minsk agreements.

"The Assembly urges the Ukrainian authorities to revise the Law 'On the peculiarities of the State policy to ensure the State sovereignty of Ukraine over the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions,' to be based on the Minsk agreements and to fully guarantee the social protection and the basic humanitarian needs of the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," PACE said in its resolution.

It also urged Ukraine to ratify the Rome Statute and bring the Ukrainian Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code into line with international humanitarian and criminal law.

The resolution also calls on Ukraine to free Russian citizens detained in the course of hostilities and, until this is done, to allow independent international observers to monitor their condition.

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