State must guarantee safe return home to IDPs

17:50, 30.10.2018 1 min read

The state must guarantee a safe return home to IDPs, said Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the All-Ukrainian Batkivschyna union party has said.

"The constituent of our peace strategy is the state-guaranteed opportunity for the safe return of internally displaced persons, internal refugees to their homes. We will create an absolutely transparent procedure for restoring the right of ownership to housing, land and property, and return to people all the things that have been dishonestly taken away with weapons," Tymoshenko said at the forum New Strategy for Peace and Security in Kyiv on Tuesday.

She also promised to create a "fund for the payment of material compensation, including for drugs and medical care."

Tymoshenko also stressed the need for close cooperation in resolving humanitarian issues with the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with other international organizations and Ukrainian non-governmental organizations.