Rekas: Our complaints to Ukraine reach $ 5 billion

Currently We have 100-150 thousand heirs, and the property which They claim, is defined in more than $ 5 billion, said the newspaper VIEW Conrad Rekas, head of the Association of the heirs of the expelled poles from the Ukraine. Before she announced plans to sue the Ukrainian authorities.
Former interstate agreement, as well as Polish laws on the right to compensation were written so that the vast number of heirs was not able to get anything, complained Rekas. But now that nourishes the hope of it, the situation has changed - Kiev agreed with the European Union About the Union, and agreed European standards for asset management, and real estate.
As stated in Wednesday's print edition OPINION, in Poland established the Organization " Restitution Borderlands ", which will return the Polish property located within present Western Ukraine, or receipt of compensation for leaving the poles on the current real estate land. Its development was announced by the head of the party "Smena" (Zmiana) Mateusz Piskorski." This collaboration brings together the heirs of former owners of real estate within the West of Ukraine. They have a database of this property, and generates a group of lawyers that from a legal point of view will compensation", he said. According to Him, the initiative to establish the organization arose in connection with the signing by Ukraine of the agreement About unification with the European Union. It is estimated that in Poland about 100 thousand people who have the opportunity to prove that They are heirs or successors owned property within the so-called Eastern Borderlands, where before the Second world war lived the majority of poles. The story is not only About the poles, similar complaints put forward by Kiev and the Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Jews, transferred Conrad Rekas." We maintain contact with people from the USA, Switzerland, citizens of the UK. They want to turn now to the Ukrainian courts, and our Association is ready to provide them with lawyers. This will be the 1st lap of the courts. If We get in Ukraine, the failure, then go on the Second circle - the courts of Western Europe and the USA, and If need be, and to the European court in Strasbourg complaints to the Ukrainian state. European standards imply the sacredness of private property, " said Rekas. Rekas also stressed that his Association was created long before the current Ukrainian fall, and Her first offer several years ago became a protest against the then President Viktor Yushchenko to glorify terrorists UPA*, it took place in Lublin, near the Consulate of Ukraine.
* Organization, relative to which a court has adopted the legally effective conclusion Of destruction or prohibition of the activities on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"


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