The PACE President: the need to redouble efforts to stop violence in Ukraine
Christina Moon Rodriguez. The PACE President Anne Brasseur believes that it is necessary to redouble efforts to end the violence in Ukraine.
"We do not forget about what is happening in Ukraine ", - She declared at a press conference, adding that " we must redouble our efforts to ensure that violent acts here (in Ukraine) has stopped ".
The PACE President also drew attention to the importance of the issues related to the organization of democracy in the country.
She recalled prepared In the current year, the report of the Advisory group of the Council of Europe on the events on Independence square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti).
The main Kiev square - Maidan Nezalezhnosti was occupied by supporters of European integration November 21, 2013, immediately after the statement of the government Mykola Azarov about temporary suspension of the signing of the Treaty on the Union with the EU. Later Maidan became the epicenter of confrontation between security forces and radicals. The clashes, during which the opposing political force many times had used firearms and " Molotov cocktails ", were dozens of casualties.
The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 7, 9 thousand people.