Members of the human rights Council will take part in the meeting Pamfilova with his Ukrainian counterpart
The members of the ad hoc working group on monitoring human rights in area of Ukraine, members of the Council for human rights under the RF President (the HRC) Elizabeth Glinka, Sergei Krivenko, Ella Polyakova and Andrei Yurov will participate In the meeting of the Commissioner on human rights in the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova with her Ukrainian counterpart, Valeria Lutkovska in Kharkiv on the last working day of the week.
" The main topic of discussion will be cooperation and monitoring the situation with human rights in the South-East of Ukraine - in Donetsk and Lugansk regions ", - is informed in the report of the Council.
first of activists and human rights activists in Ukraine and Russia, which monitors human rights violations in Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, appealed to the Ombudsman 2 countries with a request to launch a common effort to stop mass human rights violations in the area of conflict.
The meeting was to take place even before the official ceremony of taking office of the President of Ukraine, however Lutkovska asked to postpone it for a while after the official ceremony of taking office. Pamfilova said then that is ready at any moment to meet with Lutkovska, as soon as she chooses. On Tuesday Lutkovska turned to Pamfilova with the initiative to meet on 13 June in Kharkiv.
In addition Pamfilova and members of the HRC, from the Russian part In meeting will take part the head of the " Civil assistance " Svetlana Gannushkina, Executive Director of the movement " for human rights " Lev Ponomarev and Board Members of the human rights centre " memorial " Oleg Orlov and Alexander Cherkasov.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.