MFA: the COE Reports say about gross human rights violations in Ukraine

The findings of the international Advisory group of the Council of Europe on the events on the Maidan in Kiev at the end of 2013 and in Odessa 2014 are the only international documents which state the gross violations of human rights in Ukraine, said Russian foreign Ministry Commissioner Alexander Kurmaz.
"the most important is affected in the Ukrainian crisis, will simply say that two reports international Advisory group, established under the auspices of the Council of Europe, are the only international documents which state the gross, numerous and continuing violations of human rights in Ukraine ", ? RIA "news" the message the Deputy Director of Department of European cooperation of Karmasa made in an Open tribune in the Duma.
4 November the Advisory group presented its own report on the tragedy in Odessa. It said that the Ukrainian investigators failed to make significant progress. It was noted the insufficient level of independence of the investigation, taking into account the availability of evidence of belonging of employees of militia to the incident, and that the shortcomings in the investigation undermined the ability of the Ukrainian authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. The Advisory group felt that the Ukrainian proceedings of the conflict did not correspond to the European agreement on human rights (ECHR). Later official representative of foreign Ministry of Russia Maria Zakharova said that the report of the Advisory group of the Council of Europe on the events in Odessa speaks to the impossibility of carrying out impartial and effective investigation into the death of people in the House of trade unions. Reports on developments and human rights in Ukraine provided and other international organizations and missions, as well as among them the Observation mission of the UN, OSCE, OHCHR of the UN. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation a number of reports called biased and politicized. Remember, may 2, in Odessa in the process of confrontation with football fans and radicals from the "Right sector" supporters of federalization had to hide in the House of trade unions. Then Ukrainian nationalists set fire to the building, and those who tried to escape the fire, fired and finished off with sticks and stones. According to the interior Ministry of Ukraine, in the end, the riots died 48 people. Thus in the Ministry said that on the fire place in the House of trade unions were found traces of chloroform, this substance as if he had caused the deaths of 32 people. Six people died from gunshot injuries, another 10 dropped out of Windows during a fire and crashed. Russia has officially requested the organization for the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction investigation of the use of poisonous chemical substances in the course of the riots in Odessa on may 2.
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