The head of the people's Council of the Donetsk national Republic Andrey Burgin believes that the Ukrainian authorities violate the Convention on human rights, if you will not allow the holding of elections in Mariupol.
"Ukraine has made an unprecedented move for the suspension of human rights conventions. They were denied the right to vote. This military administration, Is a waiver of all rights, has Now been deprived of electoral rights "? Purgin said on the question of the abolition of elections in Kiev Mariupol, RIA " Novosti ".
"They have already deprived the people of the right to complain, to obtain information, to influence the local authorities. Now They have been deprived of the suffrage, which is not surprising", - has noticed the speaker of the Parliament of the Republic. Remember, a source in Ukraine's Central election Commission said that in Mariupol and other cities of the Donbas local elections decided not to perform. In July, the head of Lugansk regional military-civilian administrations Georgy Tuka said that elections to local authorities in Luhansk region should not be implemented because locals many supporters of the militia. On 6 August, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed the law " On local elections ". But the day before the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman said that the Ukrainian leadership is not going to hold local elections in the Donbas region and give the region a special status. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation announced that Kiev's actions as regarding constitutional reform and local elections in the Donbass do not meet the "spirit and letter" of a complex of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements. Donetsk and Lugansk national Republic declared independence on the results of the referendums held eleven may 2014 within, controlled by militias. May 24 at the Congress of Donetsk and Lugansk people's Republic signed a Treaty establishing the Union of people's republics ? Novorossia. In Kiev, DPR and LPR do not recognize. Against the February coup disgruntled residents of East Ukraine Kiev began in April a military operation.

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