The Council of Europe must actively be involved in monitoring the observance of human rights throughout the territory of Ukraine, said on Tuesday the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov..

" The Council of Europe is obliged to actively connect to the efforts of legal monitoring in Ukraine, not only in the South-East, as in other areas, as well as among them in Western Ukraine, continuously observed violations and excesses, as well as among them with the use of violence, " Lavrov said at a press conference on the results of negotiations with the Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.

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