The GPU is ready to cooperate with the ICC to investigate the events on Maidan

The Prosecutor General's office of Ukraine is ready to cooperate with the office of the Prosecutor of the international criminal court to investigate the events on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv in November 2013 and February 2014, is notified to the Internet the Ukrainian representative office on Tuesday.

about this position Kiev was stated at the meeting authorized the Hague Tribunal Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy aremay. As notified on the Internet office of the DPP, before one of people's deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of disseminated data about the refusal of the attorney General Yarema assistance from prosecutors of the international Tribunal in the investigation of the events on Maidan. The Ministry denied this information.

" It is the chief Prosecutor's office of Ukraine initiated the direction of the evidence gathered by committing crimes against humanity during the events on Maidan in the international criminal court, which became the impetus for the visit prosecutors ISS in Ukraine ", - said in the report.

according to the Agency, the results of the visit of the delegation of the ICC reflected in the report of the office of the Prosecutor of the ICC on the preliminary investigation of the events of 2014, which sets forth the results and future work." The office of the Prosecutor of the ICC will continue to collect, verify and analyze data in order to select whether a reasonable basis to believe that transgressions committed during Euromayday in Ukraine fall under the jurisdiction of the international criminal court " - leads the SE website the text of the document.

in Ukraine, 22 February, there was a coup d'etat. The Verkhovna Rada on February 25, asked the ICC to connect to liability under the criminal code in this court former senior officials of Ukraine, in which the former leader Viktor Yanukovych, former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka and former interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, for " transgressions against humanity " during the winter protests. The Prosecutor of the ICC on April 25, opened the pre-study the situation in Ukraine.

on the next day after the statement of the government of Mykola Azarov on the temporary suspension of the signing of the Treaty of Union with the EU, supporters of European integration has occupied the main square of Kiev - Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square). Later Maidan became the epicenter of conflict between the security forces and active participants: the fiercest battles took place here on the street adjacent to the square. Numerous protests, called " euromilano held throughout Ukraine. The result of fights on the street, in which opposing political force many times used small arms and Molotov cocktails, were dozens of casualties.


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