The Ministry of justice of Ukraine: more than 350 bureaucrats fired legally on lustration
Dismissal law on lustration (the cleansing power) has been 357 Ukrainian bureaucrats, said on Thursday the Minister of justice of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko.
" Those who have passed a lustration and were dismissed at the first stage is the officials of the rank is Deputy Ministers, heads of Central Executive bodies, top managers of law enforcement agencies is 357 persons, " said Petrenko in broadcast television channel " Ukraine ".
The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has approved the interim report of the Ukrainian law on lustration last week. However, the document notes that the law has some significant shortcomings." The device did not explain what those disadvantages are discussed. Employee of the office of the Council of Europe also said that in the report the Commission welcomes the intention of the Ukrainian authorities to work together with the Venice Commission on improvement of the legislation and bring it into congruence with the Constitution of Ukraine and European standards ".
later the Ukrainian authorities agreed with representatives of the Venice Commission on the consultation on improvement of the legislation.
The Parliament of Ukraine with the 3rd attempt blesed on September 16, the lustration law, which is subject to one million various bureaucrats, public servants, employees of the police organization, and among them the entire Cabinet of Ministers. As warned by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaliy Yarema, the law is not in conformity with the Constitution and the requirements of international law.
in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation considered that the law on lustration in fact legitimize political persecution in Ukraine.