The message about the right of Ukraine to retreat from a number of international legal obligations can be explained by the desire to provide a "free hand" on human rights, But this step may be an attempt to legalize the violations that have already occurred in Ukraine, said the Head of the presidential Council on human rights (HRC) Mikhail Fedotov.

on Thursday, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the message on the right of Ukraine to retreat from a number of international obligations to protect human rights in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions in connection with the conduct of military operations, the decision on the meeting of Parliament supported 249 parliamentarians with the necessary minimum of 226 votes. The foreign Ministry has been instructed to inform about it the UN Secretary General and Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

The head of the HRC considers a bad omen message Happy. In the best case it can be regarded as a kind of advocacy action, He said.

"But it could mean something else: this may mean that the deputies did not want to perform Minsk consensus, and intend to do the opposite, Namely, to violate the rights of their own Residents," Fedotov said Fins news . For this reason the message of the Ukrainian Parliament concern, He added." I am sure that the way to resolve the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine is not a violation of human rights and compliance ", - noted the Head of the HRC.

in addition, today's Council decision may be an attempt to legalize past human rights violations, said Fedotov." They are trying to provide a "free hand" on human rights, But has the ability to be another explanation - that the Ukrainian deputies are trying to legalize the violations of human rights, which had already taken place in Ukraine ", - suggested the Head of the HRC.

He said that a departure from the obligations in the field of human rights permitted by article fifteen of the European Convention on human rights, however, the same document defines a range of rights, from which it can never depart, for example the right to life, prohibition of torture, prohibition of forced labour. It turns out my decision of Ukraine's Parliament warns that it will not be respected freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of Assembly and Association, privacy, the right to a fair trial, said Fedotov.

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