Lawyers of Charitable Foundation ‘Vostok-SOS’ applied to President of Ukraine Peter Poroshenko in connection with the statement of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov about ostensibly necessary checks of the residents of the Non-Government Controlled Areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and occupied by Russia Crimea before getting of biometric passports.
‘On June 22, 2017 on the official website of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine the statement of NSDC Secretary mister Alexander Turchynov about the necessity of carrying on thorough checks of all who wish to get a biometric passport, , arriving from NGCA, was promulgated. According to the text of the appointed statement of NSDC Secretary the ‘dangerous that under the guise of Ukrainian citizens from the occupied territories, the access to visa-free regime could get separatists, citizens of another country, terrorists or representatives of Russian special services’, tells the circulation of CF ‘Vostok-SOS’.
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CF representatives CF ask:
- To promulgate the text of the bill, referred to in the statement of the NSDC Secretary of June 22, 2017 and which must regulate the issues of carrying out the checks of NGCA residents, when applying for a passport of a citizen of Ukraine for traveling abroad;
- To carry out antidiscrimination examination of the text of the bill and to publish its results;
- To carry out public discussion of this draft law with the involvement of experts and representatives of human rights organizations;
- Further refrain from such discriminatory statements on behalf of the National Security and Defense Council, since such statements contradict the stated policy aimed at the reintegration of the population of NGCA.
- We would remind that ‘it’s necessary to ‘carry out a thorough check of all who wish to get a biometric passport, arriving from NGCA’. The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has reported about it, facility press-service wrote