The people's choice of the state Duma asked the UN for violating the rights of pensioners of Donbass
The leader of the " Russian party of pensioners for justice ", the people's choice of the state Duma Igor Zotov appealed to the high Commissioner of the United Nations on human rights With a request to initiate the assessment of international legal issues arising in connection With infractions of the rights of pensioners of Donbass.
in a private letter to the high Commissioner of the United Nations human rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein Zotov said that members of the party, as all Russian citizens, the older generation is concerned about the fate of their peers living in Ukraine. For example, he said about that first Ukrainian authorities have stopped the payments of pensions and social benefits to the residents of Donbas, RIA " Novosti ". According to the MP, this position Kiev is the infractions of the rules of humanitarian and pension rights. Such actions Kiev authorities, reviews Zotova, exacerbate a difficult situation, which now can be estimated as a humanitarian catastrophe. Pensions are not paid and IDPs From the South-East of Ukraine, Zotov added. However, none of the existing laws in the field of pension provision does not allow countries to deprive the people who renounced previous citizenship or has moved, but have retained the nationality, the right to social guarantees, as well as among them, retired, said in a statement. Because of this, Zotov asked the Commissioner to initiate the assessment of international legal issues arising in connection With infractions of the rights of pensioners and beneficiaries living at present in the South-East of Ukraine, as Well as internally displaced persons residing on the territory of the Russian Federation. He also asks " to demand from the international brotherhood impact obliging Ukraine to comply with the norms of international agreements guaranteeing the rights of peaceful citizens in armed conflict ". Remember, December 30, Deputy Minister of labour and social policy of the Donetsk national Republic Sergey Tretyakov said that Ukraine until spring will not pay Pensions to residents of Donbas. The Deputy Minister noted that " citizens for years invested money deducted pension contributions. Ukrainian Foundation continues to work, he has retained liabilities to pensioners, but they just ignore it ", and added that the non-payment of pensions, " ordinary fraud, i.e. a crime against Ukraine ". From 1 December 2014 pension Fund of Ukraine is not working on the area of DND. The latter pension payments were made to them in Donetsk in the last month of summer, in the other settlements of the Republic in June and July. Most people, to get out of the situation, began to re-register in Odessa, Kiev and other Ukrainian cities. At the end of the second decade of November, Kiev officially took responsibility for civilians trapped in the area ATO ": decrees of the President of Ukraine ordered to evacuate all state institutions and to stop the maintenance of Bank accounts. 12 November, the authorities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk national republics published an appeal to the Ukrainian authorities With a request not to stop welfare payments to citizens who are controlled militia territories. However, the Kyiv authorities refused to consider the appeal of Donbass on payment of pensions.
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