PACE Rapporteur on missing persons in Ukraine has no plans to visit the region
Christina Luna Rodriguez. PACE Rapporteur on the problem of missing persons in Ukraine Jim Sheridan is not going in the near future in the area of conflict.
"No plans," he said Last news .
in the report, which will be discussed in the Assembly on Wednesday, noted that " the only way to resolve the issue of missing persons is a common action by all parties to the conflict ".
"For this reason, PACE invites Ukraine, Russian Federation and separatist groups, which control the occupied territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions to take effective measures to investigate and assist the families of missing persons in Accordance with international humanitarian law ", - the document says. The report Creator requests to establish a General mechanism(working group), which deals with missing persons. Sheridan also asked " to provide access to the tombs ". He advocates the need for data collection DNA missing.
Separately, the speaker tried to persuade the Ukrainian side to make a specific political mechanism for the coordination of state and non-state bodies that deal with the issue of the missing ". And also to provide them with necessary financial support operations to search for missing persons. In addition, Sheridan said about the need to make a " payment mechanism and assistance from the country to the families of the missing ".
Sheridan asks the Russian authorities "to release all hostages, illegally seized on the territory of Ukraine" and " to make the national machinery is seized and missing during the conflict in Ukraine."
He also asked the Russian authorities " to influence a group of separatists who control the occupied Donetsk and Lugansk regions, so they will be freed without delay, all civilians, captured on the territory they control ". Sheridan considers it necessary to do a special mechanism " to address issues of captured and missing in the process of the conflict in Ukraine ".
Sheridan called for the involvement to the problem of the missing Council of Europe's Commissioner for human rights.
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