До Надзвичайного і повноважного посла України п. Володимира Хандогія звернувся “Союз українців у Великій Британії”. Українська громада занепокоєна фактамипорушення прав людини, що почастішали останнім часом, зокрема затримання директора музею-меморіалу “Тюрма на Лонцького” Руслана Забілого. Лист містить звернення до Президента України прояснити його позицію щодо дотримання права людини.
H.E. Volodymyr Khandogiy
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine
to the Court of Saint James’s Embassy of Ukraine
60 Holland Park London W11 3SJ
Open Letter
Mr Ambassador
Following the publication of Amnesty International’s briefing, Put deeds before words: Deliver human rights for Ukraine (April 2010), the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, Anna Herman, said that “the promotion and unconditional protection of human rights were under the direct control of President Viktor Yanukovych ”. Earlier this week, in an interview for the BBC, Foreign Minister Kostanyn Hryshchenko referred Ukraine’s objective on European integration.
Despite such prominent pronouncements (and, in this instance, leaving aside wider issues such as those contained within James Sherr’s Chatham House briefing paper, The Mortgaging of Ukraine’s Independence), we are extremely concerned to note the continued violations of Human Rights and press freedom in Ukraine as highlighted in the Ukraine Press Freedom – Temptation to Control report last week by Reporters Without Borders and the report carried by UNIAN yesterday afternoon (http://www.unian.ua/ukr/news/news-395079.html) about the detention of the Director of Lviv’s National Memorial Museum of the Victims of Occupational Regimes («Тюрма на Лонцького»), Ruslan Zabilyj…
Suppression of press freedom and Human Rights abuses will hardly help Ukraine realise her European aspirations.
We would therefore be obliged if you could clarify for publication:
- The President of Ukraine’s position on the Ukraine Press Freedom – Temptation to Control report.
- What concrete steps are to be taken in the immediate future to unconditionally safeguard absolute freedom of the press in Ukraine and the safety of journalists.
- What concrete steps the President has taken and will take to openly promote and unconditionally protect Human Rights in Ukraine in all respects.
We look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Yours sincerely
Zenko Lastowiecki Fedir Kurlak
President General Secretary
cc. Richard Bielby, FCO Ukraine Desk Ukrainian World Congress
10 September 2010
Додано 13.09.2010
