A number of non-government organizations (NGO) have called on President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to veto a law previously adopted by the parliament on the legal status of persons forced to leave their homes due to the temporary occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as circumstances related to the anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine.
“The new law, we now require be vetoed, declares things that need further regulation, but, it does not give us the solution to any of the issues,” the chairperson of the Crimean Human Rights Center Action and East SOS initiative, Oleksandra Dvoretska, said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.
The head of the NGO Almenda Center for Civic Education, Olha Skrypnyk, in turn, noted that the law was passed in violation of the rules – there was no conclusion of the main expert department of the Verkhovna Rada, in fact the legislative initiative has not passed the profile committee.
According to her, the document contains a number of other shortcomings, and that is reason enough to veto it.
Skrypnyk noted that the law on the legal status of persons who were forced to leave their homes in Crimea and the ATO area introduces the concept of “a temporary migrant.”
The public activist explained that “the use of this terminology will lead to serious misunderstandings when working with international organizations.”
“Recourse to international organizations will be greatly complicated, it is likely to become even impossible. The use of this term cannot lead to effective work with international institutions, because international laws use the term “internally displaced person.”
