Press on the Russian Federation and give us more weapons: Ukraine answered HRW to the report on forbidden mines in the Armed Forces
The state hopes that human rights activists will put pressure on the Russian Federation, which in a full -scale war uses the entire spectrum of forbidden weapons. This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine of January 31. According to the department, the report will be analyzed by Ukrainian institutions.
The Foreign Ministry was called the important Ottawa Convention and the Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Application of Specific Weapons on the Prohibition of "such inhumane weapons as anti -personnel mines. " At the same time, the Ministry has been hoped that HRW will put pressure on the Russian Federation with its partners, which in the war against Ukraine uses "the entire spectrum of inhumane weapons.
" The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that according to the Ottawa Convention, Ukraine has already destroyed 3 million anti-personnel mines, including reserves of extremely dangerous mines POM-3. At the same time, according to the Ukrainian side, the Russian Federation still uses all types of forbidden mines, including POP-3 "medallion", which are in danger of civilian. "The Ukrainian side has always been open to cooperation with international non -governmental organizations . . .
Last year a number of meetings with HRW representatives were held. In the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. According to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubin, the use of anti -personnel mines is indeed a problem, since in the last 9 years, which is ongoing Russian aggression, the territory of Ukraine has become the most polluted in the world with this type of weapons.
"I will explain one important thing - this problem exists because Ukraine resists the enemy since 2014. The enemy, who has much more different weapons and uses all his arsenal against our people," the Commissioner said. The Ombudsman added that Ukraine has already applied for a statement that it could not fully guarantee the implementation of the Ottawa Convention in connection with the war in 2018, and the Russian Federation is not a participant in this Convention.
Lubinets also noted that in order to confront the Russian Federation, which does not comply It has evidence that Russia makes every effort to discredit Ukraine, especially in order to weaken its military support. Therefore, we urge all partners to consider this factor before drawing conclusions about any accusations against Ukraine! " Sated Lubin. The Kharkiv Human Rights Group (CPG) and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights (UHHRU) prepared a joint statement that was outraged by the HRW report.
According to the heads of the organizations of Yevgeny Zakharov and Oleksandr Pavlichenko, they tried to stop the publication by contacting the Human Rights Watch management on January 29. Ukrainian human rights activists offered colleagues to first study the issues, consulting with them and the military from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, but this did not happen.
"Regardless of the correctness of the study, the publication of such a report carries significant reputational risks for Ukraine and will undoubtedly affect the efforts of the state to provide supplies of Western weapons. HRW, as well as Amnesty International, have considerable public confidence in Europe and the US propaganda and undermine public support for Ukraine's permanent military assistance by Western governments, ”the CPG and the UHHRU stated.
Human rights activists noted that one of the key principles of freedom of information dissemination shows that information is published only if the harm is less than the refusal It is now the object of aggression by the Russian Federation. "We are deeply outraged that HRW actually supports our enemy," Zakharov and Pavlichenko summarized. We will remind, in the published report HRW states that the Ukrainian army uses forbidden "mini-pestlets" PMF.