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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a law on lustration whose task is to clear the authorities of the country of the former Soviet secret police agents, as well as officials from the team ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
– I just signed a law on lustration. Glory to Ukraine! – the head of state wrote on Twitter.
Poroshenko announced the signing of the Law on lustration even last week. – I made a decision on the signing of the Act. An inspection will be carried out. The state apparatus is cleaned with agents of the KGB and the Party of Regions Yanukovych tops – said the head of state.
The Ukrainian parliament passed a law on lustration in mid-September. The document, whose official name is the
Vetting will be mandatory for those in state positions. Those who do not pass, they can not hold positions in the organs of power for up to ten years. According to the Minister of Justice Paul Petrenki verification will undergo nearly a million people.
Vetting will include persons who, during the period from February 2010. until 22 February 2014. worked in positions of president, prime minister, minister or serve in senior positions in the executive power. This means that it will be subject to vetting people from the team of Yanukovych, who ruled during this period.
Vetting touches the officials who resigned during the winter protests on Independence Square in Kiev, and people, who publicly called for separatism.
A separate group to be checked are the officials of the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as well as employees and agents of the KGB in the USSR and USSR.
According to the Attorney General Ukraine Vitaly Yarema lustration law in its current form does not correspond to the constitution and rules of international law.
The situation in Ukraine. The president signed a law on lustration – Money.pl
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