Pavlo Petrenko: The sum of losses Ukraine suffers from occupation of Crimea makes up UAH 950 billion
“Today,
April 28, 2014, the Law “On ensuring rights and freedoms of the citizens and the
legal regime in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine” has come in
effect. I want to remind that pursuant to the Law Ukraine acknowledges the temporarily
occupied territories an integral part of our country where the Constitution of
Ukraine and the laws of Ukraine are in effect. Besides, the Law contains that,
any state property object situated on the territory of Crimea remains the property
of Ukraine and complete material responsibility for the losses caused to the
state companies, ministries and departments is placed just to the Russian
party,” the Justice Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Petrenko announced during a briefing at the Cabinet of
Ministers of Ukraine.
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According to him,
the Justice Ministry has summarized and systematized the information received
from national ministries and departments concerning those losses caused by
the occupation of Crimea. “As of today, the
sum of such losses makes up UAH 950 billion. These losses don’t include lost
profits that will be calculated additionally. Moreover, these losses doesn’t
include the cost of minerals, sea shelf and in fact these are losses which
are direct and those caused by illegal seizure and creating barriers to use
of property for our national companies, ministries and departments,” the Minister
stressed. He informed that the
National Defense and Security Council in the course of discussion at today’s
meeting of an issue of future legal mechanisms of protection of Ukraine’s
interests had supported an initiative of Prosecutor General of Ukraine and the
Justice Ministry of Ukraine to submit relevant additional claims to the
European Court for Human Rights (pursuant to the provisions of the Protocol
of the European Convention on Human Rights that envisages indisputable
protection of property rights of all the subjects that have been violated by the
Russian Federation). Pavlo Petrenko stressed due to the provisions of the Law “On ensuring
rights and freedoms
of the citizens and the legal regime in the temporarily occupied territory of
Ukraine” there had appeared additional legal mechanism of protection of the interests
of the country in disputes with the occupying forces, that is – a possibility
to bring everyone guilty to justice as accomplices. |