Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has asked the Justice Ministry to check political parties and public organizations that are suspected of promoting encroachments on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.
“I asked the Justice Ministry to verify the activities of the political parties and public organizations whose activities and statements have signs of a criminal nature. Anyone, no matter their status or position, having encroached on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, its sovereignty, and the inviolability of its borders, will be prosecuted according to the law,” he wrote on Facebook on Thursday morning, July 10.
Yatsenyuk noted that under a government order the Justice Ministry issued a lawsuit to ban the Communist Party of Ukraine.
“This is a ban not of a political party, but of those who undermine Ukraine’s independence, and fight against the Ukrainian state,” he said.
The premier said the Prosecutor General’s Office, Security Service (SBU) and Interior Ministry of Ukraine must hold an inquiry into the work of all persons, including those possessing the status of people’s deputy, and submitted relative files to the courts and to the parliament to cancel deputy immunity and bring to account “everyone, who support the terrorists, separatists and other bandits.”
As reported, in May 2014, the Justice Ministry sent to the PGO and SBU an inquiry to hold an investigation into the work of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In July the SBU handled the investigation files to the Justice Ministry.
On July 8, the ministry brought a suit to Kyiv’s District Administrative Court against the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
