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UN monitors warn on human rights in E. Ukraine and Crimea

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16-05-2014 | 04:33

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Russia criticized a United Nations report on human rights in Ukraine on Friday, saying it lacked any semblance of objectivity, and accused its authors of following "political orders" to whitewash the pro-Western leadership.

The Foreign Ministry said the report ignored "the crudest violations of human rights by the self-proclaimed Kiev authorities."

Earlier, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said that the United Nations monitors in Ukraine have found an alarming deterioration in the human rights situation in the east of the country and serious problems emerging in Crimea.

"Those with influence on the armed groups responsible for much of the violence in eastern Ukraine (must) do their utmost to rein in these men who seem bent on tearing the country apart," Pillay said in a statement accompanying the 37-page monitoring report.

International positions:

The German government on Friday welcomed apparent progress in 'round table' talks in Ukraine but said international monitors had evidence of grave human rights abuses by pro-Russian groups in annexed Crimea and in the east of the country.

Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said the German chancellor was glad that talks would continue this weekend in the east Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. But he said Berlin was very concerned by an OSCE report on the human rights situation.

"There are cases of intimidation and, even worse, of abuse, torture, disappearances and murder, especially in the east and south of Ukraine. The Russian accusation that the rights of the Russian minority are being violated are not supported by this OSCE human rights report," Seibert told a news conference.


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