По благословению Святейшего Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла
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Representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church visited Strasbourg and had several meetings in the Council of EuropeThe representative of Ternopil and Kremenets diocese, hegumen Gerontius, rector of St. John Merciful Monastery, and the
legal adviser of the Kyiv Metropolis and also chief of the human rights
organization "Public Advocacy" Mr. O.Denisov had a meeting at the
Council of Europe with the Commissioner of Human Rights Mr. Nils Muiznieks. The
representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Council of Europe hegumen Philip
(Ryabykh) accompanied them at the meeting. On December 15th, the same Church representatives
had a meeting with the Council of Europe’s Director General of Democracy, Ms Snežana
Samardžić-Marković. At the meetings there were discussed the situation of human
rights in the Western Ukraine due to the increasing number of seizures of the
temples of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
Special attention was paid to the consecutive statements of the Ternopil
regional council, which contain conflictual language against Pochayiv Lavra. Members
of the local government bodies are involved in its application and they claim
that Laura is a "anti-Ukrainian centre”,
which supports the separatism and the "russifying" the Ukrainian
people. Such statements are examples of hate speech and, according to human
rights defender, promote the religious hatred, and therefore inadmissible. The attention of the Council of Europe was drawn to
the egregious violations of human rights that occur in the village Katerinovka
Ternopil region. The authorities used force unnecessarily and the police beat
more than 13 parishioners of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church near the
temple, which belongs to them. Another issue of discussion was the conflict in
the village of Rivne region in which the UOC, cannot use the church building as
the legal owner, despite the positive court’s decision because it is captured
by the supporters of the so-called “Kiev Patriarchate”. Mr Oleg Denisov mentioned that, "in all cases of violations
of human rights the UOC addressed to the police, as well as to public
authorities, to the Commissioner of Human Rights of the Supreme Council of
Ukraine, sent applications to the President of Ukraine and to the governors of
the respective areas and turned to the courts. However, if the courts considered
the applications of believers quite objectively and if they defended justice,
the executive and the law enforcement system which would have taken effective
measures to bring to the justice the perpetrators responsible for the seizure
of power, did nothing to prevent conflicts. A human rights activist said: "It seems that in some
cases the central government and regional administrations consciously support the
Kiev Patriarchate in their initiatives to bring the communities of the UOC into
their jurisdiction, even when the faithful claim that they did not take a
decision on the transition to the Kiev Patriarchate and the local authorities surely
know about the existence of the communities of the UOC. Some government
representatives forced the parishioners of the UOC to transfer their property
into the possession of the supporters of the Kiev Patriarchate, covering the
so-called "alternate" use of the temple and ignoring the fact that
the property owner is not required to "share" it with others,
especially under the threat of violence. For this reason, there is a law enforcement
system to protect citizens from such unlawful attacks". To summarize his words, Mr. O.Denisov said: "Due
to the fact that conflicts become widespread, we addressed to the international
human rights organisations, specially designed to deal with such cases. Such
appeals are the undisputed right of believers and should be considered as part
of the normal activity of any human rights group, which claims that its rights are
systematically violated. In particular, we have already prepared and submitted
an application to the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in other
international institutions". Following the meeting, an agreement was reached with
representatives of the Council of Europe on future cooperation in the
protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Ukraine. |
«Мы несем ответственность за то, что происходит в этой цивилизации (Европе), на основании своего собственного исторического уникального опыта, через который не прошла ни одна европейская страна в XX веке. Это в нашей стране строилось общество без Бога. Мы знаем, что это за система. Исходя из этого, мы выражаем готовность участвовать в диалоге с Вами и со всеми заинтересованными силами в Европе для того, чтобы размышлять о нашем общем будущем» (Встреча с генеральным секретарем Совета Европы Т.Ягландом, 21 мая 2013 года, Москва)
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