UN officials discuss payment of pensions to local residents during visit to DPR
DONETSK. Feb 4 (Interfax) - UN representatives have visited the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) to discuss the issue of paying pensions to Donbas residents by the Ukrainian side.
"UN representatives - Chief of the Europe and Central Asia Section [at the UN Human Rights Office], Hulan Tsedev, and Alexandre Girard, an employee of the Human Rights Office - visited the [DPR] human rights commissioner on January 29. Both of these guests are from the UN Headquarters in Geneva. They discussed issues concerning the Ukrainian side's failure to pay pensions, as well as reports on destruction, and atrocities, committed by volunteer battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the territory of the DPR," the DPR human rights commissioner's chief of administration, Dmitry Popov, told reporters.
In the past three months, the UN mission has visited ten cities of the self-proclaimed republic to document the destruction caused by the Ukrainian side's attacks, he said.
"We continue to jointly monitor the territories. On February 2, we visited the town of Ilovaisk together with UN representatives. We spoke to residents of Ilovaisk. All in all, in the past three months, we have visited ten cities of the DPR together with the UN," Popov said.
Hopefully, the results of monitoring by UN representatives and all recorded violations of human rights by the Ukrainian side will be mentioned in special UN reports, he added.
