Crimes against civilians in Ukraine must be probed under intl control - Russia
MOSCOW. May 26 (Interfax) - Russia wants an effective, transparent and unbiased probe launched into human rights abuses and crimes against civilians in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
On May 26, the Foreign Ministry's Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov met in Moscow with chairman of the Group of the Unified European Left in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Tiny Kox.
"The Russian side reaffirmed its advocacy of an effective, transparent and unbiased investigation under international control with the participation of the Council of Europe, into the crude violations of human rights and crimes against civilians committed in Ukraine, including the tragedy in Odesa on May 2," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website.
It said, "those guilty must be punished."
Dolgov drew Kox's attention to an "acute humanitarian rights situation in Ukraine in the context of the Russian Foreign Ministry's White Paper of violations of human rights and of the principle of rule of law in that country," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.