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Milda Vainiute
Тhe head of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office Mr Augustinas Normantas met with an acting chairman the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Mr Serhiy Holovaty. At the beginning of the meeting, Mr Holovaty outlined in details the activities of the national body of constitutional jurisdiction, noting, in particular, significant amendments to the Constitution introduced in 2016, which also touched upon the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
According to the speaker, a number of innovations were introduced, among which, in particular, a new institute - an individual constitutional complaint by which a person can protect his/her rights. "The Constitution opened the door to the application of this institute, but for a long time it was impossible to apply it for formal reasons, in particular, because of the long adoption of the new Law on the Constitutional Court and its internal Rules of Procedure", emphasised Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
The head of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office, Mr Normantas, was pleased that a constitutional complaint became a reality in Ukraine and expressed the hope that the possibility of submitting a constitutional complaint would be enshrined in the Constitution of Lithuania soon too.
4 July 2018
The Seimas Ombudsman Augustinas Normantas and the Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis discussed the human rights issues in Ukraine with the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova. The Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner, upon her visit to Lithuania, at the meeting with the Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, expressed sincere thanks to the Lithuanian Parliament for the support to the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sencov, who was imprisoned in Russia. Recalling a resolution "On Oleg Sencov and other political prisoners" adopted by the Sėimas of the Republic of Lithuania on 27 June 2018, the Ukrainian Ombudswoman asked the Speaker of the Seimas to discuss this issue at the forthcoming meeting of OSCE Parliamentary Chairs.
During the meeting with the Ukrainian Ombudswoman, the Seimas Ombudsmen Augustinas Normantas and Raimondas Šukys pointed out that ombudsmen are intermediaries between the people and the authorities, and the Ombudsman should, therefore, be given an opportunity to meet with the citizens of her country on a humanitarian basis. The Seimas Ombudsmen promised the Ukrainian Ombudsman support at the international organisations in solving the issue of visiting Oleg Sencov and other political prisoners in the Russian Federation.
"This issue needs to be considered by the European Ombudsman Institute (EOI), whose member among others is the Ombudsman of the Russian Federation," said the Seimas Ombudsman, Mr Augustinas Normantas, who is also a member of the EOI Board.
4 July 2018
During a meeting with the Seimas Ombudsmen Augustinas Normantas and Raimondas Šukys, Ludmila Denisova, the Ukraine Commissioner for Human Rights, discussed the issue of developing a mechanism for involving European ombudsmen in finding a solution of the liberation of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia.
The ombudsman of Ukraine drew the attention of Lithuanian counterparts that she appealed to EU ambassadors at the EU-Ukraine summit recently to adopt a resolution on Ukrainian political prisoners. Furthermore, L. Denisova addressed the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunya Mijatovich with a proposal for the possibility of conducting a joint visit to Ukrainian political prisoner, a film director Oleg Sentsov, and other Ukrainian political prisoners detained in Russia.