The document was presented by the Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin.
The Federation Council has adopted a statement on the violation of believers’ rights in Ukraine.
Grigory Karasin, Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported on the issue.
He stated that the Kiev regime is consistently carrying out a policy of discrimination against believers in Ukraine.
“The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is being persecuted. An outrageous act of vandalism was the desecration of the Koran, the sacred book for Muslims around the world. This act is a direct consequence of the official Kiev policy of gross violation of the rights of representatives of ethnic and religious communities living in Ukraine. These events are causing anger and resentment among all citizens of Russia,” Grigory Karasin said.
The statement reads that the Federation Council strongly condemns the gross violation of believers’ rights in Ukraine, which are the result of the policy of religious intolerance pursued by the Kiev regime.
“The Ukrainian authorities are actually trying to impose a near-political structure as the official church on the people of Ukraine. Created with the support of the West, it calls itself the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”. At the same time, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is being persecuted,” the document says.
“This policy of the Ukrainian authorities grossly violates the right of every person to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, guaranteed by the fundamental international documents of the United Nations: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief,” the statement said.
The Federation Council called on the parliaments of foreign states and international parliamentary organisations to take a principled position and demand that official Kiev return Ukraine to comply with its international obligations, stop the policy of discrimination against believers and desecration of religious shrines.
The Federation Council called on the parliaments of foreign countries and international parliamentary organisations to take a principled stand and demand that Ukraine return to complying with its international obligations and stop the policy of discrimination against believers and desecration of religious shrines.
During the discussion of the document, speeches were made by Deputy Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Agriculture and Food Policy and Environmental Management Belan Khamchiev, Deputy Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Government and Northern Affairs Anatoly Shirokov, and member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Lyudmila Narusova.
The statement will be sent to foreign parliaments, the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member Nations, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, and the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states.