Authorities respond to petition against the ban on UOC
Voynalovych and Yelensky. Photo: facebook.com/repcu.org
Journalist Yulia Kominko published on her Facebook page a letter from the State Ethnopolitics regarding a petition against the ban on the UOC.
The author of the petition stated that this response contains “a gross violation of the Law of Ukraine No. 393/96-BP regarding the procedure for responding to an electronic petition and is a manifestation of disregard for the 25,000 citizens of Ukraine who signed the petition.”
“The Prime Minister of Ukraine had to publicly answer us what measures would be taken in order to resolve the problem outlined in the petition. Instead, we received a document signed by the first Deputy Chairman of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience with a list of general phrases about what the state knows what it is doing. What exactly the government is doing and how it plans to solve the situation is not reported,” Yulia Kominko wrote.
“What do we end up with? 25,000 citizens of Ukraine asked the government to take measures to resolve the issue with the UOC, given that the believers of the UOC take a patriotic position. However, some official of the tenth rank answered them on his personal behalf that “Moscow is killing our children,” she added.
“Let the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine find out where I am filing a complaint regarding why dear Mr. Viktor Voynalovych, who signed the answer to the petition of 25,000 citizens, assumed the functions of the Prime Minister of Ukraine. Anyway, it is obvious that this document is just a reply and evidence that the tools of democracy proposed by the state to address acute social problems do not work. This means that on the basis of value judgments and biased vision, the government will take repressive measures against its own citizens, limiting their constitutional right to freedom of religion,” summed up Yulia Kominko.
As the UOJ previously reported, Shmyhal instructed the State Ethnopolitics to respond to the petition against the ban on the UOC.
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