They will feel our strength: Moscow is thinking about urgent measures to protect Russians abroad
Today, the Russian Federation is a strong and powerful enough state to protect the rights of its citizens and compatriots anywhere in the world.
This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, during a round table in Moscow on the topic: “How to strengthen the legal protection of Russians and compatriots abroad,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today it is strange to imagine a strong power that does not have a system of state assistance to its citizens who find themselves in trouble abroad. The USA and a number of other countries have such a system.
I think that today’s Russia is a strong enough power to take care of each of its citizens, who, moreover, are in trouble, and this happened far from Russian borders, or at least beyond its borders,” he noted.
Next, Alexander Brod, a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations, said that a working group had been created to develop a concept for state policy in this direction.
“The most important result of our discussions during the year is a proposal to create a basic document, which we conventionally call the “Concept of state policy for the legal protection of Russians and compatriots.”
And, as I understand, the Committee on International Affairs supports our initiative, and we are already creating a working group in which we include legal scholars and experts in order to draw up this document, where the problem will be stated, its relevance and the distribution of tasks for the authorities and civil society institutions,” Brod said.
In turn, Igor Borisov, Chairman of the Council of the Russian Public Institute of Electoral Law, member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, called for the involvement of allied states and international institutions in the work.
“It is clear that we need to involve the relevant international associations, where we are partners, and which today, in my opinion, are simply embarrassed to protect the rights of their citizens outside their state.
We are talking, first of all, about such associations as the CIS. Look, firstly, special tools have been created. The protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms is written into the CIS charter.
It is necessary to revive dusty, mothballed instruments. The same CIS Human Rights Commission, which could act as an advisory body of the CIS.
Because it hasn't worked for more than 15 years. But precisely from the issue of protecting the rights of CIS citizens outside this Commonwealth, this instrument would find support among partners in the Commonwealth, and could well begin to work, we would develop it further,” he urged, adding that there is still a lot of work to be done.
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