The EU and NATO are dissatisfied with the Ukrainian national security law and demand it be rewritten
A number of provisions of the bill “On the National Security of Ukraine” registered by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko contradict the practices of the European Union and NATO, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in a letter from the Chairman of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, the US Ambassador to Ukraine, the Head of the NATO Delegation to Ukraine and the Chairman of the European Union Advisory Mission to Ukraine, which published on her Facebook page People's Deputy, member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs Svetlana Zalishchuk, belonging to the parliamentary group of the so-called. “Euro-optimists” - grant eaters close to the US Embassy.
The text of the letter is addressed to the President of Ukraine, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
According to the document, this bill does not provide for parliamentary control over the activities of the Security Service of Ukraine, which is one of the fundamental requirements of NATO.
“The presidential administration and the SBU worked for 18 months with representatives of NATO and the EU on a document in this area, but in the end, they completely ignored these obligations,” Zalischuk wrote.
Also in the letter, diplomats express concern “in connection with the provision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters, which does not comply with NATO standards and principles and may have a significant negative impact on the principle of civilian control.
“Despite the fact that we asked several times to justify the preservation of the Headquarters and its powers, we never received any information,” the people’s deputy noted.
Diplomats separately talk about transparency in the defense sector, which is lacking in the law “transparency requires full disclosure of relevant information and information to bodies exercising public and parliamentary oversight (control) in order to ensure the effective use of financial resources in the field of security and defense (with the exception of state secrets and information related to capabilities and is classified)."
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