The situation for internally displaced persons in Ukraine

Reply to Written question | Doc. 14234 | 19 January 2017

Author(s):

Committee of Ministers

Origin

Adopted at the 1275th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (18 January 2017). 2017 - First part-session

Reply to Written question

: Written question no. 715 (Doc. 14146)

1. On the occasion of the examination of Written Question No. 715, the Ukrainian delegation provided the Committee of Ministers with detailed information on the allocation mechanism of welfare benefits to internally displaced persons in Ukraine. It also indicated that the Ukrainian Government, aware of the difficulties faced by some beneficiaries to collect their allowances due to the control system in place, had taken action in order to resolve these difficulties.

2. Another delegation indicated that the issue raised by Mr Jensen and, more generally, the matter of suspension of allowances to displaced persons, had already been raised by the Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Muižnieks, as well as other international bodies.