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The planned simplified granting of Russian passports to citizens of Eastern Ukraine is encountering in several EU countries, with massive criticism. President Putin defended the project and refers to other countries.
The governments in Berlin and Paris, as well as the EU have criticised the simplified granting of Russian passports to citizens in Eastern Ukraine. "Together with France, we condemn the Russian decree, in order to facilitate the awarding of the Russian citizenship to the population in Parts of Eastern Ukraine," said the Foreign office on Twitter. These regions were part of the Ukrainian territory.
The Russian announcement "contradicts the spirit and objectives of the Minsk agreement," criticized the Foreign office with the aim of a peace settlement for Eastern Ukraine. "This is the opposite of the now urgently-needed contribution to de-escalation."
Moscow speaks of "humanitarian measure"Moscow announced the project yesterday. When President Vladimir Putin signed the decree provides that people in the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the East of Ukraine can in the future obtain in a simplified procedure, a Russian passport. Accordingly, the decision of the Russian authorities should not take over an application for longer than three months.
according to The decree, it is "to protect the rights and freedoms" of the citizens"". It was a "humanitarian" measure. The new rules-acclaimed "the generally accepted principles and norms of international Law".
Putin defended the project. In other countries it has long been practice that they issued Ukrainians passports, said the Kremlin chief. He pointed to Poland, Hungary and Romania. "If other countries - neighbors of Ukraine - to do this for many years, why can't Russia?"
