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The Danish Helsinki Committee on Human Rights has said that the Council of Europe should not end its monitoring of the observance of rights and freedoms in Ukraine, former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko told reporters before her visit to the Prosecutor General's Office on Tuesday.

Tymoshenko said that yesterday she had met with ambassadors and the heads of diplomatic representative offices of European parties in Ukraine.

"Yesterday the ambassadors heard a special report by a person who was a prosecutor general in Denmark… Mr. [Mikael ] Lyngbo. He made a special report dedicated only to [former Ukrainian Interior Minister] Yuriy Lutsenko, showing with the example of Lutsenko’s case how the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office is operating in Ukraine, how the courts are working and what is going on with the system of justice," the Batkivschyna leader said.

According to Tymoshenko, the reporter drew "unfavorable conclusions."

"Following a study of materials and observations, the Danish Helsinki Committee has concluded that the monitoring of Ukraine should not end at this stage," the former prime minister quoted Lyngbo as saying.

The Batkivschyna leader pointed out that the same conclusion was drawn by human right activists following a study of the state of justice in Ukraine.

Tymoshenko also noted that Ukraine was being monitored by the Council of Europe, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had asked for this monitoring to end.