The Court of Appeal of Chernivtsi region on Saturday will consider an appeal by Chernivtsi City Council requesting a ban on rallies during a meeting of a subcommittee on international cooperation of the Ukrainian-Russian interstate commission.
“Chernivtsi City Council has lodged a lawsuit with the Court of Appeal of Chernivtsi region asking it to ban pickets of a meeting of the subcommittee on international cooperation of the Ukrainian-Russian interstate commission chaired by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, which will be held at the former residence of Bukovyna metropolitans on January 13,” the Web site of the Molody Bukovynets newspaper (molbuk.ua) reported with reference to head of the regional organization of the Front for Change Party Oleksiy Kaspruk.
“We notified the City Council about our intention to hold a peaceful assembly on January 13 near the airport and outside the Chernivtsi National University. But we were told about the lawsuit to the Court of Appeal, which should be considered today at 1400,” Kaspruk said.
In turn, Head of the Svoboda faction in the regional council Nazar Horuk said that the organization planned to hold several rallies on the Universytetska Street.
“We are planning peaceful protests not involving any illegal actions,” he said.
Horuk explained that in such a way the Svoboda Party was planning to protest against the talk with Russia on Ukraine’s possible accession to the Customs Union, and against the permanent interference of Russia into the internal affairs of Ukraine.
As reported, the foreign minister of Ukraine and Russia will chair the seventh meeting of the subcommittee on international cooperation of the Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental commission in Chernivtsi on January 13-14.
