The bill (Reg. No.7252) presents a
new version of the Law "On Refugees." In contrary to the effective Law, the
bill sets the order for recognizing an individual as a refugee or a person in
need of additional or temporary shelter, regulates loss or deprivation of such
status, and offers a legal status for the above-mentioned individuals in
Ukraine.
The bill takes into account the Convention on status of refugees of 1951, and the Protocol concerning status of refugees of 1967. It improves the legislation on refugees, considering the acts on migration and those adopted by the Council of the European Union.
Regional Representative of the Department of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Republic of Belarus, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine Oldrich Andrysek, Governmental Representative in the European Court of Human Rights, V. Lutkovska, and Representative of the Ombudsperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine V. Tereshchuk attended the meeting.
The participants also focused on the importance of the said bill, since the Ukrainian migration legislation needs amending.