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Parliament adopts amendments to the law on missing persons under special circumstances
Kyiv • UNN
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted draft law No. 11093 on the search for missing persons. The General Staff of the Armed Forces will create search groups, and the Coordination Headquarters will conduct negotiations in the occupied territories.
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted in the second reading a bill to amend Article 11 of the law "On the Legal Status of Persons Missing in Special Circumstances" (No. 11093). This was reported by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, according to UNN.
"The Rada has adopted a law (11093) on the legal status of persons missing under special circumstances. There were 295 votes in favor," Goncharenko wrote on Telegram.
As noted in the explanatory note, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is responsible for the formation of search groups to search for persons missing in special circumstances. They are created in coordination with the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which determines the procedure for conducting search operations by these groups.
The Coordination Headquarters is granted the right to organize and conduct negotiations with humanitarian missions, public associations and individuals operating and/or residing in the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, and other temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, in order to search for persons missing under special circumstances.
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The Unified Register of Missing Persons has been created in Ukraine . The register was developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the Commissioner for Missing Persons and other agencies.
Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets statedthat Ukraine has started collecting information on the collection of DNA samples abroad to search for missing persons on the territory of Ukraine.
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