Lawyers should evaluate the activities of the OUN-UPA, - historian
Lviv, November 11 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army still do not have official legal status in Ukraine, and this allows various political forces to speculate on the activities of these organizations, says Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexander Lysenko.
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According to Lysenko, instead of establishing its position on the OUN and UPA, the state acts extremely inconsistently and decentralized.
"The work of a working group of historians tasked with providing a historical assessment of the activities of the OUN and UPA is irrefutable proof of this situation. The group was established back in the 90s and was tasked with preparing a historical report on the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. This historical assessment was accepted. Lawyers were supposed to provide a legal assessment of the activities of these organizations, which has not yet been completed," said Oleksandr Lysenko, as quoted by the publication Vgolos.
“Today we do not have a legal internal legal and external legal assessment of the activities of the OUN and UPA. Various political forces are speculating on this. This is an absolutely unacceptable option. This would be impossible neither in Poland nor in Romania, which have a vital interest in resolving this issue at the state level. In our case, the State Institute of Law and other institutions did not fulfill the instructions to the government of Ukraine,” he added.
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