The Svoboda party has called on the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to file a criminal case against the delegates to the Congress of Carpathian Ruthenians, who declared the Republic of Carpathian Ruthenia on October 25, for encroaching on Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders.
The Svoboda party made the call inn a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
≪Zakarpattian separatists led by Moscow Patriarchate priest Sidor are issuing an ultimatum to the Ukrainian authorities today. Tomorrow, armed with Russian passports and money from the Kremlin, they will implement the ‘Georgian scenario’ in Ukraine,≫ the statement said.
The Svoboda party also called on President Viktor Yuschenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to issue a political assessment of the actions in Zakarpattia and the Crimea, called on the National Security and Defense Council to draft a plan for preventing separatist actions, and called the Foreign Affairs Ministry to declare all the foreign citizens that participated in the October 25 congress as persona non grata in Ukraine.
Moreover, the party called on the Prosecutor-General’s Office to file a lawsuit demanding cancellation of the Zakarpattia regional council’s decision of March 7, 2007, that recognized the Ruthenian ethnic group on the territory of the Zakarpattia region.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, over 100 people protested near the Mukacheve municipal council building (Zakarpattia region) on October 25 to demand recognition of the Republic of Carpathian Ruthenia, which participants in the European Congress of Carpathian Ruthenians declared on Saturday.
The congress was attended by 109 delegates.
The Ruthenians signed a declaration act on creation of a Ruthenian nation, declared the creation of the Republic Carpathian Ruthenia based on its status as of November 22, 1938, and elected an executive government.
Deputies of the Zakarpattia regional council decided at a session on March 7, 2007, to recognize the Ruthenian ethnic group on the territory of the Zakarpattia region and include it on the list of ethnicities in the region.