Expert: Instead of creating an international tribunal, he defended Umka and Pavelko. Andrei Smirnov is fired from the President’s Office
The President's Office is considering the resignation of Deputy Head Andrey Smirnov due to his failure in communication regarding the creation of an international tribunal. This information was shared on Facebook. informs Andrey Miselyuk, Director of the Dialogue Institute for Socio-Political Design, writes Anticorrosive.
According to his sources in the OP, Smirnov withdrew from this direction, and international experts believe that he does not have sufficient professionalism and could not coordinate this work from Ukraine“.
The political scientist said that the leadership of the President’s Office intends to rectify the situation and avoid the final loss of hope for the creation of a separate special international tribunal.
“To do this, this week will be announced the resignation of Smirnov from the post of deputy head of the OP and the appointment of an effective anti-crisis communicator and organizational manager in his place. The President and Ukraine need a brilliant success story here, not a shameful failure“, he quotes a source from the OP.
He believes that today for Ukraine there are virgin options for the development of events. The first is a bilateral agreement between Ukraine and the UN, which, after the support of the UN General Assembly, will provide the political support of the entire international community and will allow the creation of a separate tribunal. The second option is an internal court created by Ukraine, with the addition of an international element from the EU or the Council of Europe. In both cases, the initiative should belong to the Ukrainian side – that is, official Kyiv should take a proactive position – formulate and promote its vision. This is the work that should be done by our country, and no one except Ukraine can and will not do it.
Andrei Miselyuk stressed that now the prospect of creating a separate special tribunal, where Ukraine will play the main role and its criminal law is disappearing right before our eyes.
“According to my information, the president’s office is not at all happy with this prospect. The failure of efforts in this direction is blamed on the Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Chamber Andrey Smirnov, who oversees the legal direction“, he concludes.
At the same time, the deputy head of the President’s Office has time to resolve his own selfish issues and lobby the interests of his clients in the courts. So, recently it became known that his lawyers are defending the thief in law Umka – Sergei Oleinik. The media also reported that he was lobbying for the interests of the President and Secretary General of the Ukrainian Football Association Andriy Pavelko, who is accused of embezzling UAH 26.5 million.
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