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Let me just say a few remarks after of course thanking my colleagues
for agreeing to be on the panel, I see my task as chair of the panel
to also facilitate a potential discussion. So that has one positive and
one negative results. The negative is that I am asked to try and keep
our time and I ask my colleagues to excuse me if I intervene with the
request that they observe the time limits. When I was a very young
professor in my early thirties I went to a major conference in the
United States and the chairman of the panel became ill and I was of
course asked to chair and next to me was a very famous professor of
political science and I gave him the floor and he started talking and
the time passed and he kept talking, I passed him a little note and he
kept talking at one point I went to him and said, “the time” and he said,
“Young man! It is my business to talk, if you do not stop me I will keep
on talking”. So, I will try and apply that principle and we will proceed
in the order which the programme has been arranged so I will give
the floor first to our colleague the Ukrainian Parliament Commission
of Human Rights, Mrs., Valeriya Lutkovska and I will also at the end
of each presentation make some comments designed to be able to
facilitate discussion afterwards, Okay? Go ahead, you have the floor.

VALERİYA LUTKOVSKA (Ombudsman of Ukraine)

Thank you Chair and first of all thank you very much Chief Ombudsman
of Turkey for the invitation for this important and very interesting
symposium.
My theme is the mandate of the ombudsman of Ukrainian juridical
procedure, it is really very interesting question because in accordance
with our constitution, justice in Ukraine must be administrated exclusively
by the court. Delegation of the functions of the court and exercise of this
function by others officials shall not be permitted. Influencing judges in
any manner is prohibited. The judges are independent and subject to
rules of the law. In accordance with the legislation about the work of
ombudsperson and in accordance with our law about ombudsperson,
ombudsperson of Ukraine must close the procedure if this procedure
was opened in our office and must not open the procedure if the person
applies to the court with same question like the ombudsperson. So, the
question is how can ombudsperson be effective in the question of court
procedure because the application concerning the violation of human
rights we received very often.

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