Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Justice supported the draft on registered partnerships in Ukraine. DOCUMENT
This was reported by MP from the Voice party Inna Sovsun, Censor.NET reports.
"The Ministry of Defence has changed its position and supported the draft law on registered partnerships. But that's not all. The Ministry of Justice, which was supposed to develop an alternative draft law on partnerships, has also changed its position. Now it is ready to support my draft law," she said.
According to her, before that, "the negative conclusions of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Justice blocked further progress of the draft law in parliament".
In particular, the Ministry of Justice found flaws in the draft law "in terms of the lack of proper legal certainty", but this will not prevent MPs from voting for it. If the draft law is passed in the first reading, the Ministry of Justice is ready to make its amendments before the second reading. Now the decision is up to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
According to the MP, the Ministry of Justice assesses the draft law as "the first progressive step towards a constructive dialogue with society aimed at creating a legal mechanism for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms".
"According to the Ministry of Justice, if the draft law No. 9103 is adopted, Ukraine will fulfil its obligations under Article 8 of the Convention on Human Rights. And there will be no grounds for filing lawsuits against Ukraine in the European Court of Human Rights for discrimination," Sovsun said.
In his response, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov stated that the draft law on registered partnerships was supported in general. However, the clause stating that a military person's application for a partnership can be registered without his/her actual presence while the soldier is performing his/her duties is proposed to be applied only during martial law.
Draft law No. 9103 was registered in parliament on 14 March. It proposes to introduce a registered partnership (also called a "civil partnership") as a voluntary family union between two adults of the same or different sexes.
After registration, partners can acquire the status of close relatives, namely, a family member of the first degree of kinship to each other, regardless of whether they actually live together or run a household together. The authors of the draft law emphasize that they want to protect the rights of the military, as many of them cannot formalize their relationships because their partners are of the same sex.
