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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected international lawyer Mykola Gnatovsky as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights of Ukraine.
According to the head of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE and the people's deputy from the Servant of the People, our state has been delaying this appointment for 3 years. She noted that Gnatovsky's candidacy was supported by 167 out of 190 votes.
Ukraine has proved that it can be represented by professional international lawyers with recognized authority. Ukraine has done everything to select a judge from Ukraine, since this is important in the context of the legal struggle against Russia and the strengthening of human rights,” Mezentseva noted.
What is known about Ignatovsky
Until March 2021, Gnatovsky was the chairman of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and is an assistant professor of international law at the KNU. Taras Shevchenko. As an expert on human rights and international humanitarian law, he collaborated with the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE, the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Ignatovsky is the author of scientific and methodological publications on international and European law, human rights , international humanitarian law, international criminal law, the theory of international law, and the like. Next, Ignatovsky must take the oath of a judge for a nine-year term.
