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General European values, namely pluralistic democracy, supremacy of law and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms were accepted by Ukraine and declared as principles of its societal development. These very values have to determine the nature and character of relationship between a human-being and the state in our country. The fundamental acts that Ukraine should use as guidelines while implementing the strategic course onto the European integration, in particular – Statute of the Council of Europe 1948, European Convention on protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms 1950, Copenhagen criteria of EU membership 1993, Activity Plan “Ukraine – EU”, Activity Plan “Ukraine – NATO” – clearly determine the necessity for implementation of these principles into the practice of functioning of the political system in Ukraine.
According to the Constitution of Ukraine 1996 Ukraine is declared a democratic state (Article 1), which recognizes and exercises the supremacy of law principle (Article 8). As the Constitution determines the rights and freedoms of a human-being together with their guarantees determine the content and trend of the state’s activity, the establishment and provision of the rights and freedoms of a human-being is the main responsibility of the state and the state is responsible for its activity to a human-being (Article 3).
In the system of executive power bodies the Ministry of Justice is supposed to fulfill the mission of the state legal policy provision, the core aspects of which are supremacy of law establishment and provision of human rights and freedoms.
In the course of the establishment and development of the Ministry of Justice since the declaration of independence by Ukraine there have been multiple attempts to determine or even rethink the role and place of the Ministry in the system of power bodies, put them into compliance with the objectives that occur from the functions assigned to it.
Given this the Ministry started the number of initiatives aimed on supremacy of law enactment and establishment of the effective system of human rights protection.
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