26 June 2012, 23:00
Igor Yurgens quits Human Rights Council under Russian President
Igor Yurgens, Vice-President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (known as RSPP), filed a petition of withdrawal from the Council for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under President of Russia.
"Dear Mikhail Alexandrovich, dear colleagues, I hereby inform you of my decision to quit the Council," states the petition of Igor Yurgens, published on the Council's website.
Igor Yurgens mentioned two reasons for his decision. "The RSPP has nominated me as a candidate for the position of Ombudsman for entrepreneurs' rights. The President has appointed Titov to the post of Ombudsman. It was a good choice. At present, by logic, Titov should deal with the rights of entrepreneurs, what I did in the Presidential Council," he said.
"The rules for the selection into the Council are changing. I do not want to participate in such a quasi-democratic selection. I will concentrate on other issues. I wish all the best for those persons, who will work in the Human Rights Council," the "Interfax" quotes the Vice-President of the RSPP.
Igor Yurgens became the seventeenth member of the Council, who left it. If this advisory body is left by three more persons, it will lose its quorum and legitimacy, the "ITAR-TASS" emphasizes.
