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Respected Deputies,
A group of deputies representing the factions Yabloko,
the SPS,
“Fatherland
– All Russia” and the deputies’ group “Russia’s Regions”
hereby submits
a
draft resolution on establishing a special parliamentary
commission to
investigate developments with the «Kursk» submarine.
We insist on the
foundation of an independent public deputies’ commission
to investigate
the
circumstances behind the death of our sailors.
This commission must be independent of the military
authorities, the
government and other executive authorities. We do
not think that the
task of
this commission should be to uncover the guilty parties
or draft some
organisational conclusions. Instead, its main task
is to examine the
reasons
for the extreme vulnerability of our political system
as a whole, its
inability to react
properly to emergencies and its total indifference
to the lives and
health
of the people.
We want to stress that we are especially concerned
about the
helplessness
demonstrated by the political institutions of the
executive authority in
a
situation of national and international significance.
The obvious
absurdity
or mercenary contradictoriness and cynicism of the
structures in charge
-
this very fact rather than the tragedy itself - created
conditions
bordering
on a political crisis in the country.
A question emerges: how can these structures be vested
with the main
powers
for this investigation? What grounds are there to
presume that the
inclusion
of two or three deputies in this commission will enable
it to conduct
honest
and objective analysis? There is no such certainty.
Moreover, there is
certainty of the opposite. In our opinion, we need
to analyse the data
from
many sources to comprehensively and fully ascertain
what actually
happened.
The issue needs to be investigated from different
aspects, including
information from the people who prepared the submarine
for its last
voyage,
who were responsible for its fighting capacity and
can tell a lot. One
commission, moreover a commission of the executive
authorities, will not
suffice, as it is not simply an investigation of
a historic even that
has
already taken place. This is first of all an attempt
to avert such
events in
future. This is the main thing, as there is a high
probability of this
occurrence. Such a commission must also, in our opinion,
investigate the
issues of financing and military preparedness training,
machinery and
equipment, everything necessary to prevent such tragedies
in the future.
Thank you.
See also:
The
situation around "Kursk" submarine
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