THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE
ORDER
of March 17, 2022 № 228-r
Kyiv
On determining the state enterprise performing the functions of the National Information Bureau
In order to fulfill Ukraine’s obligations in the field of international humanitarian law:
- To determine that the state enterprise “Ukrainian National Center for Peacebuilding” (hereinafter – the state enterprise), which belongs to the sphere of management of the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, performs the functions of the National Information Bureau in accordance with the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949.
- The Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories shall ensure that the state enterprise performs the functions of the National Information Bureau in relation to prisoners of war held since February 24, 2022.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall inform the International Committee of the Red Cross about the performance of the functions of the National Information Bureau by the state enterprise.
- The Ministry of Defense shall bring its own regulations, in particular the Instruction on the Procedure for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in line with this order.
- Ministries, other central executive bodies, heads of regional and Kyiv city military administrations, together with other state bodies, shall provide the state enterprise with the information necessary for it to perform the functions of the National Information Bureau.
Prime Minister of Ukraine D. SHMYHAL
Statute of the State Enterprise “Ukrainian National Center for Peacebuilding”