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The Ireland Parliament Committee on international relations excluded from appeal to the country's government the requirement to introduce visa and financial sanctions against Russian officials and security forces involved in the death of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky. It is reported by The Irish Times. The final version of the document contains only a request to the government to express concern to Moscow by the death of a lawyer.

The correction to the text of the appeal, proposed by the deputy from the ruling Party of the Fine Gal, the committee adopted the Committee unanimously. The author of the document, the Senator from the Opposition Party "Fianna File" Jim Walsh, said that he was disappointed with the decision of the committee. “However, politics is the art of compromise,” he added.

Meanwhile, the head of the committee, a deputy from the ruling party Pat Brin, rejected the accusations that parliamentarians succumbed to blackmail. “We accepted the appeal in accordance with our obligations to protect human rights,” he emphasized.

On the readiness of parliamentarians to soften the text of the document The Financial Times wrote on April 25. Then a letter from Russia's ambassador in Ireland Maxim Peshkov to deputy Brin, dated March 11, got into the press. The diplomat threatened to prohibit the adoption of Russian children with citizens of Ireland, if the Law of Magnitsky will be adopted in the EU, where this country is now presiding. At the same time, back in January, Peshkov assured that the "anti -magnetic law" would not affect the Irish adoptive parents.