MOSCOW, December 5 - RAPSI. Moscow welcomes the U.S. senators' attempts to bring U.S. legislation in correspondence with international law, but not all flaws have been removed, Konstantin Dolgov, Russian Foreign Ministry's Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

In late November, the U.S. Congress approved an amendment which prohibits the U.S. administration from indefinitely depriving U.S. citizens and individuals holding a U.S. residence permit of liberty without the courts' sanction and without bringing charges against them.

Dolgov said that the main problem with the adopted document is that it only covers U.S. citizens and people who hold a U.S. residence permit.

However, the law of 2001 on allowing the military detention of terrorism suspects regardless of their citizenship and place where they were detained is still in effect.

Therefore Dolgov believes that the adopted amendment is purely declarative, as the Pentagon still reserves the right to arrest anybody anywhere, in violation of basic democratic principles of personal immunity and justice, and indefinitely keep prisoners in a legal vacuum.

Therefore Russia hopes that U.S. lawmakers will return to the issue and will bring U.S. legislation truly into correspondence with international law, first of all with those provisions which deal with citizens of other states, Dolgov said.