Opening the
meeting, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament / Co-Chair of the Equal
Opportunities interfaction association, Olena Kondratiuk, noted: "In
February 2016, the Ukrainian Government approved the National Action Plan to
implement the Resolution of the UN Security Council 1325 Women, Peace, Security
until 2020. The adoption of the Women, Peace, Security National Action Plan
aims to ensure stable peace and settlement of conflicts, assist in
intensification of women's involvement in peacekeeping processes, protect women
and girls-victims of the conflict."
According to
Kondratiuk, one of the most important tasks of the Forum is to discuss the
issue of real coordination of parliamentary, governmental and non-government
institutions as to the implementation of the National Action Plan.
Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Sweden, Martin Hagstrom,
thanked for the honor to take part in the Forum and drew attention of the
attendees to the fact that the Government of Sweden is one of the first
feminist governments in the world. He also said that the Embassy should act in
a way of gender equality and assured all the Forum participants of Sweden's
assistance in and support for the implementation of the National Action Plan.
The participants
in the Forum also noted that the Action Plan is interrelated with other program
documents namely the State Program on Equal Rights and Opportunities of Women
and Men, National Strategy and Human Rights Action Plan, etc.
At the end of the discussion,
the parties will provide a number of recommendations: elaboration of mechanisms
of effective coordination in the implementation of the Action Plan 1325 by the
concerned parties; effective parliamentary control over and improvement of
legislative mechanisms of implementation of the Action Plan; as well as
mechanisms of providing effective feedback for participation of the civil
society in the implementation of the Action Plan.
