Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, made the foregoing statement, speaking at the Regional Parliamentary Seminar "Making Child Rights a Reality for the Most Vulnerable Children" in Yerevan.
Mykola Tomenko stated that Ukrainian laws on child's rights protection and motherhood and childhood have been considerably enhanced, which was highly appreciated by the international organizations in charge of child's rights. "However, there is a big problem of the so-called non-functional laws", the Deputy Chairman of the Parliament admitted.
M. Tomenko informed that since the Ukrainian authorities are holding administrative reforms, "it is not clear who and in what way will be authorized to solve the issues of motherhood and childhood and child's rights protection".
Moreover, Deputy Chairman believes that most problems are connected with the malfunction of already adopted laws. "Hence, the Ukrainian Parliament shall pay special attention to the parliamentary supervision over the protection of legal rights by the local authorities and appropriate funding of these measures rather than to adoption of new legal documents in the sphere", the politician is convinced. M. Tomenko also informed that in autumn, the Parliament will hold the parliamentary hearings on the institute of family to gear governmental response to these questions.
"Making Child Rights a Reality for the Most Vulnerable Children" is a regional parliamentary seminar hosted by the National Assembly of Armenia and organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF) and is held in Yerevan, Armenia, on 14-16 June 2011. The Ukrainian delegates in regional parliamentary seminar are People's Deputies of Ukraine Olena Bondarenko, Evhen Suslov and Kateryna Lukianova. The delegation is headed by Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.