A new inter-factional group "Healthy and Sporting Ukraine" was set up in the Parliament, which was announced at the morning plenary meeting on Wednesday.
Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, read out the act on setting up an inter-factional group "Healthy and Sporting Ukraine", and announced that the goal of the group is support of a healthy lifestyle among the Ukrainian youth, promotion of tourism and grassroots sports in Ukraine, etc. He stressed that the group assumed the responsibility for the formation of legislative support in the sphere of youth policy, sports, tourism, promotion of healthy lifestyle, and restriction of consumption of alcoholic beverages and tobacco goods.
Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and Viktor Korzh, Deputy Head of the Committee on Public Health, were elected co-chairmen of the inter-factional group "Healthy and Sporting Ukraine." The group includes the representatives of five parliamentary factions. It is open for cooperation with both People´s Deputies and non-governmental organizations.