The regional parliamentary seminar "Making Child Rights a Reality for the Most Vulnerable Children" started in Yerevan today. On this occasion, Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, stated, "Ukrainian Parliament has recently made significant steps towards harmonizing the laws on child rights and issues of motherhood and childhood with the international standards." However, he believes that implementation of the laws on socio-economic rights is inefficient. "There seems to be a yawning gap between the laws on child rights and their implementation," he admitted. Therefore, M.Tomenko stressed, "Emphasis should be placed on the proper implementation of applicable laws."
Regional parliamentary seminar "Making Child Rights a Reality for the Most Vulnerable Children" hosted by the National Assembly of Armenia and organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF) is being held in Yerevan, Armenia, on 14-16 June 2011. Ukrainian party is represented by People´s Deputies Olena Bondarenko, Yevhen Suslov and Kateryna Lukianova. Ukrainian delegation is headed by M.Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.