During the speech, Minister of Culture Yevhen Nyshchuk focused attention on several key moments of a law-making process. Particularly, on the issue of elaboration of a short term anti-crisis strategy of the ministry; submission of bills on prohibition of construction in buffer zones; and on ratification of the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the notion of military necessity, etc.
In the course of discussion, Committee members stressed the necessity of
quickest possible reaction to violation of human rights to freedom of worldview
and freedom
of conscience in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The people’s deputies drew attention of representatives of the executive power to the topicality of proper nation-wide honoring of the Great Kobzar and on the consolidating factor of national jubilee events.
Committee Chair Viacheslav Kyrylenko stressed topicality of settling the
issue of economic promotion and tax support to the cultural sector,
particularly, preserving privileged conditions for Ukrainian book publishers. Summing up the discussion, V.Kyrylenko noted that the Committee is ready to support all legislative initiatives of the government aimed at reforming cultural sphere.