“Closer inter-parliamentary ties along with entire process of a modern parliamentarism evolving pave new ways towards a wider development of not only democracy but also an interstate cooperation,” -- A.Parubiy, the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament
In the course of his working visit to Poland, the Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy took part in a Przemysl conference on inter-parliamentary cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe.
In his conference speech, A.Parubiy expressed his sincere gratitude to the Sejm Marshal Marek Kuchcinski for the organization of the conference and his constructive endeavours aimed at streamlining of the regional inter-parliamentary collaboration. “His political captaincy here is obvious,” he stressed.
A considerable part of the speech was also dedicated to a long, thousand-year-old, history of the Ukrainian law and the Ukrainian all-out defensive efforts protecting Europe and the whole civilized world against the Golden Horde of the Mongols then and the Russian aggression now, which thereby gave them room to steadily and peacefully develop in democracy.
Much was also said of the Ukrainian Parliament which used to play a key role at every stage of the modern Ukrainian nationhood, including the recent Euromaidan and the preceding Orange Revolution.
It was underlined the process of formation of the nation has never stopped in Ukraine. The old-fashioned and obsolete ideas of the life-long mossy communists were trying hard to drive the whole country back under the ever-rotting influence of the Russian Federation. In the Chairman’s opinion, the Orange Revolution was chiefly caused by that conceptual opposing of the people of Ukraine to that backward ‘penning up the cattle’ under the North bast shoe.
As in 1991 and 2004, the turbulence of 2013 started up once the people at large apprehended that the political top brass of the country had made their utmost to get the nation’s European aspirations to come to nothing, a blip.
The Revolution of Dignity then led to a headlong flight of the then state leaders in nearly pleno. “That very moment the state’s political honchos off the country, Russia started its intervention,” reminded the Chairman. “Few people know the armed aggression unfolded on February 20, the day we were standing at the Maidan as yet. Not only external was the aggression since the Russian Federation was desperately willing to show Ukraine did not have its lawful authority to assume power”.
In those days, the Parliament of Ukraine took the full power of political responsibility, and became the mainstay for organizing a strong resistance to the aggression.
The Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine drew also attention of those in attendance to levels of confidence to the parliaments. “Like in Poland, many are too willing in Ukraine to see the Parliament in the capacity of just a voting gadget. It is obvious, our parliaments are still far from having uppermost confidence from the societies as they remain homes for unstoppable discussions and debates,” noted he, having added that a parliament is an open floor to cope with the biggest differences and conflicts. It is his strong belief there is no revolution until a parliament works, capable of settling the keenest melees, disputes and wrangles.
“A parliament’s role is still widely underrated. Its ability to move off from a dead point, notably in an interstate dialogue, is today becoming more and more topical and relevant,” he stressed.
A.Parubiy has once again highlighted the Sejm Marshal’s leading hand in the ongoing inter-parliamentary dialogue in the region. “Closer inter-parliamentary ties along with entire process of a modern parliamentarism evolving pave new ways towards a wider development of not only democracy but also an interstate cooperation,” pointed out the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament.