A.Parubii: The Verkhovna Rada is intended to reform the country
27 January 2015, 17:58
Andrii Parubii informed that the Verkhovna Rada today took the decision to recognize the Russian Federation the aggressor state; considered the bill on amendments to several legislative bills of Ukraine regarding recognizing organizations as terrorist; and addressed partner countries to increase sanctions against Russia and provide Ukraine with military assistance.
“At present these issues are gaining urgent topicality,” he stressed, adding that actions of the aggressor state “pose a challenge to the European safety system established after the World War Two, and are a real threat not only to Ukraine but other countries as well.”
First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stressed that “this is not a civil war taking place in Ukraine, as the Russian propaganda wants to portray it, but an open aggression on the part of Russia, and the world should know the truth about it.”
In this context, he stressed the important role deputy corps plays in informing the international community about real developments taking place in the eastern Ukraine.
“Today we have to simultaneously carry out reforms inside the country and conduct a war waged against our country,” stressed A.Parubii. “At the same time, the Parliament is pro-reform inclined in regard to consideration of several bills on country’s restoration and development,” he added. According to him, the Verkhovna Rada made a lot of important steps in the direction to implementation of constitutional and judicial reforms and establishment of the Anticorruption Bureau.
It went about the importance of exchange of experience in developing
parliamentarism. In particular, members of the delegation informed that a
training center on the basis of Seimas of the Lithuanian republic and under the
patronage of the International Republican Institute has began its work, and MPs
of Georgia and Moldova
have already gained experience in developing parliamentarism in this center.
They suggested Ukrainian colleagues join the programme. In this context, A.Parubii stressed that this issue is extremely important in view of the fact that the Verkhovna Rada “needs a new European experience since there are a lot of new deputies in the renewed Parliament.”
It also went about the importance of activating work of the trilateral Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, as well as Euro-integrational and Euro-Atlantic cooperation.
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