Acting head of Verkhovna Rada Secretariat Volodymyr Slyshynskyi meets with GIZ and WFD representatives on Wednesday

Press Service
30 September 2015, 17:25

On Wednesday, September 30, Acting Head of the Verkhovna Rada Secretariat Volodymyr Slyshynskyi had a meeting with representatives of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ; Germany) and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD).

Welcoming the guests, Slyshynskyi noted that joint groundwork would be useful in the process of reformation of both the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament and lawmaking procedures.

The participants of the meeting discussed the ways of cooperation and preparation for the signature of the joint memo on cooperation between the Verkhovna Rada and the WFD.

"Your experience and knowledge are important for us," Slyshynskyi said having expressed a desire to join the work of several projects on reformation of the Ukrainian Parliament.

In turn, members of the delegation noted that the cooperation with the Ukrainian Parliament is important for GIZ and WFD. According to the guests, the work of the Verkhovna Rada, its reformation, have to go along with the whole architecture of reforms in Ukraine.