23 June 2017, 20:15
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Triggered by the committee’s head Hanna Hopko and co-organized by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) there was held a roundtable “Foreign Affairs: Ukraine’s Strategies” at the committee’s premises.
Energy diplomacy must be one of the levers in building Ukraine’s foreign policy. It is very important today to stop the Nord Stream-2 and convince European countries to support this action as the gas line may only be a short-term advantage, but if one could think long and hard it is visibly seen that the Gazprom’s monopoly presents an explicit threat to Europe. To spur up the process two proper laws are expected to be adopted soon – the law on foreign policies and the law on energy security.
We need to hereby
reinforce the state machinery and make Ukraine a powerful democratic country.
The above laws were much talked over and the experts in attendance gave their views over Ukraine’s international goals and tasks. It was then recapped that the Ukrainian state’s foreign policy ought to be far more stringent.