Mykola Tomenko: The Government shall measure the Extent of its Support of War Veterans on behalf of the Ukrainian State

11 February 2011, 15:31

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Mykola Tomenko visited a hospital for soldiers-internationalists"Lisova Poliana"

 

Visiting the Ukrainian hospital for the soldiers-internationalists "Lisova Poliana", Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, announced that as a participant of military actions in Afghanistan, he had directed an appeal to Supreme Commander-in-Chief - President of Ukraine with a request to protect all the social guarantees envisaged by the Law of Ukraine "On the Status of War Veterans, and Guarantees of their Social Security."

 

According to M. Tomenko, he received a number of appeals from Afghan war veterans who are afraid lest social guarantees should be cut down. First of all, it was caused by the submission of governmental bill on amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On the Status of War Veterans, and Guarantees of their Social Security."

 

The Cabinet of Ministers registered the bill "On State Guarantees of Execution of Judgment" (Reg. No.4562) that amends certain Laws of Ukraine concerning rates and order of social guarantees, and privileges for several social groups, namely, the participants of the military actions. Under the bill, the privileges envisaged by the Law are granted "under the order established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine."

 

The Deputy Chairman of the Parliament is convinced that this approach arouses concern regarding implementation of the guarantees and privileges for the war veterans and other categories of population.

 

Meeting the fellow soldiers, Mykola Tomenko declared that he understood the critics against those military officers who simply ‘visited´, in passing, the critical spots around the world but, in fact, enjoy the same social privileges as the Afghan war veterans.

 

He deems necessary to define the extent to which the state is ready to support the war veterans. "Otherwise, a famous expression of Soviet times popular after the Afghan war "Acting Government has not told us where to get on a fight, so now it can tell us where ‘to get off´", may be topical," M. Tomenko admitted.