26 August 2011, 09:37
Statehood of Ukraine is under no threat. Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn made this statement in the program "Vid Pershoii Osoby" (Era Radio).
Characterizing state processes for the past twenty years, the Head of the Parliament stressed, "Ukraine has finally asserted itself as a state." "It is the main conclusion of these years. Now we have to answer the eternal question: what will Ukraine look like a state? What humanitarian, economic, and foreign political policies will it have?" he stated.
V.Lytvyn reminded of the principle ‘state, society, nation, individual´ applied at the state-building stage. "However, the state having been formed, this system should be changed, the principle being reversed individual, nation, society, state. It is a key definition," the Head of the Parliament emphasized. The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine calls for supporting further diplomatic development of Ukraine, and confronting global challenges.
Asked about interpretation of the contemporary history of Ukraine, V.Lytvyn responded, "Ukraine and its historical development should be considered in the light of general civilization processes." "Re-interpreting history, we should create not merely history of Ukraine on the basis of fundamental achievements we made, but history of Ukrainian nation against the background of global and European processes," he stated. "We developed as a nation within the all-European process." "We are being forced to copy the standards, models and projects of global development. However, we adopt these projects after they had been implemented and abandoned in the European countries. We should not lag behind history," V.Lytvyn stated.
"Statehood of Ukraine is under no threat. There is a problem of preserving democratic approaches under the influence of economic circumstances, and the necessity of passing rigorous resolutions to prevent the democratic rollback," the Head of the Parliament summed up, noting that both public and the authorities realize irreversibility of democratic freedoms and transformations.