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Deputies Again Fail to Support Document on Strategy of Humanitarian Policy of Ukraine

25.05.2011, 10:57
The Supreme Council of Ukraine for the second time failed to reach an agreement as to the Recommendations of the parliamentary hearing “Strategy of humanitarian policy of modern Ukraine” held on October 6, 2010, reports the Institute for Religious Freedom.

The Supreme Council of Ukraine for the second time failed to reach an agreement as to the Recommendations of the parliamentary hearing “Strategy of humanitarian policy of modern Ukraine” held on October 6, 2010, reports the Institute for Religious Freedom. In addition to the questions of education, science, language, mass media and health protection, the Draft Recommendations contained an analysis of the religious situation in Ukraine and the role of religious communities in the life of the society.

Only 106 of the necessary 226 deputies supported the draft resolution. The Party of Regions, Communists and People’s Party did not support the document during the voting on May 12.

The document stressed the great importance of interdenominational associations.

“During the years of independence, the religious life has become richer due to such a new phenomenon for us as interdenominational associations, which is an indicator of the extension of the cooperation between subjects of religious life, its normalization, reduction of the internal tension in the religious environment and its conflict-bringing influence on other social processes,” read the recommendations.   

The participants of the parliamentary hearing also recommended to the Cabinet of Ministers to develop draft laws on the Concept of Church-State Relations in Ukraine, envisage an increase of responsibility of physical and legal entities, political parties, mass media for manifestations of xenophobia, stirring of interethnic, interdenominational hatred, encroachment on monuments of culture of all the national (ethnic), confessional communities and minorities of Ukraine.