It is proposed that the functions of the Committee be transferred to the newly established Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy.
It is proposed that the functions of the Committee be transferred to the newly established Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy.
And along with language policy, legislation in the field of culture, the Committee, as indicated in the proposals, will deal with foreign tourism, resorts, family and marriage relations, demographic policy, great athletics achievements, the use of funds received from lotteries and betting for the development of sports, and with many other areas.
These are important spheres.
But it is obvious that the combination of such areas as culture, religion, spiritual heritage, the media market, tourism, sports indicates that they don't understand the functions of the Parliament and the best practices that have been implemented over the past 5 years," - he said.
Kniazhytskyi notes that the activities of the committees cannot be considered regardless of our realia.
“In Ukraine, which strives to be a part of the EU, defends itself in the war against Russia, changes post-colonial society, culture and spiritual heritage are the main spheres of state policy, and the enemies of Ukraine are constantly trying to downsize the role of these spheres,” - says the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Culture and Spirituality.
“Tourism is an important sector of the economy, which obviously has to be developed.
Namely the sector of the economy!
Sport is a part of the educational sphere, it is related to health care and the system of defence capacity.
And even if representatives of the elected authorities are interested in manual management of quotas, licenses, media - this is not a reason to destroy the Committee on Culture and Spirituality, the Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy.
The very implementation of the freedom of speech protection is the law on audiovisual services in accordance with the recommendations of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament.
The creation of a separate Committee of Freedom of Speech but without its department on information policy is a fake and anti-European grandstanding", - he explains.
“The same story is with the uniting in one committee the protection of human rights and national minorities and achieving peace in the occupied territories.
Peace in the occupied territories has been destroyed not by national minorities, but by Putin!
Therefore, it should be provided by the Committee on Defence, other committees that are associated with the reintegration.
The rights of displaced persons are only an important but small component of reintegration,” emphasized Kniazhytskyi.
“I am convinced that we cannot allow the levelling of the role of committees on culture and spirituality, freedom of speech, information policy and human rights, national minorities and interethnic relations.
I ask for the support of responsible citizens and conscious politicians”, - Mykola Kniazhytskyi addresses.