President Viktor Yanukovych held a meeting of National Security and
Defense Council of Ukraine.
"Today we discuss issues of strategic importance: the
draft Law on foundations of domestic and foreign policy. This document
should identify key principles and priorities of public policy for a
long term.
We must admit that all these years, the issue was
not resolved at the legislative level.
I think the legislative
initiative on foundations of external and domestic policy is
system-formative and regulates policy of the state regardless of the
internal political situation. It is very important.
We
consider this draft at a NSDC meeting because of the fact that further
delay in resolution of this issue poses a threat to national security
and national interests of Ukraine," President Yanukovych
said opening the meeting.
According to him, the adoption of this law
will finally allow the authorities bringing order to scattered and inconsistent
legislation.
The Law on foundations of foreign and domestic
policy, he thinks, is the first and vital step towards systemic reforms in
all areas of our life.
The proposed bill defines foundations
of domestic policy. It provides clear formulation of the principles, on
which further reforming of political and social institutions of the
state will be based.
Among the priority goals of domestic
policy is achieving social consensus, broad internal dialogue and
social-political stability.
The foundations of internal policy
impose certain obligations on public authorities, which is very
important, the president claims.
"In the draft we clearly identify the highest
priority of strategic European integration course of Ukraine. This is
the primary vector of our development, which determines the content of
social transformation and basic orientation of our foreign and domestic
policy," he said.
Yanukovych also mentioned that the next position in the foreign policy part is
strategic partnership with Russia. Strategic relations with
the U.S. have been and remain important direction of the country's foreign policy.
It is also fundamentally important to deepen the development
of relations with countries known as developing new global centers of
growth.
"In the defense and security sector we must provide
adequate defense capability and the possibility of cooperation in this
field with European and Atlantic structures.
I suggest, dear
colleagues, that we discuss this very important bill, and after our
discussion and consideration of suggestions the draft bill will be
submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as a legislative initiative
of the President of Ukraine and will be defined as urgent for it to be
considered by the Parliament extraordinarily.
So I invite you
to dialogue and would like you to express your views,” he said in his speech.
Having
examined the draft Law "On Foundations of Domestic and Foreign Policy"
the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine unanimously decided
to:
- support the draft law "On Foundations of Domestic and Foreign Policy"
- recommend the President of Ukraine to submit the draft Law to the Parliament as urgent
- instruct Chief of Presidential Administration Staff Serhiy Lyovochkin and Minister of Justice Oleksandr Lavrynovych to advocate this bill in the Parliament of Ukraine
- assign Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov to present the draft Law "On Foundations of Domestic and Foreign Policy" in the Verkhovna Rada on behalf of the President of Ukraine.
After the meeting, President Yanukovych has immediately signed the draft bill into President’s Legislative Initiative and submitted it to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
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