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Representatives of civil society, parliamentarians of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania have agreed in Warsaw to establish an Interparliamentary Forum "The Transformation of Ukraine." Lawmakers from Germany and Canada will also join. The Forum is to start its work officially from June after a joint meeting of parliamentarians from those countries and the adoption of a respective statement.
This was announced following a visit of delegates of the National Forum "Transformation of Ukraine," including member of the supervisory board, President of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Anatoliy Kinakh, Forum coordinator Mykhailo Khariy, as well as representatives of the same parliamentary groups, namely MP Leonid Kozachenko, MP Yuriy Derevyanko, MP Vadym Ivchenko to the capital of Poland.
The Interparliamentary Forum, which is to be created, will be in charge of the strategy for rebuilding a law-governed Ukraine with an attractive economy as part of the European family. It will help to consolidate Ukrainian society for this objective and to engage foreign partners in the process, thus expanding the "circle of friends" of Ukraine.
Among high-ranking officials who support this process abroad are former Prime Minister of Lithuania, now a member of the Seimas, and one of the authors of the so-called "Marshall Plan for Ukraine," Andrius Kubilius, Secretary of State of Poland's Ministry of Economic Development, member of the supervisory board of the Forum "The Transformation of Ukraine" Jerzy Kwieciński, as well as representatives of the parliaments and governments of those countries. They will help initiate the creation of groups of support for the transformation of Ukraine in the legislative bodies of Germany and Canada.
"In addition, the interparliamentary platform's tasks will include the adaptation of Ukrainian laws to EU standards and regulations, including through the launch of an appropriate system in the Verkhovna Rada. This issue is important for the national economy, improvement in its competitiveness," Anatoliy Kinakh has said.
The Interparliamentary Forum welcomes other MPs from friendly countries and is set to cooperate with their governments and civil society, NGOs and associations, financial and security institutions. Its activities are aimed at consolidating Ukrainian society to end the systemic crisis in a civilized, constitutional way.