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“There is not a grain of truth in the so-called ‘petition’. It is a lie from the beginning to the end. It is a pity that such a tool, which is expected to draw the President’s attention to truly important issues, has turned into a farce and become an instrument in Ukraine’s political and economic struggle. This indicates the weakness of online resources. However, I have got used to being discredited over the past two years and take it calmly.
The Politician also stated that a resolution to appoint Volodymyr Hroisman as Prime Minister and to dismiss Arsenii Yatseniuk was not lawful.
“Ukraine has the capacity for economic recovery and a growth in people’s real income which could be realised by the restoration of peace and the reintegration of Donbass with Ukraine. According to Government estimates, the country has lost 20% of its economic potential due to the war in the East. Any rational authority would consider this fact alone a sufficient argument to do everything possible to implement the Minsk agreements, the only peace formula to stop the war in Donbass which is recognized worldwide. The Opposition Bloc insists on the implementation of the agreement. Every Ukrainian knows that the country, from Lugansk to the Transcarpathian region, needs the Protocol. Peace will save lives, enable economic recovery and foster a growth in incomes for all our citizens. If the Government fail to restore peace, they should stand down so someone else can do the work”, declared Novynskyi.
Attempts by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to make the leadership of the National Reserve Saint Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv conclude an agreement with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate for the free use of the national architectural monument – the Refectory (Malaya Sofiya) - will jeopardize the existence of an integral site and will lead to its losing its status as a UNESCO world heritage site, thinks Vadym Novynskyi, an MP and member of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Spirituality.
This decision was put forward by the Ministry of Culture completely disregarding public opinion, representatives and experts from the professional community, as well as the representative office of UNESCO in Ukraine and other international organizations responsible for the protection of monuments and cultural heritage.
Yesterday's farce in Parliament is an attempt by the incumbent authorities to evade responsibility for the most serious crisis since the country got its independence 25 years ago.
Our political party did not have, and does not have, the slightest desire to participate in this sham!
We are not interested in this infighting and the jostling of the coalition factions, including the Narodnyi Front, the Batkivshchyna Party, the Samopomich Bloc and Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc. These parties are responsible for the on-going policy of genocide against the Ukrainian people, for the war in the East of the country, for the collapse of Ukrainian industry and an unprecedented impoverishment of the Ukrainians.
Novynskyi said, “Thanks to our 26 votes (out of 243 votes) there was a no-confidence motion against the government. This would not have happened, if it had not be for the Opposition Block. Now the ruling coalition has to vote for the resignation of the government that had elected it. That is their political responsibility”.
He is convinced that Yatsenyuk’s resignation or his replacement by Mikhail Saakashvili (considered one of the most likely candidates for the post of Prime Minister) would change nothing.