Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and honourable members of the committee. It's a great pleasure and honour for me to speak in front of you here, together with my colleagues. We all represent the same party. Even though we are in the opposition we are great supporters of the success of o

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the very important question and I know that this committee has launched, actually, sanctions based on the human rights violations. I am very grateful for this in particular, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. Yes, you are right. The non-military

Foreign Affairs committee  I have to be honest. Very often due to the lack of sufficient power of the Ukrainian parliament to do this parliamentary oversight of defence and security, very often we lack prompt and accurate information about our government commitments in the area of defence and security. Ver

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Definitely, such an agreement would be of great importance to Ukraine. We believe this is the way we should go. I believe also that it will be mutually beneficial for both countries, not only for Ukraine, and I'll explain why. Yes, you're right that we still exploit

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I would like Mr. Soboliev to respond.

Foreign Affairs committee  I have one thing to add. We also have an offer from the other party to suggest how the privatization approach should be changed. The biggest problem, and why it has not been privatized, is that first, we don't have proper management of state enterprises. Second, there are no tra

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Madame. I will leave the anti-corruption court for Iegor to respond to. With regard to reforms and everything that relates to the supposed fatigue, sorry, but it's Russian propaganda. When we hear, for example, about Ukraine's fatigue, I'm always asking the

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. As you were just mentioning, just yesterday there was the case of one more Crimean Tatar who has been arrested and sentenced in Kuban, actually. The situation is drastic. You understand that this is the consequence of what Russia has aimed to do. Of course, the human rights

Foreign Affairs committee  By the way, speaking of the OSCE, on the one hand, we are trying to encourage the OSCE to be there and to monitor human rights, but on the other hand, in the recent election monitoring report from the Russian elections done by the OSCE/ODIHR, they even don't mention the Russian o

Foreign Affairs committee  Ukraine has fantastic civil society that is maturing a lot now. I think you know that in the most critical period of time after the revolution of dignity, civil society substituted a lot of governmental institutions. They actually were doing the work that government or parliament

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. We have the same concerns, and we are ready to face them and to fix them. We believe it is our task as a parliament to do so. I understand the nature of the concerns. Unfortunately, Ukrainian parliaments still lack appropriate parliamentary oversight over d

Foreign Affairs committee  I said, “inventory and monitoring”, meaning how the foreign defence assistance is used in Ukraine. I believe if you have this, we will be able to ensure it. I know the U.S. Government, for example, is now undertaking an audit of what has so far been provided to Ukraine, and they

Foreign Affairs committee  You probably know pretty well that the policy towards Ukraine as well as towards Russia is not settled yet. To a big extent, it's on the level of assumptions based on the public speeches of the president, the vice-president, the secretary of state, and so on. Our task was to com

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank God we are not alone.

Foreign Affairs committee  There are two issues. First, we do have advisers. They do provide good advice, but they advise on the strategy for privatization. However, before going to a particular implementation of privatization, you have to have framework that ensures transparent privatization. Unfortunatel