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<h1 class="gmail-news-caption">Ukraine's Parliament can adopt law on language this autumn</h1>
<div class="gmail-news-caption-description">The speaker provided his vision of the tasks for the ninth session of the Verkhovna Rada</div> <div class="gmail-control-news-panel">
<span class="gmail-time">17:53, 3 September 2018</span>
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<p><a href="https://112.international/politics/poroshenko-to-submit-bill-on-constitutional-euro-atlantic-integration-course-31479.html" target="_blank">The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine</a>
has to adopt the defense draft laws, Electoral Code and law on language
this autumn. Andry Paruby, the speaker of the parliament claimed this
as <a href="http://112.ua/" target="_blank">112 Ukraine reported</a>.</p>
<p>"The security issue remains to be the most important for us. I want to remind that at the end of the previous session we <a href="https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/verkhovna-rada-adopts-law-on-national-security-of-ukraine-29588.html" target="_blank">adopted the law on the national security</a>
that provides the implementation and adoption of the number of the next
laws. The law on the SBU, law on the intelligence bodies, the law on
the state defensive order are among them and I remind you that it is our
commitment, the law on the detached parliamentarian committee that will
provide the parliamentarian control over the security sector and
intelligence bodies," Paruby noted.</p>
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<p>He emphasized the importance of the information security issue.</p>
<p>"I talked to Head of Committee Viktoria Syumar to prepare the offers
on the information security because if we cannot protect our internal
informational space that it is hard to talk about the protection from
the external aggression. Unfortunately, I can confirm that the internal
informational space was attacked, also by people who openly work for the
country-aggressor," he said.</p>
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<p>Paruby expressed the hope that the draft budget for 2019 will be
registered in time (September 15) and the MPs will make it discuss the
budget before its adoption.</p>
<p>"The important block is the elective one. We begin the election year
and it will be important this autumn to finish the issue of the forming
of the Central Election Commission. I remind about the Electoral Code as
the biggest draft law on the number of the amendments. I talked to the
head of the task groups Chernenko and I urged him to maximally speed up
the consideration of the amendments so we will be able to consider the
Electoral Code understanding its volume and it can take two plenary
weeks, but we should come and <a href="https://112.international/politics/ukrainian-parliament-considers-two-models-of-electoral-code-mp-31634.html" target="_blank">consider the Electoral Code</a> this autumn," parliament's speaker noted.</p>
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<p>Moreover, he expressed the belief that the parliament should decide on the language issue.</p>
<p>"Also, I am sure that this autumn, at this session, we should
consider the law on language. As the Constitutional Court canceled the
so-called law of Kolesnichenko-Kivalov (The law on the principles of the
state language policy), the legislative vacuum occurred and we should
fill it. There are five registered draft laws; the majority of them are
already considered by the committee and I urged the parties last spring
to hold the discussion so we will be able to follow one negotiated draft
law," Paruby said.</p>
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<p>According to him, in autumn the Verkhovna Rada will consider the
draft laws necessary for the eurointegration and implementation of the
Association Agreement with the EU.</p>
<p>"And, of course, there are the amendments to the Constitution. I
remind that the Constitutional Court made a decision on two draft law on
the inviolability and we should consider these two bills and made a
decision on them. I remind that the decision should be made by 226
voices this session and by 330 during the next one, but we should
consider this issue in autumn," the speaker concluded.</p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>