The Rada committee has worked out the text of the joint agreed statement, which has already been submitted for consideration by all factions and groups.
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy proposed to consider on Tuesday a decree on the controversial bill passed by the Sejm and the Senate of Poland introducing liability for denying the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists and promoting the so-called “Bandera ideology”.
"It will be very important for us to consider tomorrow the decree of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the law that was adopted in the Polish parliament," he said on Monday during the meeting of the Conciliation Council of the faction leaders and chairmen of the parliamentary committees, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
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As the speaker noted, "it is very important and significant that representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international experts also take part in the committee hearing."
"The committee has worked out the text of the joint agreed statement, which has already been submitted for consideration by all factions and groups, and today this decree will be registered," Parubiy said, requesting that the people's deputies review the draft before it is registered "so that tomorrow we could adopt the resolution in parliament, and so that it was a joint coordinated position and statement of the entire Ukrainian parliament," he added.
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In this regard, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expressed concern, saying that Poland was trying to portray Ukrainians as "criminal nationalists."
The Israeli Foreign Ministry, in turn, called Deputy Ambassador of Poland in Tel Aviv for explanations in connection with the amendments in the draft law on the Institute of National Remembrance. In particular, it bans any claims that the Polish people or Polish state were responsible or complicit in the Nazis' crimes, crimes against humanity or war crimes, thus, it bill criminalizes allegations of the Polish nation's complicity in the Holocaust.
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