Yushchenko, Davis Discuss Ukraine’s Constitutional Reforming

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis met on Wednesday to discuss Ukraine’s constitutional reform, the press service of the Ukrainian president told Itar-Tass.

Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis
Terry Davis is on a visit in Ukraine.

Yushchenko informed the Secretary General of the Council of Europe about the activity of the National Constitutional Council and the drafting of a new Ukrainian constitution.

The president confirmed that the constitutional reform is a keystone of political stabilisation in Ukraine.

“All political forces understand that the constitutional reform is direct response to the stabilisation of the political situation in the country,” Yushchenko said.

He also called on the Council of Europe to recognize the Holodomor (famine) of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.

The president thinks that it is necessary to work out a European educational program that will tell the historical truth about that tragedy, Yushchenko said.

Davis accepted an invitation to attend an international forum devoted to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine that will be held in Kiev this November.

The parties discussed prospects for the adoption by the Council of Europe’s Cabinet of Ministers the cooperation plant between the organisation and Ukraine for 2008-2011.

Source: ITAR-TASS