Committee of Supreme Council Does Not Support Privatization of Pochaiv Monastery

A special committee of the Supreme Council did not support the draft resolution to exclude the Pochaiv Monastery from the list of objects which are not subject to privatization. So reported a deputy of the Ternopil Regional Council, Stepan Barna to UNIAN.

“I received a call from a deputy, Yaroslav Kendzior who is a member of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality of the Supreme Council of Ukraine. According to him, the special committee prohibited the exclusion of the Pochaiv Monastery from the list of objects which are not subject to privatization. Even the Communists were against it,” said Stepan Barna.

The bill regarding the exclusion of the monastery from the mentioned list was submitted by deputies Dmytro Shentsev (Party of Regions) and Yurii But (a member of the pro-regime deputy group “Reforms for the future”).

On 16 September, a draft address to the President, Parliament and government as to unacceptability of consideration of the bill on exclusion of the Pochaiv Monastery from the list of objects which are not subject to privatization was submitted to the consideration of the plenary session of Ternopil Regional Council.

However, the decision was not passed.

The faction of the All-Ukrainian Association Svoboda, which initiated the address, refused to participate in further activity of the session and left the hall expressing its protest. The session was then closed.