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Parliament registers bill on special status of religious organizations of aggressor country

12.10.2016, 10:30
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on culture and spirituality, MP of People's Front Mykola Knyazhytskyy has proposed to Parliament to approve the draft law on the special status of religious organizations, whose senior centers are located in the state recognized as aggressor country by Ukraine’s Parliament.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on culture and spirituality, MP of People's Front Mykola Knyazhytskyy has proposed to Parliament to approve the draft law on the special status of religious organizations, whose senior centers are located in the state recognized as aggressor country by Ukraine’s Parliament.

As the Parliament’s website reports, draft resolution No. 4511/P was registered by Knyazhytskyy on October 10.

Draft law No. 4511, which Knyazhytskyy suggests as a basis, provides for granting special status to religious organizations, whose senior centers are located in the aggressor country. It is also proposed to envisage a special procedure for registration of the statutes of religious organizations and put into practice signing of contracts (agreements) between the government and the leadership of these religious organizations.

In addition, it is proposed to coordinate with a competent state authority the invitation of foreign citizens for outreach activities in Ukraine.

It also provides that in case of systematic violation of the law of Ukraine, establishment of the fact of collaboration with “representatives of militant and terrorist groups ... the competent state authority initiates termination of this religious organization in Ukraine.”

The objectives of the bill include timely identification of possible manifestations of external influence and interference “on the part of the aggressor country through the religious factor in the church-state and inter-confessional relations in Ukraine and in the course of social and political processes in the country.”

In January 2015, Ukraine’s Parliament recognized Russia as the aggressor country. The bill on the special status of religious organizations, whose senior centers are located in the territory of the aggressor country was registered in April this year. This was reported by Radio Liberty.