#EthicalRada
On February 3, the press conference “Presentation of Materials Developed for the Parliamentary Code of Conduct” was held and was attended by Svitlana Matviienko, Chairwoman of Board of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives, Igor Kogut, Director of USAID “RADA” Program, Kateryna Ryabiko, Project Coordinator of OSCE / ODIHR Project “Strengthening Dialogue among Civil Society and with Key Governmental Stakeholders in Ukraine in Human Dimension”, Ostap Yednak, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, and Serhiy Leshchenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine.
At the press conference, the first developments were presented based on operation of the dialog platform, which was established to discuss ethical dilemmas and ensure an inclusive process of developing the Parliamentary Code of Conduct, the “owners” of which are Members of the Parliament themselves. During the press conference, the MPs also presented a declaration of intent on development of the Parliamentary Code of Conduct.
Svitlana Matviienko noticed:
Igor Kogut emphasized that the process of dialogs on the parliamentary ethics should focus on consideration of ethical dilemmas, which will result in common, clear, and acceptable to all parliamentary standards of professional ethics. MPs themselves should agree on parliamentary ethics principles, within which they will be able to fulfill their mandate and be accountable to voters.
Kateryna Riabiko said:
MP Ostap Yednak, who participated in all workshops in the framework of the project, noted that the key to this process is the dialog:
When presenting the declaration of intent on development of the Parliamentary Code of Conduct, MP Serhiy Leshchenko said:
Serhiy also urged MPs to join the initiative and sign the declaration of intent to participate in the process of adopting the Parliamentary Code of Conduct.
The activity takes place in the framework of the Agency for Legislative Initiative Project “Promoting Democratic Political Culture in Verkhovna Rada through Political Dialog and Ethical Standards”, which is being implemented with support from the MATRA Program (Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) and in partnership with the ODIHR OSCE Project “Strengthening Dialogue among Civil Society and with Key Governmental Stakeholders in Ukraine in Human Dimension”, the Dutch Institute for Multiparty Democracy, and with the assistance of the USAID Program “RADA: Accountability, Responsibility, Democratic Parliamentary Representation”.
