This year’s presidential address to parliament will focus on
ways to improve and develop humanitarian, language and media policies, and to
build closer ties with Ukrainian living abroad, Mykola Zhulynsky, chairman of
the National Culture Council and one of the co-authors of humanitarian chapters
of the address, told a news conference on Wednesday, president's press office reported.
“Since we need to find opportunities to make a breakthrough, it
is important to persuade the President that education, science, culture and
intellect should become the country’s strategic goals,” he said, adding that
domestic and foreign investments should be used to develop our educational and
intellectual potential, which will help boost the local economy.
Zhulynsky said the President saw national values as a
foundation to formulate humanitarian policies in Ukraine.
“Thus we paid much attention to ways to unite our society while
preparing the address,” he said.
He added that all branches of Ukraine’s government should be
involved in developing the humanitarian sphere in the country.
