Gabriel hopes Rada will not consider bill restricting freedom of anti-corruption agencies
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel believes that the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, will not return to the consideration of a draft law that could limit the independence of anti-corruption agencies in Ukraine.
"The work of independent anti-corruption institutions is often inconvenient and causes some conflicts, but we believe that this work is very important and it's very good that they revoked a draft law that could limit the activities of anti-corruption institutions. We believe that this will be so, that the consideration of this law will not resume," Gabriel said at a joint press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kyiv on Wednesday, January 3.
The German foreign minister noted the importance of increasing the trust of international investors in the situation in Ukraine.
"This trust arises due to the internal living conditions in Ukraine, above all a long and constant fight against corruption," Gabriel said.
As reported, on December 6, 2017, the leaders of the factions of the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko (BPP) and the People's Front, Artur Herasymov and Maksym Burbak, submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada proposing that parliament be empowered to express a vote of no confidence and, as a result, dismiss the leaders of a number of newly created anti-corruption agencies.
"The Verkhovna Rada can express a vote of no confidence in the director of the State Bureau of Investigations, the deputy prosecutor general and head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, a member of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, which entails resignation," according to the text of the bill.
According to the leaders of the factions, the issue of expressing a vote of no confidence in the leaders of the above bodies can be submitted for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada from the president, the Cabinet of Ministers and at the suggestion of at least a third of MPs from the constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada.
This bill was criticized by a number of people's deputies, public organizations and some diplomatic missions.
