Parliament elects committee chairs (07/19/98)

Parliament elects committee chairs

Embassy of Ukraine

WASHINGTON - On July 10, the Verkhovna Rada approved a resolution electing the following national deputies as heads of its permanent committees:

Vasyl Sirenko (Communist Party) - Committee on Legal Reform; Oleksander Kushnir (Communist Party) - Committee on State-Building, Local Self-Governance, and Local Councils; Yevhen Marchuk (Social Democratic Party - United) - Committee on Social Policy and Labor; Serhii Shevchuk (National Democratic Party) - Committee on Health, Mothers and Children; Ivan Kyrylenko (Hromada) - Committee on Youth, Physical Culture and Sports; Volodymyr Semynozhenko (National Democratic Party) - Committee on Science and Education; Les Taniuk (Rukh) - Committee on Culture and Spirituality; Stanislav Hurenko (Communist Party) - Committee on Economic Policy, Economy Management, Property and Investment; Yulia Tymoshenko (Hromada) - Committee on the Budget; Valerii Alioshyn (Rukh) - Committee on Finance and Banking Activities; Anatolii Kinakh (National Democratic Party) - Committee on Industrial Policy; Mykhailo Kovalko (National Democratic Party) - Committee on Energy, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety; Yurii Kruk (National Democratic Party) - Committee on Construction, Transportation and Telecommunications; Oleksander Moroz (Socialist Party - Peasants' Party faction) - Committee on Agriculture Policy and Land Relations; Borys Oliinyk (Communist Party) - Committee on Foreign Affairs and Relations with the CIS; Yurii Samoilenko (Green Party) - Committee on Environmental Policy, Natural Resources and Elimination of the Consequences of Chornobyl; Yurii Karmazyn (Hromada) - Committee on Legal Basis for Law-Enforcement Activities and the Fight Against Organized Crime and Corruption; Heorhii Kriuchkov (Communist Party) - Committee on National Security and Defense; Viktor Omelych (Hromada) - Committee on Rules, Deputies' Ethics and Organization of the Verkhovna Rada; Ivan Chyzh (Socialist Party - Peasants' Party faction) - Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information; Hennadii Udovenko (Rukh) - Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations; Victor Lutsenko (Communist Party) - Committee on Pensioners, Veterans and Disabled Persons.