Rada unites Multimedia Platform and Ukrinform into Ukraine’s foreign broadcasting system

Ukrainian MPs have passed at second reading a law on the foreign broadcasting system in Ukraine, which was submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers.

A total of 282 MPs voted for a relevant decision, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

According to the law, the document stipulates the creation of legal grounds for organization and stipulates the tasks and functions of the national foreign broadcasting in Ukraine.

The law envisages that the system of Ukraine’s national foreign broadcasting consists of the state-run “Ukraine’s Multimedia Platform for Foreign Broadcasting” Company and the Ukrainian National News Agency “Ukrinform”.

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