Parliament dismisses head of foreign policy committee

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has approved a resolution to dismiss Bohdan Yaremenko as head of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-parliamentary Cooperation.

A total of 317 MPs supported the relevant decision at a parliament’s meeting on Friday, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

The resolution, No.2751, "On amending the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the election of heads, first deputy heads, deputy heads, secretaries, members of the committees of the Verkhovna Rada of the ninth convocation” provides for the appointment of MP from the Servant of the People faction Oleksandr Merezhko as head of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-parliamentary Cooperation to replace Bohdan Yaremenko.

The resolution also envisages the appointment of MP from the European Solidarity faction Volodymyr Viatrovich as a member of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy.

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