COMMETARY. Deputy Chairman of the UOC DECR Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy

«For the period that Yuriy Reshetnikov heads the State Committee for Nationalities and Religions, the highly constructive relations have been established between the Kyiv Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its separate departments with the cabinet of Ministers through the respective plenipotentiary body", noted Vladyka Alexander.    

As it is known, very much depends on the person that heads one or another committee or organization. Properly speaking, Yuriy Reshetnikov possesses such personal qualities as positive tuning towards cooperation, mutual understanding and adoption of the positive decisions on many issues raising within the period of our cooperation.  

Since May 2009, when Yuriy Reshetnikov was appointed head of the State Committee for Nationalities and Religions, in Ukraine many events of socio-historical nature has happened, in whose organization and conduction both the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well as the respective state authorities has invested much effort.  On what was done one can read in particular in the annual report of the Department for External Church Relations of the UOC. Yuriy Reshetnikov was directly involved in all those events. In particular, the arrival of Patriarch Kirill to Ukraine should be singled out, organized under the command of Yuriy Reshetnikov.  Many decisions have been adopted for the benefit of the Church within this period.

In particular, Bishop Alexander noted that it Yuriy Reshetnikov is pleasant to work with, since he is the state official of the new formation, which builds constructively the relations of the committee he is in charge of, unlike his predecessors,   brought up to the principles of the soviet power."   

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