By KYIV. Dec 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing the Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday on the foundations of domestic and foreign policy, said that one of the key tasks of the Ukrainian state is to preserve Ukrainian refugees as part of the Ukrainian society.
"We must restore territorial integrity. But we must also restore public integrity. Millions of our people who have become displaced and found refuge abroad should not become refugees," Zelensky said.
At the same time, he thanked all the states and peoples of the European Union that provided assistance to the Ukrainians, noting that it is necessary to ensure their return.
"We must preserve them as part of Ukrainian society. We must ensure their return," the president said.
According to him, this process includes such components of work as: guaranteeing security and economic growth, restoration and subsequent integration of Ukraine with the European Union and other leading actors of the free world, protection of human rights and equalization of social and personal freedoms in Ukraine and the advanced countries of stay of Ukrainian migrants, the creation of a modern veteran policy and a system of rehabilitation of those who the war put in the most difficult situation.
"So that our society has precisely this feeling – that no one is superfluous for us. This is a task … That we care about all Ukrainians, that we can help each and every one. A country that supports all of its own people is a country to which one wants to return. We must make sure that if the world sees the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag, they know that it is both about freedom and about people who have a strong home and who will always be helped, no matter what happens to them. Because we are all Ukrainians. And that’s enough," Zelensky said.
