Making democracy work.Across-party group of Ukrainian Members of Parliament visited Britain Britain (brĭt`ən), alternate term for Great Britain, comprised of England, Scotland, and Wales. Often used synonymously with the United Kingdom, the name Britain is derived from Britannia, in February February: see month. for ten days on `Making democracy work', organized by MRA's Foundations for Freedom programme. During their stay, the MPs met members of the British government and parliament, civil servants and academics. They visited Liverpool to study partnerships for urban renewal and North Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England. to investigate democracy in bi-lingual communities. A visit to the BBC focussed BBC Focus is a British monthly magazine about science and technology published in Bristol by Origin Publishing. Edited by Paul Parsons, it covers all aspects of science and technology and is written for general readers as well as people with a knowledge of science. issues of media regulation. The group also looked at a drug awareness programme in a London school and at community policing. The programme focussed on the values which underpin democracy, particularly trust and dialogue. At the final reception several MPs spoke of what they had learnt. `Many people think that politics and morality belong to different worlds,' said Andriy Mostysky, a member of the foreign affairs committee See also United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations The Foreign Affairs Committee is one of many Select Committees of the British House of Commons, which scrutinises the work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. in the Ukrainian parliament. `We have seen the importance of morality and must work to raise Ukraine and Britain to a higher level.' |
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