Poroshenko’s administration refuses to publish agreement with Pat. Bartholomew, in defiance of Ukrainian law

Kiev, November 14, 2018

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s administration has refused a journalistsic request to provide a copy of the agreement signed between the head of state and Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople on November 3, reports Ukrainian News.

According to Ukrainian law, documents must be provided within 5 working days following such a request.

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Instead, in response the President’s administration delayed the deadline up to 20 working days, referring to part 4 of Article 20 of the Ukrainian law “On Access to Public Information.” The decision to extend the deadline is made by the department responsible for access to public information.

According to the law, the extension of the deadline is possible when the request “concerns the presenting of a large volume of information or requires a search for the information among a significant amount of data.”

The administration’s response does not specify which of these provisions it is relying on, though the request for a single document would not appear to fall under either.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s official website has also not divulged the contents of the document signed, only reporting that,

On Saturday, November 3, 2018, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Excellency President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine reaffirmed their desire to enhance the cooperation between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Nation—within the framework of the process for granting Autocephaly to the unified Orthodox Church in Ukraine—during the President’s visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s headquarters at the Phanar.

Immediately following their private meeting in the Patriarchal Office, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and President Poroshenko signed a Bilateral Agreement on Cooperation and Coordination before their colleagues and numerous representatives of the mass media in the Chamber of the Throne.

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11/14/2018

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