The delegates of a session of the Slavonic Parliamentary Union that is taking place in Minsk on May 26-27 will introduce proposals on improving the national legislations in the part of tourism and combating human trafficking.
The participants of the session will consider and adopt two model draft laws: on tourism development between the Slavonic states and inadmissibility of human trafficking.
Deputy of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine Vasily Yevtukhov hopes that the aforementioned draft laws will be included into the national legislations of the Slavonic countries. “Some countries do not have legislation aimed at the counteraction to human trafficking,” the interlocutor said. “We wish to fix the very notion “human trafficking” and determine whether it is trafficking in human beings when Slavonic women are taken to the brothels of Western Europe,” he added.
Vaclav Exner, a deputy of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, stated that the proposals to develop the tourist sector included in the model draft law would be aimed at the rapprochement between the Slavonic nations through the tourist exchange.
The deputy of the Czech Parliament considers one of the most important problems impeding tourism development is the visa policy of some countries.
Sergei Kostyan, the deputy chairman of the permanent commission for international affairs and links with the CIS of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, said that Minsk had welcomed representatives of such countries as Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and others to partake in the events. Representatives of the Slavonic diasporas from Central Asia, Baltic states and Moldova have also been invited.
The Czech Republic has initiated and developed a draft law on tourism development. The document will help develop tourism at the territory of the Slavonic states including Belarus. “This bill will simplify visas for tourist groups and develop special programmes for tourist services,” Sergei Kostyan noted.
Sergei Kostyan added that the draft law on inadmissibility of human trafficking would be aimed at regulating the issues related to the labour migration.
Written by belta.by
