The Verkhovna Rada has ensured the creation of technical conditions and standards for holding a nationwide moment of silence. The Parliament adopted the relevant draft law (No.14144), the Verkhovna Rada reported on Wednesday, writes UNN.
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It is designed to remove technical obstacles and officially allow cities and communities to use the national alert system to announce a moment of silence - daily at 9 a.m.
As MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak explained, "this is the establishment at the legislative level of a nationwide moment of silence as a daily commemorative event."
"Before the second reading, a norm was added that every year, on the fourth Saturday of November at 4:00 p.m., there will be a nationwide moment of silence and the 'Light a Candle' action, in memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933," Zheleznyak also indicated on social networks.
Rada supported allowing the use of the alert system for the moment of silence at 9 AM16.12.25, 14:49