Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has announced that the Ukrainian institute which will help to increase trust to Ukraine in international intellectual and cultural society will be created in coming months.
“We have analyzed experience of European countries. This experience is different. How the country can present itself abroad? In the past three years we carried out ambitious work… There are many separate projects. We believe that it is time to create the Ukrainian institute. After analyzing the experience and holding talks with civil society and many experts we believe that the most optimal form for us is a state-run institution which would not be part of the Foreign Ministry, but it will be affiliated with it,” the minister said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
Klimkin said that the institute will be financed partially from the national budget and partially from grants, donations and cooperation with charitable foundations.
“We will give concrete sums in several months. We have foreseen the funds in our budget (the budget of the Foreign Ministry),” he said.
He said that it will stake from two to four months to create the institute.
The minister said that it is planned to open representative offices of the institute in European country, North America and Asia
