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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said he is initiating the drafting of a new humanitarian policy plan.

According to the president, the whole humanitarian policy of independent Ukraine was superficial, "like a bad lecture about patriotism."

"The whole humanitarian policy of independent Ukraine over the 20 years of our modern statehood wasn’t deprived of some kind of indulgence by the government towards the public and ordinary citizens. This was something like a permanent lecture about patriotism, and, maybe, even a bad lecture," Yanukovych said at a meeting of the public humanitarian council in Kyiv on Thursday.

He said that Ukraine’s humanitarian policy was not aimed at the inner world of a person.

"That’s why I have ordered the drawing up of a new humanitarian policy plan, which the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is currently working on," he said.

Yanukovych said that it would be expedient to create a working group consisting of members of the presidential public humanitarian council and scientists from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

At the same time, the president said that the work on drawing up a new humanitarian policy plan must be completed before the consideration by parliament of the draft state budget for 2012 in order to foresee the funds for national projects in the sphere of culture.