Scanners have been installed in the building of the Verkhovna Rada in order to check Ukrainian MPs for prohibited items, Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy has said.
“We brought scanners in one night and installed them on all the aisles so that there was no element of humiliation, so that nobody checks you, so that you can come in, like in the airport, put your personal belongings, they are scanned, and you pass if there is no red signal,” he told reporters in Kyiv on Thursday, March 22.
Parubiy expressed confidence that MPs would quickly get used to the new system of access to the parliament building.
“Today was the first day the law is in effect. We had two precedents, and I am convinced that in a day or two everyone will get used to that, everyone will be in the equal situation, and this system will work as it works in every airport in Ukraine,” he said.
As reported, on March 20, the Verkhovna Rada adopted at first reading and as a whole the amendments to the legislation banning persons with weapons, explosives and other prohibited items from entering the buildings of government agencies that are under state protection.
The law also foresees that servicemen of the State Guard Department of Ukraine, while ensuring state protection, will have the right not to ban persons who carry prohibited items from entering the above buildings.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed the law on March 21.
The law will come into force from the date of its publication.
