The Minister of Culture of Ukraine admitted that the Ukrainian government is trying to persuade the primate of the Georgian Church to recognize the “OCU”.
One of the members of the government delegation that visited the Georgian Patriarch Ilia II – Minister of Culture Alexander Tkachenko – stated in plain text that this meeting was “very important for the recognition… of the OCU” by the Georgian Church.
Thus, this is a direct and open confirmation that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine serves the interests of the “OCU”, thereby violating the constitutional principle of equal treatment of all religious organizations and separation of the church from the state.