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Opening Remarks at Meeting with Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights.Part 2
November 23, 2009
Moscow, Kremlin

Выступление на заседании Совета по содействию развитию институтов гражданского общества и правам человека.
23 ноября 2009 года
Москва, Кремль

Certainly, I think it is our common duty to support non-profit organisations influence in society and help to attract talented people and philanthropists money into this sector, because this is essential for developing the activity in this area that is in our interests too. We therefore need to encourage philanthropists and help create incentives and motivation for the volunteers also working in these organisations.

There are several other matters that I think we will also definitely examine today. They include implementing the National Anti-Corruption Plan. There is still much to be done in this respect. We all know well what the situation is today. I am not in favour of over-dramatising things and I think that the steps we have taken already at least send a serious signal that this is the direction in which our society should develop and the road for improving our political system. It is easy to lament that corruption is impossible to eradicate so long as the bureaucrats remain in place, especially in Russia with its ill-adapted political and governance traditions. It is far more difficult to actually work, make decisions, improve laws and introduce restrictions. I am sure that you will be frank in sharing your views on this subject with me today.

We will discuss other topics too that come under the Councils mandate. This includes above all the situation with civil society development, the problems it faces today, and also the situation with protecting human rights and the changes you think should be made to our political system and our countrys legal system.

I will not take up any more of your time, because I am sure you have far more interesting things to tell me than my own opening remarks. I therefore propose that we start work. But I want to say from the outset that we should all understand that our discussions are friendly and at the same time open. As last time, I have given the instruction that our meeting today be recorded and the transcript made public for everyone interested in following our discussions and the Councils work.

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