Ukrainian Information Policy Ministry is developing an information reintegration strategy for the Crimea
On January 13th, the First Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine, Emine Dzheppar, stated at a press conference in Kyiv that the Ukrainian Information Policy Ministry is developing an information reintegration strategy for the Crimea which is scheduled to be presented in late March.
According to the Information Policy Ministry’s idea, the document should become an action plan for the Ukrainian Government regarding the issue of the Crimea. If this happens, each Ukrainian Ministry will have to do its part for the implementation of the strategy, Dzheppar clarified.
“This is the communications strategy, the document, which will help us understand what messages should be used to talk with three target audiences- the world, the Crimea, and Ukraine. We want to make the international community to show more interest in the issue of Crimea. In addition, we wish to see how to make Ukrainians more active towards the same issue. Our logic is simple, if each Ukrainian is sincerely worrying about the Crimea, then the expression of this worry will influence the political discourse and politicians will be more engaged in the resolution of the Crimean issue. That needs to happen as the current situation is painful for Ukrainians who feel that they are cut off from Ukraine and even worse forgotten,” the First Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine explained.
The expert group under the Ukrainian Information Policy Ministry began its work on the information integration strategy of the Crimea in 2016. This process involves experts from the Information Policy Ministry, Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories, internally displaced people, the National Institute for Strategic Studies, the apparatus of the National Security and Defense Council, and the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research.