DNR authorities expect that the meeting in Minsk will discuss changes to the Constitution

The self-proclaimed authorities of Donetsk national Republic hope that the meeting of the working sub-group in Minsk will consider the issue of amending the Constitution of Ukraine, said on the first day of the week the head of administration of the head of DNR Maxim Leshchenko. First of DNR and LNR sent to the constitutional Commission of Ukraine and the contact group with its proposals on changes to the Ukrainian Constitution. For example, they propose to include in the Basic law section of the special status of Donbass, constitutional established its non-aligned status of Ukraine, to make a division of national police, controlled by the local authorities, to secure official status for the Russian language, to introduce a special economic regime.

"The official results until now, no, yesterday evening, the sub-group headed by Denis Pushilin went to Minsk. More real results we expected after the meeting, "said Leshchenko correspondents, answering correspondents' questions about the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine.

first speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Volodymyr Groysman said that the constitutional Committee will look at proposals for changes to the Basic law, if they come from the trilateral contact group on settling the situation in Donbas.

The contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine on 12 February adopted a document, which in addition to the cease fire in the Donbass, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges Kiev to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, adding to the country's Constitution changes, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".


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