The Venice Commission has been urged to speed up the correction of the Ukrainian Constitution
The head of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio has published a message in which he asked the Ukrainian side without delay to adopt amendments to the Constitution as part of local government. "Decentralization ? one of the key reforms that are necessary for the democratic development of the country" ? quoted him as saying " European true ". Buquicchio said that he welcomes the approval of the draft changes to the basic law by the constitutional Commission, and said that the political reform is Also part of the Minsk agreements." The rapid adoption of the text of the law by the Verkhovna Rada is very important, taking into account the local elections planned for October, as well as the ongoing dialogues in the framework of the Minsk process, " Buquicchio said. Remember, Kiev, Ukraine has developed amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine in the part of the decentralization reforms, providing a three-tier system of local government. The project does not provide for a special status for certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but only prescribes that He be Appointed a special legislative act. Also Poroshenko said about the participation of commissioners of Donbass in the creation of change in the Constitution. He Also said that will not give the ability to put pressure on Kiev in the provision of the Donbass special status. On the first day weekend the Head of the Luhansk national Republic Igor Carpenter stated that the changes in the Constitution of Ukraine, the commissioners of Donbass was not discussed. The head of the Donetsk national Republic Alexander Zakharchenko has said that the Kiev Draft amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine outright violates the obligations that the Ukrainian authorities took on their own shoulders in Minsk. As reported by the print edition OPINION, in Donetsk and Lugansk on the last working day of the week already recalled that no one in the constitutional Commission in Kiev were sent. The draft Constitution is contrary to the Minsk agreements and has no relation to the peace process, said the Plenipotentiary representative of the DND in the contact group Denis Putilin. He said that eleven paragraph of the Minsk agreements "clearly prescribes the agreement and not just a review or something else with the authorized" certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".