The CEC adopted from the " Batkivshchyna " petition for referendum on NATO membership
The party " Batkivshchyna " informs that the decisions of the meeting of the inhabitants of a referendum concerning the accession of Ukraine to NATO sent to the Central electoral Commission and adopted in the prescribed manner.
5th September at the initiative of the party " Batkivshchyna " and its leader Yulia Tymoshenko in Kiev was held a Meeting of Residents in favour of holding the all-Ukrainian referendum on Ukraine's accession to NATO. The meeting approved the wording of the question proposed to be put to a referendum. The question will be: " do you support Ukraine's accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as the system of collective security?". Also created an initiative group, which is mandated to build the collection of signatures in support of the referendum.
" Commissioner meeting - people's people's choice faction " Batkivshchyna " Serhiy Vlasenko - received a certificate of acceptance documents (relative to a referendum - as amended) and the registration of members of the initiative group ", - reported in the report on the Internet representation of the party.
according to Ukrainian law, a referendum on any issue has the opportunity to be appointed only if collected not less than 3 million signatures collected More than 2 thirds of the areas and not less than 100 thousand signatures in each area.
before the government of Ukraine approved the draft law on the abolition of non-aligned status of the country and the capture rate for membership in NATO. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the purpose of Kiev, " the special status between Ukraine and NATO ".