The United States hopes that Ukraine will meet its obligations under the constitutional reform granting greater powers to the regions, said on Wednesday the U.S. assistant Secretary of state on issues of European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland.
"Ukrainians, as you know, effective working process of constitutional reform. Pleased taking fresh steps to accelerate this work, including the adoption of the law, to grant more powers to the regions. We are cautiously optimistic configured that the European and American help in 2015 will be held constitutional reform that meets the standards, " Nuland said at a hearing in Congress.
"Look, will separatists are ready to work with the government, will there be elections, and whether fresh authorities in the East of Ukraine to work on centralization", she added.
Nuland also said that the execution order of actions for the implementation of the Minsk agreements correlated in February, suggests that the restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty over the Eastern boundary of the last stage, which will occur before the end of 2015 after the constitutional reform and elections in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, took place against a background of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, instigated by the Ukrainian law enforcers who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. According to the results of the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a package of measures involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of a security zone.
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