Lavrov: Kiev must prescribe the special status of Donbass in the Constitution

Kiev must include in the draft reform of the Constitution detailed provisions on the special status of Donbass, said the Head of Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov In..
Lavrov reminded that adopted in the first reading the draft law includes a provision about the fact that a special procedure of local self-government is determined by a separate act. In addition, this rule will be made in the transitional provisions of the Constitution.
"The remaining paragraphs of these transitional provisions in a few years just have to stop working. Probably the same fate awaits this hints, not very transparent and clear, that is promised to those territories. But instead of promises, similar blurry and foggy, the Kiev authorities are required to include detailed provisions on self-government, on the special status regions of Donbass ", ? Lavrov said, RIA " Novosti ". The Minister emphasized that the Minsk agreements is recorded that amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine " in the part concerning the Donbass must be approved by the leaders of these territories and must include real elements of decentralization ", which drew attention Lavrov, in February in Minsk himself was formulated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande." This Russian language, and It special economic opportunities for these areas, It is their participation in the appointment of prosecutors for their territories, It is their right to create a militia and much more. In the Minsk document says, because It all has to be written into the Constitution by agreement with the Donetsk and Lugansk", - has said Lavrov. Yesterday the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in the process of the editorials stated that a special procedure of local self-government in Donetsk and Luhansk regions provides for separate legislative act, " which has twice been approved by Parliament." Remember, the first day of the week the Verkhovna Rada with the ugliness adopted in the first reading the presidential draft amendments to the Constitution. While at the building Happy riots occurred. Protesters twice attempted to storm Parliament. Similarly, in the security forces was thrown grenade combat. According to the summary data, in the end, the riots cost the lives of two soldiers of the National guard of Ukraine, 130 people have been injured, six of them are in a state of crisis. It was stated that 1st national guardsman, whose death was announced, was forcibly deprived of his life by a bullet, although a number of Ukrainian activists argued that it was touched by a shell. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expressed with reference to the people in connection with the vote in Parliament on changes to the Constitution of the country, provoked numerous riots outside Parliament. Poroshenko said that the events that took place outside Parliament, "the stab in the back" and " anti-Ukrainian campaign ". The head of the international Department of the state Duma Alexei Pushkov after the events of the Verkhovna Rada called Ukraine " the eternal country of the Maidan ". Remember, on July 16, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko submitted to the Parliament amendments to the Constitution with the regulations on the status of Donbass. This Poroshenko, introducing the draft changes to the main law of the country, declared that Ukraine "was, there is and will be" a unitary state, the proposed changes to the Constitution do not provide for a special status for Donbass. In the Donbass told that these amendments are irrelevant to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated before that shows the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada the project of constitutional reform completely ignores suggestions republics of Donbass.


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