Putin tried to convince Kiev to negotiate with the Donbass amendments to the Constitution

Kiev is obliged to amend the Constitution With approval of the Donbas, but the dialogue in question was no, said the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
"I Wish to remind you that in Accordance With the Minsk agreements clarify in the Constitution of Ukraine provides, but they must be done in the process of discussion and dialogue, With the approval of the Donbass, With the territories of the unrecognized republics DNR and LC. Nothing like that, unfortunately, the current government in Kiev does not undertake any approval of these amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine does not occur ", - quotes RIA "news" the message of Putin.
"This is the most significant fundamental thing. If we are talking about the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements, let me remind you: amendments to the Constitution must be agreed With the Donbass ? time, the law on elections to local governments shall be agreed With the Donbass ? two, is obliged to adopt a law on Amnesty ? 3, It is not accepted, and shall be enacted the law on the special status of these territories. He accepted, but its introduction was delayed again, " he said. He noticed that the four political settlement rules are not enforced. Before the Ministry of foreign Affairs has said about the necessity of the consent of the Donbass amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine. The head of the Donetsk national Republic Alexander Zakharchenko on Wednesday said that the ongoing Ukraine constitutional reform not only complies with the Minsk agreements and fundamentally opposed to it. Kiev must include in the draft reform of the Constitution detailed provisions on the special status of Donbass, said Tuesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov In.. on the first day of the week the head of Ukraine 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." On 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. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expressed With reference to the people, in which he described 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. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of July, the victims of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine began more than 6, 8 thousand People, at least 17 thousand have Received damage of health.


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