The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov said created at the initiative of the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe thorbj?rn Jagland, the expert mechanism on decentralization in Ukraine.

"just not so long ago by the decision of Mr. Jagland was established the expert mechanism for the presence of specialists of the Council of Europe in each of 25 regions of Ukraine for consideration of issues that are able to be useful for the reform of local government and particularly in the implementation of the decentralization, which so many claim," said Lavrov on the results of negotiations with Jagland.

The Minister has noticed that it is particularly important that this CE activity is based on elaborated in the framework of applicable standards and regulations ".

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