The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko supported the initiative petition removed from Ukrainian passports the page, duplicate data of Residents in the Russian language, replacing it with a page in English.

before on the Internet office of the President has been registered the e-petition initiative be removed from Ukrainian passports the page in Russian. The initiative gathered more than 25 thousand votes, we need To examine the head of the country.

"taking into account the Patriotic stance of the signatories, as well as the desire of the Ukrainian society towards integration into the European Union, I consider it necessary duplication of printed information in the passport of citizen of Ukraine in the Russian language to replace English language ", - reported in Poroshenko's answer to the petition.

The process of filing of petitions started at the head of the country on August 28. To the head of Ukraine considered this or that posted on the Internet office of the petition, it must Express support for a minimum of 25 thousand people for more than three months from the date of publication, after which the President may submit to the Verkhovna Rada the draft laws aimed at solving the petition questions. The Manager should consider each petition not later than 10 days from the time of occurrence of a notification about the start of its consideration.

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