Nuland arrived at the Happy meeting on decentralization of Ukraine
Consideration of changes in the Constitution of Ukraine on decentralization of the country, will be held in Parliament on Thursday in the presence of assistant Secretary for Europe Victoria Nuland, who is on a visit in Kiev. at a meeting on the issue on making changes to the Constitution of Ukraine Authorized gathered about 10 embassies of different countries, there are also the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and U.S. assistant Secretary of state for Europe Victoria Nuland. the Commissioner of the state Department arrived at the Verkhovna Rada session hall before the meeting and managed to communicate with some Ukrainian officials in the session box, transmits television channel " 112 Ukraine ". In addition, at the meeting scheduled on Thursday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. On the agenda of Ukrainian parliamentarians ? Consideration of the draft law on amendments to the Constitution States (in part related to its decentralization) and the adoption of the conclusion on the transfer of the bill to the constitutional court. Tuesday on the Internet office of the Verkhovna Rada appeared the finalized edits Poroshenko proposes to amend the text of the Constitution. In the modified version of the revisions to the Constitution is proposed to consolidate the situation about the fact that " the peculiarities of local government in certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions are defined by a separate legislative act ", in the Transitional provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine. Changes to the Constitution in part to the decentralization of power will help the development of democracy and civil society, will be the watershed between the Soviet past and the European future of Ukraine. On Wednesday, U.S. assistant Secretary of state Victoria Nuland met with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groisman." for a short period of time we have accumulated professional the amendments to the Constitution, which was approved by the Venice Commission and necessary to change the system of power in post-Soviet European ", ? describe the discussed amendments, the head of the Parliament, noting that they are " to the maximum balanced ". According to Groisman made to the Constitution of Ukraine the Changes required to become a " watershed between the Soviet past and the European future ", and with the vote in the Verkhovna Rada, which will take place at the meeting on Thursday, will begin the " historical period ". First Thursday of the Plenipotentiary Representative LNR on the negotiations of the contact group Vladislav Danego said that the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko Changes to the draft amendments to the Constitution are irrelevant to the Minsk peace process and does not remove the conflict between Kiev and the Donbas in the issue of constitutional reform.