Frankfurter Allgemeine: in Kiev suspect the West in collusion with Moscow

Ukrainian politicians blame the West in readiness to make concessions to Moscow, according to the German journalist Konrad Schuller.

"A nightmare Ukrainian politicians looks like this: the West, exhausted by crises, wars and the influx of immigrants, decides to refuse at least one source of tension ", - reported in the publication.

the people's Deputy from the party " Samopomich ", Vice-speaker of the Rada Oksana Rawfoodist in conversation with FAZ said yesterday discussion in the first reading the draft of the new Constitution, the leaders of France and Germany called the Parliament speaker Valery Groisman and insisted on making changes in the text, on its vision, meet " the interests of Russia ". On a subsequent day, According to a Rawfoodist, the draft Constitution was amended, and approved by Parliament.

"It was imposed on us by our allies. These changes, made at the last minute, are Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, " said she.

The amendment was made in clause 18 of the Constitution, which States that " the forms of local government in certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions are defined by a separate act ". According to Schuller, the conversation between Merkel, Hollande and Groisman and in truth took place on 14 July. In the appropriate on the Internet office of the press service of the government of Germany reported that the leaders endorsed the inclusion in the text of the Constitution of paragraphs relating to Eastern Ukraine, According to the package of measures agreed in Minsk.

But Not only Berlin and Paris tried to influence Kiev: July fifteen, the day before the debate in Parliament, assistant Secretary of state Victoria Nuland during a meeting with the Ukrainian people's representatives said that the amended text of the Constitution " would help to resolve the situation in Donbass ".

in the Pro-Western camp in Ukraine, the majority share the view Rawfoodist that, according to Schuller, creates the danger of a split in the government. It is possible that further discussions on the Constitution for many groups will cause me to dissociate from Petro Poroshenko, says the journalist.

Constitutional reform and the adoption of a permanent law on the special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions has become one of the most important points signed in February of the Minsk agreements. The agreement notes that decentralization should take place by agreement specifically authorized in these areas. Read the full text


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