Alexander Shishlo. Zam. the Secretary General of NATO Alexander Vershbow believes that the area and population of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donbass are too small, so that the region could "dictate the rules" throughout Ukraine.

The contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine on 12 February adopted a document, which in addition to the cease fire in the Donbass, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges Kiev to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, adding to the country's Constitution changes, involving the decentralization of power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions"

"The territory occupied by the separatists, are only 2, 8% of the Territory of Ukraine, and their population is about 5, 8%. For this reason, these regions cannot dictate terms to the rest of the country, " said Vershbow on the first day of the week, answering the questions of participants of the parliamentary session of the NATO in Bucharest.

in early March, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on the establishment of the constitutional Commission, which will develop changes to the Main law of the country. The key focus of her work will be a change of power decentralization.

at rallies in early April of last year do not recognise the legality of what happened in Kiev coup d'etat residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions proclaimed the development of " people's republics ", which after held in may referendum declared its sovereignty and later formed the Union of " new Russia ". The second of November have passed elections of heads and parliaments of the self-proclaimed republics. Kiev DND and LNR not recognized and began against the inhabitants of the region force special operation. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 2 thousand people.

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