Received the blessing of the Verkhovna Rada amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine allow to speak about the fact that the authorities complied with their obligations under the Minsk agreements, said on Thursday the U.S. assistant Secretary of state Victoria Nuland.




"That will respond to any requests in relation to compliance by Ukraine the Minsk agreements, whether these requests are from Donetsk and Lugansk, or from the capital of Russia, and is now (Kiev ? approx. OPINION) you can say: "Our duty is made in respect of you (Donbass ? approx. OPINION), the question remains, "said Nuland in Kiev in response to the request to comment on the amendments to the Constitution, reports RIA" Novosti ". On Thursday the Verkhovna Rada approved amendments to the Constitution, the draft was sent to the constitutional court for evaluation. The direction of change in the constitutional court upheld 288 deputies are Glad of 450. The meeting was attended by the us Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt and U.S. assistant Secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia Victoria Nuland. In the Donbass told that these amendments are irrelevant to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated before that shows the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada the project of constitutional reform completely ignores the suggestions of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass.

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