Ukraine "was, there is and will be" a unitary state, said the country's leader Petro Poroshenko at the meeting of the Council of regional development.
"Ukraine was, there is and will be a unitary state. We do not change unitary device " ? Poroshenko said.
"Decentralization has anything to society with federalization. I will not allow decentralization in matters of defence, the fight against illegal activities of officials of the protection of the rights and freedoms of the Inhabitants and the military sector ", ? he said, reports the news Agency. Riots at Rada on August 31 were initiated after the deputies in the first reading adopted amendments to the Constitution in terms of decentralization, despite a rally at the walls Happy and blocked the Presidium. Protesters twice attempted to storm Parliament. Similarly, in the security forces, a grenade was thrown. Remember, on July 16, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko submitted to the Parliament amendments to the Constitution with the regulations on the status of Donbass. This Poroshenko, introducing the draft changes to the main law of the country, declared that Ukraine "was, there is and will be" a unitary state, the proposed changes to the Constitution do not provide for a special status for Donbass. 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 suggestions republics of Donbass.

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