Full Amnesty for participants of the events in the Donbass has the ability to be carried out only after the local elections in the region under Ukrainian law, said Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Konstantin Eliseev at a press conference on the first day of the week.

before the participants of the "Normandy summit" in Paris on 2 October agreed that the Amnesty at the Donbass will be carried out in Accordance with prepared by the legislative act of local self-government in certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and under the current Amnesty law.

"We concluded that a Full pardon does not have the opportunity to be entered before the local elections, for one simple reason - the decision on the Amnesty are required to approve the legally elected authorities," - said Elisha.

He also said that Kyiv does not plan to adopt a new law on Amnesty and wants to spend it on Ukrainian law in force.

"It (the Amnesty law - ed.) already exists. We used the Paris venue to demonstrate that It adopted in congruence with the Minsk agreements and fully meets all the norms and standards. In truth, there have been attempts, so We adopted a new law on Amnesty, giving complete Amnesty to all without exception to the militants, was also a thesis about the fact that this law must be implemented before the so-called "legitimate" local elections. This position was pushed by us ", - noticed the Commissioner of the administration of the Ukrainian President.

the Commissioner of Kiev in the political subgroup of the trilateral contact group on Donbas before Roman Bezsmertny said that the participants of the "Normandy summit" in Paris agreed that an Amnesty at the Donbass will be carried out in Accordance with prepared by the legislative act of local self-government in certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and under the current 1996 law on Amnesty.

The Ukrainian Government has appointed elections to local authorities on 25 October. The Authorities of the self-proclaimed LNR appointed local elections on November 1, but in DND they are required to pass on 18 October. Power DND and LNR has stated many times About the conduct of its local elections regardless of the wishes of the authorities of Ukraine and said that Kyiv is in the hands of individual adopted the law " On local elections ", not agreeing with Lugansk and Donetsk, which does not comply with the Minsk agreements. A complex of measures on implementation of Minsk agreements of February 12, obliges the Ukrainian Authorities to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of holding local elections.

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