20:51 04.06.2013

Presidential aide says Ukraine needs law on freedom of peaceful assembly

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Presidential aide and head of the main department for constitutional and legal modernization at the presidential administration, Maryna Stavniychuk, has said that all factions in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, share the idea that a law on the freedom of peaceful assembly has to be adopted in Ukraine.

"Our initiative to pass a law on the freedom of peaceful assembly was supported by the Verkhovna Rada. Despite the ambiguous evaluation of the existing proposals regarding the matter of this bill, still the majority of faction members, most factions in the parliament, are inclined to think that there is serious necessity to oblige the Constitution of Ukraine demanding the approval of a relevant bill," she told journalists in Kyiv on Tuesday, before a meeting of the coordinating council for the development of civil society under the president of Ukraine.

Stavniychuk said that the document should be submitted to the parliament and discussed.

According o her, recent political events in Ukraine showed that the problem of peaceful assembly is serious and a relevant law must be adopted in Ukraine as soon as possible.

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