The Constitutional Commission of Ukraine at a meeting on Friday approved draft amendments to the fundamental law on decentralization, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Groysman, who heads the commission, has said.

"I want to congratulate all the members of the Constitutional Commission on the first decision that we made, I want to emphasize and to announce that we will continue our work you and we will continue to work out our proposals," he said at the meeting on Friday.

He said the draft constitutional amendments on decentralization will be submitted to Ukrainian President Peter Poroshenko.