17:22 15.04.2013

Rybak: There will be no offsite meetings if opposition does not block parliament's work

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Rybak: There will be no offsite meetings if opposition does not block parliament's work

Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Rybak has promised that plenary meetings will not be held outside the building of the Ukrainian parliament if the opposition does not block its work.

"I promise you that not a single meeting will be held outside the session hall. If you [opposition MPs] block [the meetings], I'm telling you openly that the session will be held where it's possible to take legal decisions," he said at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada's conciliatory council on Monday.

He reiterated that MPs would not hold a repeat vote on laws that adopted by the majority outside the parliament building on April 4.

"There will be no revote. They have been signed, all decisions have been legally made," Rybak said.

As reported, on April 4, majority MPs held a parliament meeting in the assembly hall of a Verkhovna Rada committee, since the session hall of parliament on Hrushevskoho Street was blocked by the opposition.

The Verkhovna Rada speaker has already signed the laws adopted by the majority and sent them for signature by the president.

The opposition called on the speaker and the president not to sign the laws adopted at an offsite parliament meeting, citing the illegality of such a meeting.

On April 12, the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine ruled that the Verkhovna Rada session held on April 4 in the assembly hall of parliamentary committees on Bankova Street was lawful.

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