U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt has expressed his hope that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will pass a bill on amendments to the Constitution at first reading next week.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony for participants of the internship program at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and central executive authorities over 2014-2015 on Friday, Pyatt said that these constitutional changes will allow for holding real decentralization, the introduction of the European principle of subsidiarity, and building a democratic European Ukraine, the press service of the Ukrainian parliament has reported.

Pyatt noted that under the chairmanship of Volodymyr Groysman, the Verkhovna Rada has made some very serious steps towards introducing profound strategic reforms at the legislative level.

The ambassador said that a new political culture is now emerging within the walls of the parliament, a new policy where deputies come here to serve to the Ukrainian people and assert the principle that this should always be a national body.

For his part, Groysman said: "I too have been training for the past half a year, doing some kind of internship and gaining my own experience, a difficult and complicated one, but I know that it is within these walls that real reforms must be carried out, a real rebuilding of our state from being post-Soviet into becoming modern European."

The speaker stressed the need to reform the internal work of the parliament. "We will borrow the best experience of our European partners to make open, public and quality decisions to ensure a completely different quality to our laws and the broadest possible inclusivity in the discussion process," Groysman said.

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