Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has vetoed the bill on internal affairs agencies adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on July 2, 2015.

The president made this decision after a meeting with the participation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, reads a statement on the official website of the head of state posted on Friday.

"Some of the issues, which the said document is expected to solve, are within the competence of the government, and the others have already been resolved through other legal acts," the statement explained.

It was reported earlier that the Verkhovna Rada had passed bill No. 2561 on interior agencies at the second reading and on the whole by 242 votes on July 2.

"The Interior Ministry is turning into, so to speak, a holding governing the central executive bodies, which include the National Police, the National Guard, the Migration Service, the State Border Service, and the Service of Service Centers," Yuriy Lutsenko, a member of the parliamentary committee on legislative support of law enforcement functions, said in presenting the bill at the parliament.

"Hence, this law will regulate relations between the Interior Ministry and the central executive bodies reporting to it, which are to be set up separately," Lutsenko said.

The document regulates the interior minister's interaction with the chiefs of the police, the migration service, the National Guard, and other executive government bodies, Lutsenko said. "This law also clearly stipulates the structure of the ministry itself […] The police, the border guards, the migration service, the National Guard earlier had their own logistics, medicine, education, accounting, and IT departments, now this all will be centralized, and one team will perform these functions instead of five," Lutsenko said.

The bill stipulates that interior agencies constitute a system of executive government bodies and military units involved in and enforcing a government policy in the area of interior affairs. The system of interior bodies includes the Interior Ministry, the National Police, the State Border Service, the State Migration Service, the State Emergency Situations Service, and the National Guard.

Poroshenko on August 4 signed into law a bill On National Police also passed by the Verkhovna Rada on July 2 (bill No. 2822). The law was published in the parliamentary newspaper The Voice of Ukraine on August 6 and will take effect three months from the day following the day of its official publication, except for several provisions.

The section on the police subdivisions of the patrol police in Kyiv will take effect on the day it is published. The section on the police subdivisions in Odesa and Lviv will come into effect on August 20, 2015.

Poroshenko said at the end of July that he was not fully satisfied with some provisions of the bill on police passed by the Verkhovna Rada. In particular, he insisted that policemen must be protected from any political influence. "But if you choose between vetoing the bill or signing the bill into law and giving police reform the green light […], I am sure that the bill needs to be signed," he said.