11:12 28.01.2016

Ukrainian side declines DPR's ideas on Ukrainian Constitution's reform – Kyiv's representative

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Ukrainian side declines DPR's ideas on Ukrainian Constitution's reform – Kyiv's representative

Representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), who have attended the Minsk meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group, have put forward their own conditions of a reform of the Ukrainian Constitution, which have been declined, Ukrainian representative in the political subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group Roman Bezsmertny told Interfax.

"The Ukrainian side has declined these proposals," Bezsmertny told Interfax on Wednesday evening.

He confirmed that the DPR wanted a DPR quota in Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada to be stipulated at the constitutional level, representatives of the self-proclaimed republics to have the right to harmonize all the bills and the veto right on decisions in the sphere of foreign policy.

Additionally, Donetsk wants a full amnesty of all the participants in the conflict.

The DPR also wants "the region of Donbas" to be granted a broad economic (the right to trade with Russia), political (the right to elect its parliament, government and president) and cultural (the protection of the Russian language) autonomy.

The DPR's initiatives on the reform of the Ukrainian fundamental law also envisage that they demand the right be granted to them to independently form the personnel of police, security services, judicial bodies, the prosecutor's office, border troops and other institutions "without coordination with the Kyiv authorities."

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