Amendments to Constitution must be passed along with new law on judicial system and status of judges - Yatseniuk

10:54, 12.02.2016 1 min read

The Ukrainian parliament must pass amendments to the Constitution in part of justice along with the bills on the judicial system and the status of judges, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said.

"We expect that the Ukrainian parliament will support at second reading these amendments to the Constitution along with the new bill on the judicial system and the new bill on the status of judges," Yatseniuk said at a meeting of the Interior Ministry and Justice Ministry held in Kyiv on Wednesday.

He also said that the Ukrainian parliament has made a first step to amendments to the Constitution that "would allow conducting the full re-evaluation of judges and changing the country's court system in general."

"Our goal is real justice in Ukraine. Justice is when Ukrainian courts of honest, issue rulings only on the basis of law and justice, when the Ukrainian judicial system is fully independent," he said.