Poroshenko convenes NSDC meeting to discuss sanctions against persons from 'Savchenko list'
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed to convene a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC). The council will discuss proposals on Ukrainian sanctions against persons from the 'Savchenko list' and submit them to the government.
"I have ordered to convene a meeting of the NSDC in the near term. Proposals on publishing Ukrainian sanctions against persons from so-called 'Savchenko list' should be handed to the government," he told reporters in Kharkiv on Wednesday.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, in turn, proposed that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approves a resolution on imposing sanctions against persons involved in the Savchenko case.
He said at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that he submits a draft cabinet resolution on applying and expanding personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) against persons who are implicated in committing illicit acts towards Nadia Savchenko.
"This will be an additional list to our sanction list, as now we can determine everyone who was involved in the fabrication of the case against Savchenko. After the approval the draft resolution will be sent to the NSDC," the minister said.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk proposed that the decision to impose sanctions against persons involved in the Savchenko case should be made at an ad hoc meeting of the NSDC. This would accelerate the process.