Medvedchuk urges Ukrainian deputes to pass laws on Donbas special status
Leader of the All-Ukrainian Social Movement Ukrainian Choice - People's Right, Viktor Medvedchuk has said a passage of a number of bills concerning the separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including the one "On a special status" and the amnesty for militants, is a guarantee of peaceful resolution of the Donbas conflict.
"I am convinced: Verkhovna Rada is perfectly aware that the law 'On preventing the prosecution and punishment of the individuals who participated in the events on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions' will allow to release over a hundred Ukrainian military servicemen and civilians. Moreover, a passage of the laws on the amnesty, on elections in Donbas, on the special status for the separate districts of the Donetsk region and the separate districts of the Luhansk region, as well as changes to the Ukrainian Constitution is a guarantee of peaceful resolution of the conflict in Donbas," he wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday.
With a passage of these bills "peace will be restored in eastern Ukraine, our fellow citizens, including civilians, will stop being killed there," Medvedchuk said.
"In the year and a half (since the meeting of the Normandy Quartet in Minsk on February 12, 2015) parliamentarians have never found a political course, nor the will and courage to vote for the laws that Ukraine undertook to pass as part of implementation of the Minsk Agreements," Medvedchuk said.