13:01 01.02.2018

There are 704 merged territorial communities in Ukraine

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There are 704 merged territorial communities in Ukraine

There are 704 merged territorial communities in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services Hennadiy Zubko has said.

"There are already 665 communities, but those communities that submitted documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, we already consider them as merged territorial communities and their number is 704," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

According to the deputy prime minister, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr and Poltava regions are leaders in the issues of decentralization, and Kyiv and Zakarpattia regions should double their efforts.

Zubko also noted that the government was trying to use all opportunities for the voluntary unification of the communities.

"It is important for us that the communities join voluntarily ... When we understand that more than 50-60% of the region is already covered by territorial communities and there are communities which cannot find the strength to join this or that community, then I think, we will arrive at the administrative decision-making and attach to that created communities those communities that are weak and cannot take part in the unification process," he explained.

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