Kiev could offer "special status to some areas"

Ukrainian President of Petro Poroshenko has sent to parliamentary procedure a bill on granting some areas in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions "special status."

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 16.09.2014.

13:00

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Kiev could offer "special status to some areas"

News agencies reported Poroshenko arrived at the session of the assembly that ratified the agreement on association between Ukraine and the EU, and could consider the situation in the area of "the anti-terrorist operation" in the Donetsk basin.

Poroshenko yesterday met with heads of parliamentary groups and explained that the key point of his peace plan was special status for certain regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, which would have "a clear time limit of three years and factual elements of decentralization with the full and unconditional respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine."

During the three years of this status, he said, it will be possible to implement "deep decentralization, which should also be subject to certain amendments of the Constitution."

Local media reported that Poroshenko suggested a special system of self-government "in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions" during those three years.

Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk authorities do not consider Poroshenko's plan relevant, while the prime minister of the People's Republic of Lugansk (LNR) said the people there have already made a choice - "a separate LNR."

The agency added that the status of Donbas was a stumbling block in the negotiations between Kiev and the rebels, whose leaders said they aspire to the entire territory of the two areas in the east of Ukraine and would not agree to a special status only for the part that is currently under their control.

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