Verkhovna Rada to consider appeal about issue on compliance of decree on local elections in ORDLO

Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on resolving the situation in Donbas, former President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, informed the TCG participants about submitting an appeal to the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to consider the issue of compliance with the parliamentary decree “on the appointment regular local elections in 2020″ with the Law of Ukraine” on a Special Procedure for Local Self-Government in Certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions,” as well as the Package of Measures to Implement the Minsk Agreements, which was supported by the UN Security Council Resolution 2202 (2015), the President’s Office reports.

“In order to intensify the Minsk negotiation process, taking a proactive position, the Ukrainian side during the work of the group on political issues stressed the need to fulfill the Paris agreements of the Normandy Four leaders, in particular, to continue work on legislation in order to implement the Steinmeier formula,” the President’s Office noted.

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