The Verkhovna Rada voted for the memorandum of “peace and tranquility”, excluding the constitutional status of the Russian language from there
Kyiv, May 20 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - At the evening meeting, the Verkhovna Rada voted for the “Memorandum of Peace and Tranquility”, proposed by the Party of Regions as a symbolic agreement between the authorities and the opposition to end the confrontation in Donbass. In the final version, it turned out that the clause on the constitutional status of the Russian language was excluded from the document - i.e. Politicians in Kyiv once again did not agree to equal rights with Ukrainians.
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The memorandum speaks of the need to comply with the Geneva Agreements, OSCE recommendations, changes to the Constitution - decentralization of power, the possibility of joining interstate unions only based on the results of a referendum, etc.
The Communist Party of Ukraine refused to support the document - the head of the Communist Party of Ukraine Pyotr Symonenko explained that the clause on the constitutional status of the Russian language was excluded from the document. In addition, the communists questioned the clauses on supposedly equal opportunities for participants in the presidential elections. “We saw all these equal opportunities,” Simonenko said.
Svoboda member Yuri Mikhalchishin followed to the podium. He stated that nationalists also have complaints about the document - they do not believe in the Geneva Agreements, but the constitutional status of the Russian language was quite rightly excluded from the final version.
“The status of the state language is an element of the state structure that my friends, the paratroopers, defend,” said Mikhalchyshyn.
“In the adopted document, we in no way questioned the constitutional status of the Ukrainian language,” Alexander Turchynov, the moderator of the meeting, rejected with satisfaction the fears of the Svoboda member.
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