Ukraine: Constitutional Commission holds its first session

Volodymyr Groisman, Petro Poroshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk
during the first session of the Constitutional Commission
(Image: The Guardian)

Ukrainian Constitutional Commission aimed to amend Ukrainian Constitution in the framework of the Constitutional reform, announced earlier, has held its first session on Monday, 6 April. The newly formed Constitutional Commission consists of law experts, politicians, civil activists and representatives of civil society in order to make the process of amendment of Constitution open, according to the official statements.

Amendment of Ukrainian Constitution is being made also in accordance with the terms of Minsk Agreement of 2014, as Ukraine works on granting more rights and powers to the regions and to impose decentralization of government.

Russian troops started to withdraw from Ukrainian border as Russian Sergey Lavrov and US John Kerry met in Paris

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian FM Sergey Lavrov
in Paris

Situation in Eastern Ukraine, where the fights between Ukrainian Armed Forces and forces of the National Guard and the Russian soldiers and Russian backed terrorists are ongoing despite the recently achieved ceasefire in Minsk, remains tense and difficult. International community in its turn calls on Russia to make all the possible and necessary steps in order to deescalate the situation in Donbas region and to stop interfering in Ukrainian internal affairs.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov have met on Tuesday, 14 October, in Paris, France, two days ahead of the planned meeting of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin to be held in Milan, Italy.