Kyiv to discuss bill on Donbas with Western partners
KYIV. July 10 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has prepared a bill on returning the state sovereignty over the areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk region, its submitting to the Verkhovna Rada is planned in September following consultations with Ukraine's strategic partners, NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said.
"The NSDC office prepared the relevant law together with experts. We also involved representatives of the deputy corps and the coalition in it. The bill is ready but President [Petro Poroshenko] ordered to hold consultations with our strategic partners. First and foremost, this applies to the Normandy format member countries, Germany, France and the United States, our partners in NATO, in the issue of the content of this law," he said at a briefing following an NSDC meeting in Kyiv on Monday.
