DPR, LPR committed to introduce external management in businesses operating within Ukrainian jurisdiction
MOSCOW. Feb 28 (Interfax) - Donetsk and Luhansk see no reasons to refrain from introducing external management in the businesses failing to register in the self-proclaimed republics of Donbas, considering Kyiv's statements on possible adoption of rules governing goods traffic between Donbas and Ukraine as an attempt at manipulation.
"What stopped Kyiv from ceasing the transport blockade yesterday, the day before yesterday or any other day? That has not been done and there are still no preconditions for that. Statements of this kind are more likely another attempt at manipulation," the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic's (LPR) chief negotiator at the Minsk talks, Vladislav Deinego, told Interfax in a comment about the plans of the Ukrainian government to adopt on March 1 regulations on export and import of goods to/from territories not controlled by Kyiv in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Deinego called not to consider statements by Donetsk and Luhansk about introducing external management in the businesses with Ukrainian jurisdiction as an ultimatum.
"This is no ultimatum but a necessary measure aimed at overcoming the prevailing situation," Deinego said.
A source in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Council of Ministers, in turn, told Interfax that businesses that have failed to get duly registered with the republic's authorities will not avoid being subject to external management.
"The law states clearly that the state will impose external management on those firms failing to obtain registration by March 1. The law will be applied," the source said.
The source also revealed that Kyiv still carries on with the transport blockade of Donbas. "No change can be seen in Kyiv's actions. The blockade remains as it was," he said.