Poroshenko earlier on Monday proposed a special
self-rule status for the independence-seeking Donetsk and Luhansk regions and
the free use of the Russian language there
MOSCOW,
September 15. /ITAR-TASS/. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)
is waiting for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s law on the status of
Donbass, a DPR senior official said on Monday.
“We are waiting for the draft law and will study it. We
hope for a peaceful settlement,” Andrei Purgin, who is DPR First Deputy Prime
Minister, said.
Poroshenko earlier on Monday proposed a special
self-rule status for the independence-seeking Donetsk and Luhansk regions and
the free use of the Russian language there.
The draft law he submitted to the parliament calls for
local elections in the region, commonly known as Donbass, on November 9, 2014.
It guarantees the use of the Russian or any other
language “in public and private life, the study and support of the Russian or
any other language, its free development and equal status”, the newspaper
Ukrainska Pravda quoted the draft law as saying.
The special status will be granted for a limited period
of three years, during which time Kiev is hoping to carry out its
decentralisation plans and adopt appropriate amendments to the constitution.
Poroshenko said a special status for certain parts of
the Donetsk and Luhansk regions was a key element of his peace plan.
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“De facto they are elements of decentralisation with
full and unconditional respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and
independence of our state,” Poroshenko said, adding that the state would retain
all principal attributes of power such as foreign policy and law.
Kiev will also guarantee that the persons who
participated in the fighting in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions would not be
prosecuted.
Source: ITAR-TASS 15-09-2014
