A. Yatsenyuk: We must do everything to ensure that persons who have illegally captured buildings, released them without force operations

posted 11 April 2014 13:26

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk opposes force script and calls on people who locate in illegally captured buildings to leave them and lay down their arms. He told this to journalists in Donetsk on Friday, April 11, by the results of the meeting with heads of Regional State Administrations, heads of cities, heads of defense and law enforcement agencies and industry representatives of eastern regions.

"I will say my own position - I'm against any force scenarios, and therefore I call on people to hand over the weapon and leave illegally captured buildings," the Prime Minister said.

"We must do everything to ensure that persons, who have captured facilities and locate there with weapons, leave buildings without force operation. And they have such possibilities today," he said.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk noted that the headquarters constantly operates in Donetsk and the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitaly Yarema stays in the city.

The Prime Minister also said that the aim of today's meeting with regional heads of RSAs, heads of cities, heads of defense and law enforcement agencies and industry representatives of eastern regions is to answer to the request of people who want to make that the regions have more powers."

"This task we are implementing within the constitutional reform - the liquidation of regional state administrations, transfer of all their powers to the executive committees elected in a territory," he said.

He believes that the new text of the Constitution should appear before the presidential election, "so that each next following president then will not rewrite the Constitution on his own mind."

"The situation is difficult, but despite different views on different approaches, we’ve agreed. All work to ensure that Ukraine will be united, unitary and successful state where residents of each region have protected national and cultural rights and have an impact on the central and local authorities," Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.