DPR and LPR MPs and public activists will hold the hearing in the issue of the Minsk Agreement implementation

Donetsk, June 30, the Donetsk News Agency

For the e first time in the history of Donbass hearing in the issues  of the Minsk Agreement implementation with the participation of DPR and LPR MPs and public activists will be held in Donetsk on Thursday, July 2, the press-services of the People’s Councils of both Republics reported.

The delegation from Lugansk will be headed by Speaker of the People’s Council of the LPR Aleksey Karyakin, and the delegation of the Donetsk lawmakers – by Chairman of the DPR parliament Andrey Purgin.

It is expected that the main issue at the hearing will be the violation by Kiev of the provisions of the Set of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreement, signed of February 12, 2015. Particularly, as the DNA learnt, the unwillingness of Ukrainian authorities to enact the Law on the Special Status of Donbass, start negotiations with the DPR and LPR representatives in regard to local elections, terminate the military operation in the region, declare clemency of the conflict participants and carry out the exchange of POW, as well as cease social and economic blockade of the South-East of the country.

Besides, this week President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is expected to forward to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) the amendments to the Constitution, which have not been agreed upon by the DPR and LPR. Donetsk has already called it the direct violation of the Minsk Agreement. As the leader of the DPR delegation at the peace talks Denis Pushilin had remarked, any amendments to the governing law should be agreed upon with the representatives of Donbass. According to the Minsk Memorandum of September 19, 2014, only Heads of the DPR Aleksandr Zakharchenko and LPR Igor Plotnitskiy can be considered as such.

On the same day a press-conference of Purgin and Karyakin will be held in regard to the results of the hearing, which is to start at 13:00. As sources in the parliamentary delegations of both Republics told the DNA, the politicians are going to make an important announcement.