The leader of the People’s Front party, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, calls on the people’s deputies of Ukraine to vote on January 16 in support of bill No. 7163 on ensuring Ukraine’s state sovereignty in the temporarily occupied territory of Donbas.
“Tomorrow the people’s deputies are to adopt bill No. 7163 on the reintegration of the occupied territories … Such a law is necessary for the defense of the country, the expansion of international sanctions against the Kremlin, for the peace process and compensation for losses for armed aggression and occupation,” Yatsenyuk wrote on Facebook on January 15 evening.
He stressed that voting for this bill is “a fundamental test of loyalty to national interests.” “I expect that tomorrow all Ukrainian politicians will put the truth and Ukraine higher than their own ambitions, trivial misunderstandings or the interests of sponsors,” the politician said.
According to him, by adopting this bill, the parliament will “fix legal assessments”: “Russia is an aggressor. The fighting in Donbas is not an internal conflict, but a defensive war with Russia. Crimea and Donbas are occupied by Russians.” “Legislative recognition of these facts will extend to the Kremlin the international legal obligations of the invader,” Yatsenyuk said.
As reported, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko insists on the earliest possible adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of bill No. 7163. The factions of the Radical Party and the People’s Front in the parliament intend to support it at the second reading and in general, the Opposition Bloc faction opposes its adoption.
