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MAKAROVE, Kyiv Oblast – National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov has said that the contracts on electric power supplies to Crimean peninsula under jurisdiction of the Cabinet of Ministers.

“Cabinet of Ministers’ terms of reference cover this issue [electricity supplies to Crimea]. And if the Cabinet of Ministers needs to decide on the supplies, then I don’t see any problem with this [NSDC meeting],” Turchynov said being asked by Interfax-Ukraine to name the day when Crimea’s electricity supplies would be discussed by the council.

Turchynov speaks to the press during his visit of Aerotechnica-MLT Scientific-Production Enterprise in Makarove village of Kyiv region to see enterprise’s modernized technologies of manufacturing new anti-air defense forces.