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An ad hoc group on the establishment of the Constitutional Assembly will recommend putting the amendments to the fundamental law to the national referendum, Ukraine's first president Leonid Kravchuk has said.

"We will propose approving constitutional amendments, and then putting the new text of these changes and amendments to the national referendum," Kravchuk said in the "Shuster Live" program aired on Friday.

At the same time, Kravchuk admitted that they could have problems with holding the national referendum.

"I know that putting the text (of changes and amendments to the Constitution) to a referendum is a complex issue, we still need to work out its mechanism, agree it with the Verkhovna Rada and with the president," he said.

As reported, Ukraine’s incumbent President Viktor Yanukovych signed February 21, 2011, a decree on support for an initiative by the first president of Ukraine (1991-1994), Leonid Kravchuk to create a Constitutional Assembly to amend the main law.

The Constitutional Assembly is to draft new wording of the Constitution of Ukraine.