"Ukrainian government remains committed to the idea of decentralization of power and is ready to ensure a special status for Russian and languages of national minorities", Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said.
“Our position is unchanged: we believe that the power needs to be decentralized… The central authorities should have a government representative office, which will conduct the so-called general supervision over the observance of laws in the relevant territory,” he said during the second all-Ukrainian roundtable of national unity in Kharkiv on Saturday.
As regards the status of the Russian language and the languages of national minorities, the prime minister said: “Within the framework of the constitutional amendments, we believe that we are able to provide the special status for the Russian language and the languages of national minorities, and to allow each region to develop independently within a single state policy.”
Yatsenyuk also pointed to the need to continue the political dialogue to address the situation in the country.
At the same time, he stressed that they won’t hold negotiations with terrorists.
The prime minister assured that those who have not committed serious crimes, but have weapons can hand them over, and “we will pass a [relevant] law and amnesty them.”
