The Verkhovna Rada must start its next session in February with passing as a whole the draft law introducing amendments to the Constitution with regard to Ukraine’s course toward integration with the EU and NATO, as well as passing a draft law on the state language in Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada chairman Andriy Parubiy has said.
“I think we should start our next session with making amendments to the Constitution on the issue involving [our accession to] the EU and NATO. I believe one of the first issues to be considered in February should be another historic decision—it is the law on the Ukrainian language, about the Ukrainian state language,” Parubiy said in his address to the parliament to sum up its results, a correspondent of the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
He said he hopes the parliament will be able to review all the revisions in February and complete the second reading of the language bill.
