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KHARKIV – Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has said that in the near future the National Security and Defense Council will consider a bill on the reintegration of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, that are temporarily uncontrolled by the country’s authorities, for further consideration to the Verkhovna Rada.

“The law is ready. Security experts and legal experts are now working out some of its details, and in the near future, you know, that the president has already returned from a very important overseas trip, we will have an NSDC meeting, and after approval of this law by the NSDC, it will be sent to the Verkhovna Rada by the president,” he told journalists in Kharkiv on june 23, answering the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine agency’s question.