Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev have discussed situation in Ukraine.
Press service of the Russian President has said this in a statement with the reference to their phone conversation, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
Nazarbayev said that President of the United States Donald Trump had suggested transfer of the Trilateral Contact Group's meetings from Minsk (the Republic of Belarus) to Astana (Kazakhstan).
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Security Council of the Russian Federation considers that the law On Specifics of the State Policy to Ensure State Sovereignty of Ukraine Over the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions adopted by the Verkhovna Rada will impact settlement of the conflict.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the bill No. 7163 On Specifics Of State Policy On Restoration Of State Sovereignty Of Ukraine Over Temporarily Occupied Territories Of Donetsk And Luhansk Regions.
The law will take effect on the day following its promulgation.
By adopting the bill, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the decision of President Petro Poroshenko (pursuant to the Constitution of Ukraine) to use the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military units to deter and counteract military aggression of the Russian Federation in Donbas to ensure state sovereignty over the occupied territories.
In compliance with the law, in compliance with the start of implementation of measures it envisions the anti-terrorist operation can be ceased in order to ensure national security and defense.
The law says that the fact of final withdrawal from and total absence of all Russian armed units in Donbas is designated by defense and interior affairs ministers through their joint recommendations to the President of Ukraine, who takes his decision only under such recommendations.
The preamble of the law call the Russian Federation an occupant state and defines the Russian Federation's administration and Russian state bodies as occupational.
The law determines the parts of Ukrainian territory controlled by the armed units of the Russian Federation and occupational administration as occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The borders and the list of such territories will be determined by the President of Ukraine following respective recommendations from the Ministry of Defense drafted on the basis of recommendations of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In compliance with the law, temporary occupation of Donbas by the Russian Federation is illegal despite its length and gives Russia no territorial rights.
According to the law, Ukraine is not responsible for illegal actions and decision of the Russian Federation and occupational administration in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas.
At the same time, responsibility for material and other losses caused to Ukraine is placed on the Russian Federation.
Pursuant to the law, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is urged to take necessity measures to establish an interagency steering body to draft a consolidated claim of Ukraine against the Russian Federation regarding the implementation of the international-legal responsibility for the military aggression against Ukraine.
President Petro Poroshenko calls reintegration of occupied territories through a peaceful and political-diplomatic way the major signal of the law on restoration of sovereignty over Donbas.
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