Tuesday 24 June 2014

Putin wants to repeal consent to the use of troops in Ukraine

Peskov reported that Putin has already sent a request to at the hands of the president of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko. Deputy Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council, Andrei Klimov announced that the Board will consider a proposal from the President tomorrow at a plenary session.

March 1, the Federation Council authorized Putin to use the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. Such authorization requested the President on the grounds of the need to normalize socio-political situation in the country.

"In view of the extraordinary situation arising in Ukraine, threatening the lives of citizens of the Russian Federation, our compatriots, the composition of the contingent of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, stationed in accordance with the international system on the territory of Ukraine (Crimea), on the basis of the g section 1 article 102 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation set before the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation a request for the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine for the normalization of socio-political situation in the country "- then Putin wrote in his application.

Secretary of State in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin said then that the granting of consent to the use of Russian troops in Ukraine does not necessarily mean that it will happen in the near future. "The president has a free hand, if the situation will continue to deteriorate" - he said.

On Monday, in the presence of messenger OSCE Heidi Tagliavini and Russian Ambassador Mikhail Zurabov in Kiev, Donetsk held a meeting a representative of the Ukrainian authorities, the country's former president Leonid Kuchma with representatives of the two breakaway regions in the east of Ukraine - the so-called. Donetsk's Republic of China (DRL) and Lugano Republic of China (LRL). After the meeting it was announced that the separatist leaders agreed to a ceasefire in fighting with government forces on June 27.

The withdrawal of the resolution of the Federation Council on the use of troops in the Ukraine to Russia has repeatedly urged the leaders of Western countries. Putin's Kremlin announced the decision in this case just before the departure of President to Austria, where he will confer with the leaders of this country - President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Werner Faymann, and also meet with the rotating chairman of the OSCE, the president of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter.

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