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Donetsk and Lugansk have offered Ukrana a new plan for settlement in Donbass. Photo “Country”
Yesterday Ukraine agreed to present its version of the “road map” on the Minsk agreements for consideration by the Trilateral Contact Group.
This is an action plan and timetable for the implementation of the political provisions of Minsk-2. The Russian side spoke yesterday about such intentions of Kiev. However, this information has not yet been refuted in Ukraine. So for the moment it can be considered a fact.
Ukraine’s promise was kept for a reason.
At a meeting two weeks ago, the “republics” presented their draft of such a “roadmap” to the TCG, proposing, after agreement, to approve it at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada. In response, today Leonid Kravchuk promised to present a similar document in a week, on all the same topics.
At the disposal of the “Strana” was a project of representatives of CADLO, which Ukraine undertook to study.
ORDLO – to the constitution. But not forever
The draft “roadmap” of “DPR / LPR” contains 15 points.
1. Coordination of new improved ceasefire measures (typically the parties only point to Ukraine and CADLO. Russia is not there, which they will probably try to change in the Kiev version of the document)
The date is not specified, it will be necessary to enter it.
2. Within three days after the approval of this plan in the Verkhovna Rada and its entry into force, the parties provide lists for the exchange of prisoners in four categories: “established – agree to exchange”, “agree to exchange – ready to exchange” , “installed – do not agree to the exchange” and “not installed”.
After that, within 15 days, you need to trade all those who agree and are ready to trade and start preparing the first category for launch.
3. Ten days after the entry into force of the Rada decision, the parties approve a demining plan at 19 sites and start working on a demining plan along the entire line of contact.
Four. At the same time, the withdrawal of troops began in the sectors: Slavyanoserbsk, Petrovka, Nizhneteploe, Grigorovka, and work began to create a plan for the general withdrawal of troops.
5. Within 30 days of the entry into force of the Rada decision, Zelensky is presenting a bill “On Amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine (in terms of decentralization of power)”. It contains the following transitory provisions:
– Within Ukraine, a separate district from the Donetsk region and a separate district from the Lugansk region are formed. They operate until 2050. The peculiarities of their self-government and the powers of all authorities are dictated by a separate law of Ukraine.
– In addition, this article of the Constitution, as well as the law that complements it, cannot be modified without the consent of the residents of certain regions, which is expressed in a referendum. It is true that such a referendum cannot be held before 2045 or after 2049.
6. Along with the draft constitutional law, amendments are being made to the law on the special status of certain districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which must be previously approved by the TCG.
Let’s dwell on the essence of this separate bill.
How the “Lao People’s Democratic Republic” wants to rewrite the law on special status
Appendix 2 of the “Roadmap” indicates what should be included in the special status bill. Essentially a new document is proposed, which is very different from the one we have today.
There the idea is repeated that any change in ORDLO’s status can occur only after a referendum, in favor of which at least 20% of the region’s residents who have lived in it during the last five years have supported.
It is also said that the deployment of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in certain territories is only allowed with the consent of the regional councils of Donetsk and Lugansk. The same is said of mass actions: people from the rest of Ukraine or foreigners cannot gather more than a hundred people without special permission from the authorities.
Administratively, ORDLO is divided into town councils, rural, district and municipal. They are chosen by the population. And also to the Donetsk and Lugansk district councils, which are elected by the local councils of the lower level. Mayors and district heads are elected according to the same principle: the population elects everyone except the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk district councils, who are elected by the deputies.
It is stated that the local executive branch acts in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, which concern the district heads and, in the future, the prefects.
The main centers of local government, the Donetsk and Lugansk district councils, operate in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, which relate to local self-government, but have additional powers:
- solve problems of the administrative-territorial structure within CADLO
- referendums and local elections
- management of the property of the territorial communities, land, subsoil, water and other natural resources of the territories
- formation of local budgets in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, which will detail the transfer of taxes and fees specifically for CADLO
- cross-border economic cooperation with the Russian Federation, taking into account the general customs and foreign exchange regulations of Ukraine
- determination of official languages, taking into account the state language status of Ukraine
- define the powers of the people’s militia, taking into account the law that will delimit the functions of New Mexico with the national police of Ukraine
- coordination of the appointment of chief prosecutors and court
- determination of holidays and memorable dates
That is, it is essentially the same special status law that it is now. Just written in more detail and filled with references to Ukrainian law. Key things remain: the influence of ORDLO in the courts, the prosecution, the police, the determination of the status of the Russian language and the special economic status, including in relations with the Russian Federation.
Elections, people’s militia, border
But let’s go beyond the “roadmap” points.
7. The seventh point complements the story with the special status of Donbass with new bills that Zelensky must present: on the delimitation of taxes and fees, property, powers between the Natsipolitsia and the People’s Militia. And also about the amnesty and non-discrimination of the people who participated in the events in Donbass.
Another bill refers to the holding of early elections in ORDLO. And for a snack: the cancellation or amendment of three scandalous laws of Ukraine: on education, on the language of the state and on the reintegration of Donbass.
Before being submitted to the Rada, these documents must be coordinated with representatives of individual regions (ie within the framework of the TCG).
8. It is proposed to make all these laws (except the constitutional one) temporarily valid from the date of publication. And they will receive permanent effect after the OSCE recognizes the elections in ORDLO as valid.
9. And only after the introduction of all these laws in the Rada, within 10 days, a new exchange of prisoners takes place, the people indicated above as “established, I agree to exchange”. And they also begin the general demining, the complete withdrawal of troops and the drafting of a plan to restore the work of the banks and the Pension Fund in Donetsk and Lugansk.
10… Within three months after the entry into force of these laws, detachments of the ORDLO people’s militia are formed and the withdrawal of foreign armed formations from the territory of Ukraine and the disarmament of illegal groups under the auspices of the OSCE.
eleven. The elections to the territorial communities of ORDLO are held no later than five months after the approval of the laws specified in paragraphs 6 and 7.
12. The deputies of the Donetsk and Luhansk regional councils are elected no later than 30 days after the elections in the territorial communities. During all this time, the authorities of the “DPR” and “LPR” have been working so as not to disturb the maintenance of the vital activity of the territories. The “republics” are dissolved after the election of the Donetsk and Lugansk district councils.
13. After the elections, two months are allotted for the part of the border with Russia to be transferred to Ukraine. It is carried out by elected local authorities together with representatives of the Russian Federation.
14. Two months after the transfer of the border, Ukraine must lift the economic blockade and return state institutions to CADLO’s territory. At the same time, Donetsk and Lugansk are withdrawing their administrations from previously “nationalized” companies (ie, returning them to their former owners).
fifteen. Three months after the approval of the laws on Donbass, the Cabinet of Ministers must, in agreement with CADLO, adopt a program for the restoration of the region. It enters into force on the day of appointment of the executive branch in certain regions.
Also in the “DPR / LPR” they wrote a draft resolution of the Rada, which legalizes this plan and authorizes the Trilateral Contact Group to discuss it.
Great concessions. What do these sentences mean
In general, the representatives of the separatists in Minsk proposed a new version of the Minsk agreements. There were only 13 points on them. In the new document, two more.
At the same time, the main provisions of Minsk-2 are preserved in the Donetsk and Luhansk proposals. And even more detailed than before.
Outwardly, the document seems more compromised than “Minsk” itself. There are constant appeals to the laws of Ukraine. In fact, it is proposed to change or adopt from scratch several bills that will regulate relations between Donbass and the rest of Ukraine. And again – “according to ORDLO”.
The roadmap does not clearly indicate when the amendments to the constitution should start to work. And when the Rada should accept them. At the same time, it was clearly stated in Minsk-2 that the border is finally transferred after the Ukrainian constitution changes (that is, the special status becomes permanent). The new version does not have this link.
And the special status is not permanent, but is designed for 30 years. These are two main “relaxation” of the document compared to Minsk-2.
The rest corresponds more or less to what is established in the Minsk agreements.
There are also several major accents there. Thus, for example, it is clearly indicated that the companies will be returned to the Ukrainian owners and the armed formations that are outside the framework of the Ukrainian legislation will be withdrawn or disarmed (in the latter case, apparently, we are talking about the disarmament of the “corps of army “of the” “DPR / LPR” (although it is possible that some of them, according to the logic of the document, become “popular militias” and are legalized in the Ukrainian legal sphere).
That is, Moscow and the “DPR / LPR” made certain concessions to Kiev that, in theory, should prompt the Ukrainian authorities to make similar commitments.
Whether this will be successful will be seen in a week, when Kravchuk presents or not his proposals to the separatists’ plan.
Note that so far nothing indicates this. In itself, the fact that the Ukrainian side does not comment on the preparation of the roadmaps speaks volumes.
And in general, the current official position of the Ukrainian authorities fundamentally contradicts everything proposed in the “DPR / LPR” on many points, two of which are key: refusal to amend the Constitution and refusal to hold elections until the transfer of the Constitution. border control.
Therefore, it remains only to wait for what the Ukrainian side will write on its “roadmap” and whether it will appear.
