Cancellation of Putin’s decrees on issuing Russian passports to CADLO residents should become Russia’s responsibility



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According to Aleksey Reznikov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of Ukraine’s Temporarily Occupied Territories, the Joint Action Plan for Donbass stipulates that Russia will commit to canceling a series of decrees by Russian President Vladimir Putin, including a simplified procedure. issuance of Russian passports and recognition of LPNR plates.

The abolition of the decrees of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which are a direct interference in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, should be the responsibility of Russia.

As Alexei Reznikov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, this is foreseen in the “Joint Action Plan” for Donbass, developed by Kiev.

We believe that one of the obligations of the Russian Federation should be the cancellation of a whole list of decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, which regulate the simplified procedure for obtaining Russian passports for Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territories of Donbass, recognizing the license plates of the cars of non-existent quasi formations [“ЛДНР”] and so on, “Reznikov said.

The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group for the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, who presented the main theses of the plan the day before, spoke about Kiev’s proposal to cancel a series of Putin’s decisions that are a direct interference in CADLO’s life.

Putin in 2019 issued two decrees on a simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports: May 1 signed a decree on the introduction of a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of ORDLO; July 17 – decree on simplified obtaining Russian citizenship for all residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called Putin’s decision “legally void” and it does not change the membership of the inhabitants of the Russian-occupied Donbass territories to Ukrainian citizenship. Then glava Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin called the residents of ORDLO refrain from acquiring Russian citizenship.

By September 2020, according to Reznikov, Russia had issued 200,000 of its passports to residents of the occupied Donbass.

Russia began its armed aggression in eastern Ukraine in 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other.



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