UKRAINE: PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA ANNOUNCES CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICIAL REFORMS IN TELEVISION BROADCAST TO GIVE MORE POWER TO PARLIAMENT

Record ID: 640560

  • Title: UKRAINE: PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA ANNOUNCES CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICIAL REFORMS IN TELEVISION BROADCAST TO GIVE MORE POWER TO PARLIAMENT
  • Date: 24th August 2002
  • Summary: (U5) KIEV, UKRAINE (AUGUST 25, 2002) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PRESIDENT KUCHMA AND GENERALS REVIEWING INDEPENDENCE PARADE (3 SHOTS) VARIOUS OF TROOPS IN INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE (3 SHOTS) VARIOUS OF SAILORS IN PARADE (3 SHOTS) VARIOUS, PRESIDENT KUCHMA WATCHING PARADE (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS, OF MILITARY BAND PLAYING AND MARCHING (2 SHOTS) SMV VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO AND PETRO POROSHENKO WATCHING PARADE WIDE OF TROOPS DRILLING WITH GUNS SMV GENERAL TALKING TO PRESIDENT KUCHMA WIDE OF PRESIDENT AND OFFICIALS WATCHING PARADE
  • Embargoed: 8th September 2002 13:00
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  • Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA4BDSO4WB71RA2TX312I31QM4I
  • Story Text: The Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma has announced he is ready to implement political reforms to the constitution, giving more power to Parliament.
    Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma made a television address to the nation on Saturday (August 24) in which he offered to reform the political system of the country and transfer to a parliamentary-presidential form of power. The address was made on the day Ukraine celebrated its independence from Russia.
    " There's no need for Ukraine to "invent a wheel", Kuchma said on Ukrainian National Television.
    " Such mechanisms already exist. They include a coalition government based on parliamentary majority. I have ordered to establish a working group to develop a political reform in Ukraine and I called on all political forces, including the opposition, to join the process. We need to start the political reform now ", Kuchma said.
    Kuchma plans to address the Supreme Rada, or Parliament, to create a parliamentary majority that would eventually form a government.
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