KYIV. Feb 9 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday may debate a draft decree on an inquiry made by the Ukrainian parliament to the U.S. Congress on speeding up the provision to Ukraine of full-fledged military assistance and the status of a special ally of the U.S.
This issue is on the tentative agenda, which will be approved by the council of the heads of the Verkhovna Rada factions of groups on Monday.
Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the Batkivschyna faction of the Ukrainian parliament, has suggested forming a high-level group composed of representatives of the president, the Cabinet of Ministers and Verkhovna Rada deputies and sending it to the U.S. for negotiations on the supply of high-precision weapons to Ukraine.
"We need to urgently send to the U.S. a high-level group composed of representatives of the Ukrainian president, parliament and government, who will not just register the U.S. statement that they are ready to supply high-precision weapons to Ukraine, but achieve a result in negotiations will all political circles on this matter," Tymoshenko said at a meeting of the conciliatory council made up of the heads of the factions and groups on Monday.
Tymoshenko said the Verkhovna Rada should adopt a request to all U.S. political circles to begin supplying such high-precision weapons to Ukraine.
Tymoshenko said the Justice Ministry and the Ukrainian Security Service should go to the International Criminal Court in The Hague with all materials of the Prosecutor General's Office and "begin the process of prosecuting those who are responsible for today's aggression against Ukraine."
Among the issues that may be included in the agenda is the first reading of the bill amending the law On the Organization of Defense Planning (new edition). A draft decree on changes to the administrative-territorial division of the Luhansk region (the changes and the establishment of the new borders of the Popasna and Slavyanoserbsk regions) may be debated on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Verkhovna Rada will hold the first reading of Bill №1768 On Changes to the Law On Television and Radio Broadcasting (on the participation by foreign persons in television and radio organizations), which prohibits residents of aggressor states or occupant states from holding stakes in the charter capital of domestic media companies for the purpose of protecting the information sovereignty of Ukraine.