KYIV. Feb 13 (Interfax) - Certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions will exercise a special self-government regime consistent with the relevant law passed by the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.
"Any further discussions of a special regime for Donbas will be held and [the regime] will be enforced in line with the law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada," he said at the Ukrainian parliament on Friday.
The minister added that the de-centralization of power in Ukraine, including Donbas, would be part of the constitution reform and no more than that.
"We did not make any promises in any form, either legally binding or political, precisely in this context [de-centralization]," Klimkin stated.
In turn, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Hroysman said that federalization of Ukraine was out of the question.
"Federalization is out of the question. Ukraine is a unitary state," Hroysman told Latvian Saeima Speaker Inara Murniece in Kyiv on Friday.
He pointed out that local elections in Donbas must be held according to Ukrainian law, Hroysman's press secretary Dmytro Stolyarchuk told Interfax.