KIEV (Sputnik) – A Ukrainian lawmaker said earlier that the Verkhovna Rada’s (Ukrainian parliament) foreign affairs committee upheld a resolution on terminating relations with Russia. A group of lawmakers has registered a draft resolution with in the parliament earlier.
"Rada will not support this bill. Let’s not even discuss this," Poroshenko told members of the Ukrainian diaspora in Washington, as quoted by the Ukrinform news service.
He noted that the draft law was "several lawmakers’ initiative."
"Our peace plan is implementing the Minsk agreements," Poroshenko stressed.
Kiev launched a military operation against independence-seeking militias in southeastern Ukraine in April 2014. The confrontation has claimed more than 9,000 lives, according to UN estimates.
In February 2015, Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine worked out the second Minsk ceasefire agreement to settle the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
A pro-European Radical Party’s 2015 proposal to temporarily cut diplomatic ties with Russia was dismissed by the Ukrainian foreign minister behind fears that the move would disrupt negotiations and jeopardize the implementation of the Minsk agreement.
