STRASBOURG (Sputnik) — The decentralization of power in Ukraine is aimed at providing wider autonomy to the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. The measure was stipulated in the Minsk agreements on Ukraine's reconciliation between by Kiev and Donbass representatives in February. Under the agreement, reforms to the Ukrainian Constitution are to be passed before the end of 2015.
The Assembly calls on "the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to promptly adopt the constitutional amendments on the decentralisation and judiciary chapters."
PACE has urged Ukrainian authorities "to continue the judicial and anticorruption reforms and to effectively fight the endemic corruption in the country."
The resolution states that Ukraine must investigate reports and allegations of human rights abuses and humanitarian law violations by military troops "under the command of the Ukrainian authorities."
