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| Yatsenyuk named five conditions for his "team" to continue working |
02.07.2016 Daily Highlights by the Digests & Analytics Ukraine
Topics from Media and Social Networks
- Prime Minister Yatsenyuk named five conditions for his "team" to continue working.
- Police killed the offending car’s passenger during a chase in Kyiv.
- According to Prosecutor General Shokin, former President Yanukovych will be extradited to Ukraine only after the war in Donbas is over.
Key Events in Ukraine
- Prime Minister Yatsenyuk in his regular TV address on Sunday admitted that the Government has made a lot of mistakes, but has implemented more reforms than everyone else taken together in the past year. He named the main principles subject to which the Government would continue to work: no political pressure, corruption and quotas in the Cabinet, transparent work of the heads of the executive and the MPs, Parliament’s responsibility and support for the decisions of the Government and, most importantly, observance of the principle of separation of powers.
- Attorney General Shokin believes that former President Yanukovych could be extradited from Russia to Ukraine after the end of the conflict in Donbas. In his interview to Inter TV channel, he said that he took his position by chance and he had brought his deputy Sakvarelidze to the GPO. According to Shokin, he has held the General Prosecutor’s position for only a year, and he hopes this year will be the last one. Shokin argues that no Western politicians exercised pressure on the President for his resignation.
- Acting Head of Mission of Ukraine to NATO Bozhok said that by May, Ukraine jointly with NATO will develop and approve the program of reform of its Armed Forces.
- Mejlis representative office in Kherson was damaged as a result of a grenade explosion.
Ukraine at War
- The situation in Donbas remains tense but stable, with militants shelling and attacking Ukrainian positions near Donetsk, Horlivka and Volnovakha. Ukrainian army has to return fire. Intelligence reports on the consolidation of the occupation forces in Horlivka with heavy machinery and artillery. According to official reports, one soldier was wounded. Three more were injured in a land mine explosion near Avdiyivka.
Ukraine and the World
- Dutch Foreign Ministry believes the idea of establishing an international tribunal to investigate the downing of Flight MH17 under the UN auspices to be a deadlock, and sees holding the tribunal in one of the countries included in the joint investigation team as the most realistic option.
- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) awaits the arrival in Europe in 2016 of at least one million more refugees, which is not less than in 2015. Rallies organized by PEGIDA party and extremist groups are held across Europe with the demands to tighten immigration legislation and the expulsion of refugees. In many countries, attacks on refugee camps and aid collection centers have been recorded.
- Turkish President Erdogan urged the United States to decide whether they would support Turkey or Syrian Kurds aiming at establishing an independent Kurdish state that would include part of the Turkish territory.
- The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on the preparations to introduce sanctions against North Korea, which conducted another nuclear test and launched a ballistic missile, which is a serious violation of the UN Charter.
The Trends
- The murder by police patrol of a passenger of the car that they pursued in Kyiv split the society into those who believe that the police acted correctly and that the "golden youth" behave arrogantly being aware of their impunity, and those who believe that the police exceeded their authority, and the murder was a misdemeanour in office. Recently published pictures show that the police fired not at the car wheels but at the windshield, and the MIA’s management is not in a hurry to publish the unedited video of the incident. If the video could prove that the police acted within the law, it would increase significantly its support by the society, which does not believe any statements of the authorities.
- Minister of Economic Development Abromavicius claimed that President Poroshenko’s friend and business partner Kononenko wanted to secure the Deputy Minister position for Naftogaz Executive Director Pasyshnyk, who is close to the parliamentary group Volya Narodu, which has recently voted together with the Petro Poroshenko Bloc in Parliament. Pasyshnyk admitted that he really wanted to get this post.
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