The Law will govern in Ukraine, and all citizens shall protect this Law. This was announced by Acting President of Ukraine, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov when opening Parliament’s plenary meeting on Friday.
Oleksandr Turchynov claimed that after Russia failed to destabilize situation in eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, “failed to start a fire of separatism”, they are trying to destabilize situation in the centre, “in the heart of Ukraine – Kyiv”. “This task the leadership of the Russian Federation assigns to its special services”, he stressed. “Yesterday, consciously or unconsciously, some citizens tried to create provocations near the Verkhovna Rada”.
“The Parliament is the basis for legal Ukrainian government without which the government can not exist. Whether you like the Parliament or not, there exists no other Parliament in Ukraine”, claimed Oleksandr Turchynov. “There is only one way for those who want to change it – to vote at elections. To elect deputies they trust at fair, transparent and democratic elections. There is no other way; there is no way of power pressure or provocations. This way leads to a catastrophe of the country; this is a way against the state, a way towards supporting the aggressor who is concentrating its Armed Forces at our borders.”
The Chairman of the Parliament thanked “all patriots and deputies who yesterday did not allow any provocations against the Verkhovna Rada, all patriots who today came to the Parliament to protect the Verkhovna Rada from provocateurs and attempts to destabilize the situation, bring discouragement and anarchy”.
“The Maidan stood for everyone to be equal before the Law and the Constitution. Thus, either we will protect the law and will manage to restore democratic, European and powerful state on this basis, or we will violate the law and ruin our state”, claimed Oleksandr Turchynov.
“Everyone is equal before the law, and for its violation everyone should carry responsibility without any limits, exceptions, political or corporate dividends”, he claimed. The Law will govern in Ukraine, and all citizens shall protect this Law.
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