Opening the plenary meeting on Tuesday, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov claimed that “according to the Constitution of Ukraine and Ukrainian legislation, only the Verkhovna Rada can make decisions, and if necessary, address other countries regarding bringing foreign troops.”
“This is exclusively the Parliament’s competence,” he said. “No country can hide behind statement of a citizen or even of an ex-president.”
People’s deputies voted for the respective Statement of the Parliament. Moreover, Oleksandr Turchynov claimed that the Prosecutor General’s Office is conducting an investigation regarding mass killings in Ukraine. “One of the main persons involved in these cases is former president V.Yanukovych,” he said, adding that the Prosecutor General’s Office will address the Russian Federation, where V.Yanukovych is now, with a demand of his immediate extradition to our country “where he will be granted a fair and unprejudiced trial.”
“For a quick relief of pressure in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Russian Federation has to immediately withdraw its troops to their places of dislocation and stop intervening into internal affairs of our country,” stressed the Chairman of the Parliament. According to him, extradition of V.Yanukovych would accelerate normalization of bilateral relations of our countries.”