KIEV, April 18. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian parliament-appointed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said a draft law on amnesty for protesters in eastern Ukraine is ready.
“The cabinet has prepared a draft law on amnesty,” he told the Verkhovna Rada on Friday. “If the whole parliament expresses its will, the law will be registered, and let us vote for it,” Yatsenyuk said.
Batkivshchyna's leader in the parliament Sergei Sobolev said on Thursday the party's members in the parliament were ready to vote for amnesty for all participants in protests in the east of the country who opposed the Kiev authorities.
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