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Tuesday, 15 October 2019, 17:03
03.10.2019
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has approved at second reading and as a whole a law introducing amendments to the parliament's rules of procedure regarding the planning and systematic legislative activities of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
An official visit by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to Estonia previously scheduled for October will not take place until November.
Former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksandr Danylyuk has said that the last straw that led to his resignation as NSDC secretary was the situation with PrivatBank and the influence of Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Bohdan, a former attorney for Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, on President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has tabled in the Verkhovna Rada a motion for the appointment of new members of the Central Election Commission (CEC), European Solidarity MP Oleksiy Honcharenko has reported on his Facebook page.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine Volodymyr Borodiansky held a meeting with Minister of Culture of the Republic of Belarus Yuri Bondar in Kyiv today.
The EU has published rules for applying for Schengen visas for residents of non-government controlled areas of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as guidance on how to handle visa applications from Russian passport holders who reside in these territories and received Russian documents after the Russian presidential decree of April 24, according to the website of the European Commission.
The Council of Europe is concerned about legislative proposals for judicial reform in Ukraine that could limit the independence of the judiciary.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Oleksiy Danilov as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).
The bill No.2143-3 "On Kyiv City - the Capital of Ukraine" has passed the first reading in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (1998-2000) Steven Pifer drew attention to the unacceptability of any influence of businessman Ihor Kolomoisky on decisions of the current state leadership of Ukraine.
The Cabinet of Ministers has appointed acting heads of the State Film Agency and the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor).
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has confirmed that a meeting in the "Normandy format" will be held in Paris.
The two-day Second Forum of the Regions of Ukraine and Belarus has begun in Zhytomyr city today, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.