Interfax: DPR ready for working groups’ activity – Purgin

MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax) – The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) is ready to participate in the activity of joint working groups, which will address concrete areas of the peace process in southeastern Ukraine.

“We have done more than enough to prepare operations of the joint working groups. We are fully prepared, for instance, we have legal teams studying nuances of Ukrainian legislation. As to the degree of Ukraine’s preparedness, we can only guess but it is definitely less than ours. Most probably, they still have a long way to go,” DPR People’s Council Speaker Andrei Purgin told Interfax on Wednesday.

The joint working groups will help systematize Ukrainian laws, he added.

“Ukraine has adopted plenty of bylaws, for instance, to support the ATO operation, and these bylaws contradict one another because Ukraine loves to adopt new bylaws and is unwilling to repeal the old ones. In short, they need to be organized and harmonized with legal norms,” Purgin said.