Ukraine’s rebels say unitary state, single language “unacceptable”

(Interfax – April 6, 2015)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s statements on maintaining the unitary system of state governance and the Ukrainian language remaining the only state language in the country are unacceptable and contradict the Minsk Agreements, Andriy Purhin (Andrey Purgin), the speaker of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) people’s council, has said, as reported by privately-owned Russian news agency Interfax on 6 April.

“These are absolutely unacceptable things. Everything that they are saying and doing does not comply with the Minsk Agreements, which were so hard to achieve during the meeting of the ‘Normandy Four’ [Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany],” he said.

Purhin said that no representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics were present at the session of the constitutional commission in Kiev.

“We have not received invitations and none of our representatives are there,” he said.