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“This is an important step in Ukraine’s reform process.  I hope it can be adopted by Parliament soon. It is the result of the good co-operation between Ukraine and the Council of Europe and its three representatives in the Constitutional Commission of Ukraine”, he said, according to the Council of Europe’s press service.

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