Poroshenko plans to Resolve Ukraine’s crisis in three months – Reports
MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko intends to tackle the Ukrainian crisis within the next three months, Kommersant newspaper reported Friday citing sources close to Poroshenko.
Right after the presentation of his reform plan, the president will make his first trip. The destination has already been made public Donbas, Kommersant said.
Poroshenko is expected to present a peace plan to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, as well as offer broad amnesty during his inauguration on June 7.
The president-elect earlier stated that he was also planning to conduct decentralization of power. He specified that he was currently in talks with the European Union, Canada and the United States on the elaboration of the roadmap.
Ukraines former First Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chaly told the newspaper that the plan would include three major steps a peaceful way to reach accord within the country, agenda for an international dialogue in the Geneva or other format, and concrete steps of the bilateral agenda for negotiations with Russia.
Chaly specified that Poroshenko was planning to seek compromise between the US and Russia in a political framework and between Brussels and Moscow in an economic one.
Only when all these three components are taken into account it will be possible to reach de-escalation and settle the situation, the former diplomat added.
Snap presidential elections in Ukraine were held on May 25 amid a deep political and economic crisis and a large-scale military operation against independence supporters in the east of the country launched mid-April by the authorities in Kyiv.
According to a RIA Novosti source in Kyiv, Poroshenko ordered the military to purge the turbulent southeastern Ukraine of resistance forces before his inauguration.