Klimkin asks parliament to stop misusing «Donbas’ special status» term

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin insists that Ukrainian lawmakers stop speculating about terminology related to "special status of Donbas."

"There is no special status. There is a law on the peculiarities of local self-government [in Donbas], which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada. The law which respective amendments to the Constitution refer to is the only document that stipulates special aspects of local self-government. That’s why, I urge [you] to stop speculating about this terminology," Klimkin said in parliament in Kyiv on Wednesday when asked whether the "Normandy Four" leaders agreed in Paris on October 2 that Donbas' special 'self-rule' status should be sealed in the Ukrainian Constitution.