"I am ready to launch a referendum on state structure, if you [constitutional commission] would consider it necessary," Poroshenko said during the commission's first session.
The newly established constitutional commission of Ukraine gathered for its first session on Monday, April 6, to develop a project for the decentralization of powers in Ukraine.
“I am welcoming specialists, legal experts, who represent juridical and science institutions of different regions, which is very important. I am welcoming envoys from Donbass, Donetsk, representatives of Kharkiv, Lviv, Kiev, Mariupol, Odessa. I think it is very important that opinions of all regions are represented very well in our constitutional commission,” Poroshenko added.
According to the president, around 90 percent of Ukrainians support the "unity of the country.
The agreement stipulated the decentralization of power, and constitutional reforms in the country, among other points.
The leaders of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, which refused to recognize legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government after a coup, have repeatedly urged Kiev to grant them more autonomy.
