19.06.2014 - 10:19 [ Petro Poroshenko, Präsident der Ukraine ]

President approved amendments to the laws of Ukraine on struggle against terrorism

Amendments proposed in the given Law ensure the following:

– holding within the framework of the counterterrorist operation of a complex of coordinated special measures aimed at prevention, alteration of the scale of the CTO, minimization of its consequences and ensuring the security of population;

– significant broadening of powers for subjects directly involved in the struggle against terrorism;

– securing the rights of special units directly involved in the struggle against terrorism;

– change in the order of forming the Interagency Coordinating Commission of the Counterterrorist Center under the Security Service of Ukraine composed, in addition to other officials, of any officials specified by the President of Ukraine.