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President urges to stir up work on a new Constitution

President urges to stir up work on a new Constitution
President Viktor Yushchenko urged leaders of parliamentary factions to stir up work on the concept of the new edition of the Constitution. President's press office reports. 

According to him the concept prepared by the working group of National Constitutional Council is worth to be discussed at a meeting of the Council already in the third quarter of April. After that the changes to the Constitution are to be presented in a form of draft law with its inspection by the Verkhovna Rada and by the Constitutional Court so that after that it could be grought out for a national referendum.

President Yushchenko also expressed opinion that separate parliamentary working group on the subject would be irrelevant as the idea of preparing modifications to the Constitution is to involve in the process as many different organizations and specialists as possible, not only the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.