Novhorodske, Donbas to get back its historical name of New York
KYIV. Feb 4 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development, and Urban Planning supports renaming the city-type settlement of Novhorodske, Bakhmut district in the Donetsk region New York. Today, the Committee on the Organization of State Power and Local Self-Government has made the decision to rename the city-type settlement of Novhorodske, Bakhmut district in the Donetsk region New York, deputy head of the committee Oleksandr Kachura (Servant of the People faction) said on Telegram on Wednesday.
The decision was made based on a recommendation issued by the Donetsk military-civilian administration: the address states that it is a historical name, which was used until 1951, Kachura said.
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The Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development, and Urban Planning has invited Leonid Kravchuk, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, to report on the action plan on Donbas settlement.
That s according to First Deputy Chairman of the Committee MP Roman Lozynskyi.
He noted that Kravchuk was summoned to a meeting with the Rada committee. On the sixth attempt today, the Committee has finally supported my proposal to invite the head of the delegation to the TCG together with the spokesman, the MP said.
According to him, the decision to hear the TCG delegates took more than a month to be implemented from the day he and his colleagues initiated the move.