The MinRegion has hosted a meeting of Vyacheslav Nehoda, Deputy Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, with representatives of the monitoring mission of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

The meeting was focused on issues of fulfilling the local self-government reform in Ukraine and power territorial arrangement, as well as power decentralisation.

‘Our aim is to build powerful local self-government, powerful hromadas from the point of view of human, natural and financial resources within the reform for hromadas to be able to exercise most powers, provide with more services, as they are closer to people and the local self-government is the basis for the country and democracy development. There are no other efficient models of achieving it’, - claimed the Deputy Minister.

He also expressed gratitude to the Council of Europe and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe for a close cooperation and effective support of Ukraine on the way of the local self-government reform.