Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that the amendments to the Constitution concerning the decentralization of the country do not include federalization.

“No federalization will be allowed, and the issues of defense of the state, security, public order, and foreign relations – the key issues on which the integrity and the vertical power structure in the state rest, will be exclusively in the competence of the state authorities,” he said while opening a meeting of the National Reforms Council in Kyiv on June 23.