Earlier today, the Constitutional Court green-lighted such move.

The Verkhovna Rada adopted in its first reading a presidential bill on amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine regarding the strategic course of the state for obtaining full membership of Ukraine in the European Union and NATO (No. 9037).

A total of 311 deputies supported the draft law.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine has green-lighted a bill on amendments to the Constitution regarding Ukraine's strategic course for obtaining full membership in the European Union and NATO.

The Verkhovna Rada submitted the bill for the CCU consideration on September 20.

The bill proposes that Ukraine's irreversible course toward European and Euro-Atlantic integration be stipulated in the preamble of the Fundamental Law along with the confirmation of European identity of the Ukrainian people.

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Article 85 suggests defining that the powers of the Verkhovna Rada include determining the foundations of domestic and foreign policy, implementing the state's strategic course for obtaining full membership of Ukraine in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Article 102 is supplemented with the provision that "the president of Ukraine is the guarantor of the implementation of the state's strategic course for obtaining Ukraine's full membership in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."

Article 116 is amended with a new clause, according to which the Cabinet of Ministers "ensures the implementation of the state's strategic course for obtaining Ukraine's full membership in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."

At the same time, Clause 14 of Section 15 "Transitional Provisions" is proposed to be excluded from the Constitution. It says that the use of existing military bases on the territory of Ukraine for the temporary stationing of foreign military formations is possible on a lease basis in the manner determined by international treaties of Ukraine ratified by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.