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As Kiev is calling for continuing the war in the country’s east, the Opposition Bloc in the parliament said on Wednesday it has registered a package of bills needed for the full implementation of the Minsk agreements, TASS reported.

"The bills that have been registered give our country a chance for the diplomatic solution of the conflict in eastern Ukraine," the chairman of the Opposition Bloc’s parliamentary faction, Yury Boyko, said at the meeting with the representatives of the public organizations in the Kharkov region, in the country’s north-east.

"We believe that the authorities should prepare the needed bills but as they have adopted a pro-war stance, we have taken this initiative ourselves. The laws which we registered in elaboration of the Minsk agreements should be adopted by the parliament," he stressed.

The so-called peace package consists of laws on "restoring the banking system, amnesty for the participants of the conflict, social benefit payments in Donbas and other provisions stipulated in the Minsk agreements," he said.