Ivan Popesku

Lawmaker from the Party of Regions Ivan Popesku, left, accepting congratulations from his colleagues in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in Kyiv, on Thursday, April 16, 2009. This day the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a Law "On Associations of Local Self-Governmental Bodies" . 392 out of 436 lawmakers of Ukraine registered in the session hall voted for this law. The Law defines legal principles of organization and activity of associations and other forms of voluntary unities of the local self-governmental bodies and its relations with state power bodies and local self-government bodied in accordance with Constitution of Ukraine, Law "On Local Self Government", and other laws Photo UNIAN