Ukraine gov't can't block referendum on Crimean status - Crimean MP
8 March 2014, 21:03 -- Ukraine's government will not be able to block a planned referendum in Crimea on March 16 at which the local population would be asked whether it wanted the region to remain part of Ukraine or would prefer it to be part of Russia, a senior member of Crimea's legislature said.
Kiev's efforts to thwart the plebiscite are something that 'can only happen in a non-state such as modern Ukraine,' parliament first deputy chairman Grigory Ioffe told reporters.
In a comment on reports that today's lists of voters are obsolete, Ioffe said: 'We have found a mechanism to renew them, and today everything's OK with them.'
He explained that all that one would need to be allowed to vote was to show the entry in one's passport on one's residence registration. He also said the referendum organizing commission 'has just approved the exterior and content of the referendum ballot.'
'I think it will be shown in the news this evening,' he added.
Voice of Russia, Interfax
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