KIEV, Feb. 16 - Parliament has passed a law that would allow the government to begin the privatization of large state-owned enterprises.

Some 252 deputies voted for the adoption of bill No. 2319a-d.

Bill No. 2319a-d was developed by the deputies to replace similar bill No. 2319a developed by the Cabinet.

MP Yuriy Levchenko (out of faction) during the discussion of the bill in the session hall proposed not to cancel the pre-sale on the stock exchange of 5-10% of the shares in the enterprises being under privatization and even increase this stake to 25% and sell either on a Ukrainian stock exchange or a foreign one. But the deputies did not support the amendments proposed by Levchenko.