KIEV, July 18 – Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has amended some laws that regulate the specifics of land utilization, special water use, and town planning in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that the law amending some Ukrainian laws that settle the legal regime for the area radioactively contaminated after Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster (No. 4437) was backed by 234 lawmakers last week.