#Referendum

#Referendum

However, Ukraine's president said sensitive issues around territorial control in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, along with the management of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), remain unresolved. Mr Zelensky spoke as the US showed the 20-point plan, hammered out after marathon talks in Florida in recent days, to Russian negotiators. A response is expected from Moscow today, Mr Zelensky said. The Ukrainian president briefed journalists on each point of the plan yesterday but his comments were embargoed until this morning.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the United States is pushing for Ukraine to withdraw its forces from the Donetsk region to establish a free economic zone in the Kyiv-held parts of eastern Ukraine that Moscow wants to control. Zelenskyy confirmed on Thursday that his country had presented the US with a 20-point set of counter-proposals for peace amid discussions on security guarantees with top US officials, making it clear that any territorial concessions would have to be put to a referendum in Ukraine.

Thailand's new prime minister has said his government will propose a referendum to address an ongoing dispute with its neighbour, Cambodia, over a demarcation agreement. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters on Monday that in order to avoid further conflict, the government will push for a vote on whether Thailand should revoke the existing memorandum of understanding on border issues with Cambodia.

The protesters, led by civic groups and nationalist parties, articulated their opposition to the euro adoption, suggesting it represents a loss of national sovereignty for Bulgaria.

President Gustavo Petro's recent decree to call a referendum on labour reform was suspended by Colombia's Council of State due to lack of Senate approval.