the central council of ukraine had already passed a bill concerning elections to the ukrainian constituent assembly, but over two weeks later, on , the russian provisional government accused the general secretariat of ukraine of separatism and threatened to take the matter to court. the government of ukraine proposed sending a delegation to settle the disagreement but the petrograd events of 7–8 november 1917 changed their plans. on 20 november 1917 the central council of ukraine issued its third (universal) decree in which it announced the date for the ukrainian constituent assembly as 9 january 1918. on 29 november 1917, the central council finally adopted the law "about elections to the constituent assembly of ukrainian people's republic".