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Already at the time of signing the Minsk agreements, it was clear that they were impractical, but their unilateral cancellation is not provided for by international standards, the head of the Ukrainian delegation told the trilateral contact group Leonid Kravchuk. In his opinion, only the leaders of the Normandy Four countries are capable of resolving this contradiction.
The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, said that the Minsk agreements could not be implemented due to the different positions of Ukraine and Russia on the issue of holding local elections in Donbass. . He said this on September 11 to Radio NV.
“Headed by [экс-президентом Украины Петром] Poroshenko scored one thing and now they demand another. And those who signed it remind us that international agreements must be implemented. Now we find ourselves in a rather difficult situation: there are Minsk agreements, but they cannot be implemented for obvious reasons. And also because when they signed up, it was already clear that they would not be fulfilled. But according to international agreements, such agreements cannot be canceled by one of the parties, “Kravchuk said in his opinion.
A way out of this situation must be sought in the Normandy format, believes the first president of Ukraine. He expressed his hope that after the talks between the advisers of the heads of the Four Normandy countries, which are held today in Berlin, a new summit will be held with the participation of the presidents of Ukraine, France and Russia, as well as the Chancellor German.
“I think that under the right conditions and during those meetings, this problem should be solved. Only at this level,” Kravchuk said.
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. The Russian Federation does not officially recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
On September 5, 2014, a trilateral contact group composed of representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE approved 12 points of the Minsk agreements. They were also signed by then-DPR leaders and LPR militants.
On February 12, 2015, the second Minsk agreements were signed with the mediation of Germany and France. They provide for a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons, monitoring of international observers, holding local elections in accordance with Ukrainian law, amnesty for parties to the conflict, release and exchange of prisoners, access of humanitarian missions to help those in need. , return to Ukraine of border control, implementation of constitutional reform in Ukraine in terms of decentralization. On the Ukrainian side, the document was approved by the country’s fifth president, Poroshenko.
Negotiations on the resolution of the conflict are taking place in the framework of the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine – OSCE – Russia) and the Normandy Four (Ukraine – Germany – France – Russia).
On December 9, 2019, Paris hosted the first summit of the Normandy Four leaders in three years. The final statement states that the parties agreed about a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees according to the “all for all” formula until December 31, 2019, the withdrawal of forces and assets in three new areas in Donbas, the extension of the law “On a special procedure for local self-government in certain areas for one year” Donetsk and Lugansk regions “and the extension of the mandate of the special OSCE monitoring mission. Preparations were partially implemented… The next summit was expected to take place in March-April 2020, but this did not happen.
As Kravchuk said, at the TCG meeting on August 18-19, 2020, Russia issued an ultimatum, stating that the next local elections on October 25, 2020 should be held throughout the entire Ukraine, including the occupied one.
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