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The first deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group, Vitold Fokin, said that together with his colleagues in the TCG, he was making efforts to restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, which meant “incomparably more” than ” a misused word. ”
The first deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group, Vitold Fokin, said that he “recklessly used the term ‘insurgents’ when in an interview with Ukrainian radio he spoke about the militants in Donbass.
His comment was published by the Interfax-Ukraine agency on September 24.
“And although this word was also used by the former president of Ukraine, in particular, in his speech, if I am not mistaken, at the University of Zurich in January 2015,it would be more correct to say “militants”. I sincerely apologize to everyone who was hurt by my words. As a patriot of Ukraine and as one of the first leaders of the revived Ukrainian state, I sincerely wish and will do everything possible for peace to return to Ukraine, so that our military and civilians do not die. This is how I see my role in the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group, “Fokin said.
Fokin is “really sorry” that his “the reserve caused such a significant resonance “in societywrites the agency.
“The efforts that my colleagues and I are making to achieve our common goal, to restore the sovereignty of Ukraine and the territorial integrity of our state within internationally recognized borders, are incomparably more important than the word used without success,” he said.
Fokin recalled the “rebels” when he spoke of the need to create an interim government under the auspices of the UN Security Council in the Donbass districts not controlled by Kiev before the elections.
“This, in fact, is not a new proposal, it has already been discussed. Russia agreed with this means of moving towards peace, but said that the UN military contingent should focus only on the current demarcation line. Of course, you can’t agree to this. ” place the contingent on the border with Russia in order to stop helping the rebels from there, or throughout the territory [ОРДЛО]… In the end, the Minsk accords say that it is possible to concentrate UN troops on the demarcation line and in the territory where the elections will be held, “Fokin 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.
In July 2020, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, withdrew from the delegation. the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, 81, who headed it until July 28, and named the first 86-year-old President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk. In August, 87-year-old Fokin became its first deputy.
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