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The Ukrainian side in the trilateral contact group submitted a “Joint Action Plan” to resolve the situation in Donbass as a counter-document in response to the Russian proposal. On this basis, the OSCE representatives should work out a compromise option, said a member of the Ukrainian delegation, journalist Sergei Garmash.
The “plan of joint steps” to resolve the situation in Donbas, proposed by Ukraine, is a response to the ultimatum of the Russian side. One of the members of the political subgroup of the trilateral contact group, Ukrainian journalist Sergei Garmash, said this in an interview with the Telegraph publication.
“Our plan arose in response to the plan expressed by the representatives of the Russian delegation. We couldn’t just reject his plan or just discuss it. It would be illogical. Therefore, we proposed our action plan as a counter-document, on the basis of which the OSCE representatives should develop a compromise option. It will be a document for discussion, a summary table, that should form the basis of the negotiations, “Garmash said.
According to him, Ukraine’s plan is mainly aimed at designating Ukraine’s position on the resolution of the conflict, as well as maintaining dialogue and continuing the negotiation process.
“The plan presented by the Russian side seemed like an ultimatum,” the journalist stressed. He said that on November 10 the political subgroup will discuss the document that the OSCE will propose based on these two plans.
Garmash expressed the view that Russia would not accept Ukraine’s proposal in the same way that the Ukrainian side did not accept the Russian plan.
“But this is the meaning of the negotiations: to seek a compromise option if both parties have an interest in resolving the conflict. Today it is obvious that the Russian Federation is not prepared to resolve this problem politically. And the fact that they leaked their plan to the “pro-Russian Ukrainian media,” it shows that their goal is not to resolve the conflict, but to influence the situation in Ukraine, “added the negotiator.
During the trilateral contact group negotiations on October 21, the Russian side presented a new proposal to the Ukrainian delegation: to create a new step-by-step map of the group’s work for many years to come. The first president of Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group Leonid Kravchuk spoke about this.
On November 5, Kravchuk announced the main theses of the “Joint Steps Plan”. The document provided for the end of the war in Donbass by the end of 2020 and the holding of local elections there until March 31, 2021; creation of a free economic zone in CADLO for 30 years; the abolition of decrees of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, which are a direct interference in the life of the occupied region (including the simplification of the procedure for issuing Russian citizenship). The Normandy Four summit should take place at the end of 2020, the exchange of detainees and an increase in the OSCE SMM contingent in Donbass, in mid-December, the plan says.
Ukraine’s proposed “Joint Steps Plan” does not replace what has already been done during the six years of the Normandy format and the TCG, Kravchuk said. “This is a document that responds to the realities and what has been done, and with your help we want to complement or clarify those issues that have not been reflected in a broad, precise and concrete way in previous documents,” he 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.
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