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The Ukrainian side in the trilateral contact group has prepared new details for the “Plan of joint steps” to resolve the situation in Donbas. They include the procedure to transfer control over the border to Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reported, citing sources.
Ukraine has prepared details for the Joint Action Plan proposed by the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbass. This was reported on November 13 by the Interfax-Ukraine agency with reference to a source close to the negotiations.
Among the details, according to the news agency, is the most elaborate plan to transfer control over the border.
“Attention is drawn to monitoring by the OSCE to ensure confidence in events. Already in the first stage, the OSCE should ensure maximum control over the border. At the same time, a special sub-group will be created in the TCG to handle the procedure to restore Ukraine’s control over the border. This control should be ensured before starting. electoral campaign to local governments in ORDLO under Ukrainian law, “a source told the agency.
According to him, the main component of Ukraine’s peace plan is the complete demilitarization of CADLO. It includes the withdrawal of mercenaries and heavy weapons, disarmament, demobilization of pro-Russian forces. This process will be coordinated with the process of returning the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to their places of permanent deployment.
Interfax-Ukraine notes that an important element of the plan is full OSCE access to all territory temporarily not controlled by the Ukrainian government.
“The OSCE must ensure that a security vacuum is avoided in the demilitarization process, and will subsequently contribute to the holding of fair and democratic elections. To this end, it is proposed to create a special unit of up to 1,500 professional police officers within the OSCE SMM “said the source.
The plan calls for the introduction of a transitional justice model: rules for bringing serious crime suspects to justice, details of the amnesty, and a human rights protection system. The adoption of the relevant legislation should be synchronized with the cancellation of a series of decrees of the President of the Russian Federation on the simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship to residents of ORDLO, notes the news agency.
The plan also provides for the return of the property to its owners, Ukrainian natural and legal persons, after an international audit.
During the trilateral contact group talks 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, 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 by the end of 2020, the exchange of detainees and an increase in the OSCE SMM contingent in Donbas – by 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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