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The former head of President Andrei Bogdan’s office, in an interview with Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a step towards the “renewal” of the Minsk accords.
The former head of the President’s Office, Andrei Bogdan, during an interview with Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak, appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Please take a step back. From the point of view of the entire world, of all people, this will be an act of the strong. It will be just a victory. [Сделайте шаг] to re-sign the Minsk agreements, “he said, the video of the conversation was posted on the journalist’s YouTube channel.
Sobchak asked under what conditions the Minsk accords could be re-signed.
“I know exactly, I understand exactly what it is algorithm of actions “, – replied.
Bogdan did not specify the essence of the alternative, referring to the confidentiality of the information. The former head of the OPU added that, “as far as he understands,” Putin is aware of this proposal.
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.
Negotiations on the resolution of the conflict are taking place within the framework of the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine – OSCE – Russia) and the Normandy Four (Ukraine – Germany – France – Russia).
On September 5, 2014, TCG approved 12 clauses of the Minsk agreements.
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 the parties to the conflict, release and exchange of prisoners, access to humanitarian missions to help those in need. , return to Ukraine of border control, implementation of constitutional reform in Ukraine in terms of decentralization.
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 at 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 in late 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.
On November 13, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, met with political advisers to the leaders of the Four Normandy countries. Ukraine, Germany and France agreed to develop a roadmap based on the “Joint Steps Plan,” he said.
