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Aleksey Arestovich, spokesman for the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group on conflict resolution in Donbass, said the greatest achievement of the agreements reached a year ago in Paris is the return of the prisoners.
The agreements reached a year ago in Paris by the leaders of the Normandy Four have been half implemented. Such opinion on December 8 voiced Spokesperson for the UN delegation of Ukraine in the trilateral contact group on conflict resolution in Donbass Alexey Arestovich.
He believed that following the statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, there was no need to talk about alternative processes to resolve the situation in Donbass.
“The plan that nobody believed in, the Paris agreements, worked. They worked around 50-50. But this is an unprecedented case during international armed conflicts of this type. And even many countries that have already dealt with such things tell us: that they are observing unprecedented things, “Arestovich said.
The representative of the delegation of Ukraine pointed out that one of the achievements of the agreements reached is the fact of the “rehabilitation” of the Normandy format after the change of power in Ukraine.
According to Arestovich, the greatest achievement is the return of the prisoners, as well as a 10-fold reduction in the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed and four months of “relative silence.”
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.
Negotiations on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass are taking place in the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE), as well as in the Normandy format, with the participation of representatives of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia. Representatives of the militants DPR and LPR are present at the talks in Minsk.
On December 9, 2019, the first in three years and the last summit of the leaders of the Normandy Four took place in Paris. The final statement states that the parties agreed on a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees, the withdrawal of forces and equipment in three new areas in Donbass, the extension of the law “On a special procedure for local self-government in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions “for one year and the extension of the mandate of the OSCE special monitoring mission … rethe agreements were partially complied with, in particular, the exchange of detainees took place on two occasions.
The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG, the country’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, on November 5, 2020, said that Kiev wants a new meeting of leaders of the Normandy format countries. took place before the end of this year… He said leaders should discuss the conditions for holding local elections in ORDLO.
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