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A year later, after the Normandy summit to resolve the conflict in Donbass, which was held in Paris, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the need for a meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four.
Ukraine has shown the world that it is interested in achieving peace in Donbass, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the anniversary of the Normandy Four summit to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
“The road to peace is always thorny. But this is the road that both parties must travel. Ukraine’s activity in the negotiation process showed the whole world and, more importantly, the residents of Donbass that we are. those of us who are interested in peace, and Russia is blocking the implementation of the agreements. ” press service of the head of state.
The most tangible results in the negotiation process to achieve peace in the Donbass can be achieved at the summit of the leaders of the Four of Normandy, stressed the president of Ukraine.
Zelensky noted that the Ukrainian authorities are ready for a new stage in the withdrawal of forces and equipment in Donbass and the next round of release of detainees. He also recalled the ceasefire regime, which, according to him, “has generally continued” since July 27.
The head of state believes that Kiev is capable of “winning the battle for the emotions of the residents of the temporarily occupied territory.”
“We are doing very specific things that clearly demonstrate to all the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk, who cross the demarcation line, that Ukraine is much better than the self-proclaimed, unrecognized and non-functional structures,” the president emphasized.
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.
Zelensky is confident that the war will be completed during his tenure.
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.
On December 9, Paris hosted a summit of the leaders of the Normandy Four. Its final communiqué establishes that the parties agreed to a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees according to the formula of “all for all” until December 31, 2019, the disconnection of forces and resources in three new areas in Donbass, the extension of the law for one year. “On a special procedure for local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” and the extension of the mandate of the OSCE special monitoring mission. The agreements were partially implemented. The next summit was expected to take place in March – April 2020, but this did not happen.
Ukraine insists on holding the Normandy Four summit by the end of 2020, but according to media reports, the Kremlin is not planning such a meeting in the near future.
As explained by the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, Oleksiy Reznikov, Zelensky said that one year is given to implement the scenario described in the Minsk Accords.
If the conflict in Donbass is not resolved through negotiations in Minsk, Ukraine “will change its tactics,” the president said. In December 2019, Zelensky said his team would not wait another five years to resolve the military conflict in Donbas. Plan B to resolve the situation in Donbass is a “wall” that will mean that in CADLO’s territory there will no longer be Ukraine, but “something else,” he said.
On December 9, after this one-year period, the adviser to the head of the office of President Andriy Yermak, Mikhail Podolyak, said that Zelensky had decided to abandon Plan B, and the head of the Ukrainian delegation in the contact group trilateral, the country’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, said the document was being worked on. although it is not yet.
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