Chaly said that Russia is imposing a position that the Minsk agreements are an international legal document, and that the UN resolution “approved this document.”
“This is fake! This is not true! The resolution on the Russian draft should have been like this, but it did not. From a legal point of view, there is no approval of the Minsk agreements as a legal document by the UN resolution,” he stressed.
Oleksiy Arestovich, speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass, said on September 5 that the Minsk agreements are optional.
“The Russian Federation is directly rubbing its glasses on the world community, consistently throwing into the information space (including ours) that supposedly Minsk-2 is obligatory for implementation by the decision of the UN Security Council. including in the UN Security Council, “he stressed. According to Arestovich, Russia is trying to impose its interpretation of the document on the world. was defeated.
U.S. Embassy Same Day urged the Russian Federation to fulfill its obligations under the Minsk agreements.
Straightaway after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine. According to the United Nations, during the conflict about 13 thousand people died.
Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are being conducted within the framework of the trilateral contact group (TCG, Ukraine – OSCE – Russia) and the Normandy Four (Ukraine – Germany – France – Russia). Minsk has become a meeting place TCG in 2014. Now, due to the coronavirus pandemic, TCG meetings are being held in the format of a video link.
February 12, 2015 in Minsk the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel during 17-hour talks agreed on two documents on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass: a declaration on the implementation of the Minsk agreements and a set of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. They provided for the cessation of hostilities in the Donbass, the withdrawal of illegal armed groups from the region, the creation of conditions for holding elections to local authorities, etc. So far, the Minsk agreements have not been implemented.
June 24 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Minsk agreements on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass, signed in 2015, are “barely alive”. Head of state On September 1, during an official visit to Washington, he said that Ukraina considers several models of attracting the USA to the Norman format.
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