About this on July 9 on the air of the TV channel “Ukraine 24” said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Alexei Reznikov.
“From the first day of my stay in the Cabinet of Ministers, I said that the Minsk agreements are subject to modernization. This is normal, there is no fear, no shock. We admit: yes, they are, we need to rely on them, because these are political and diplomatic agreements, they do not have the character of an international treaty or a legal document, “he said.
The interpretation that these agreements are supposedly binding because the UN Security Council approved them is erroneous.
“He approved them, but these documents do not carry any factor of obligation. This, for example, is not the Budapest Memorandum, not the Treaty of Friendship between Ukraine and Russia, which our neighbors were obliged to fulfill and violated brutally,” Reznikov added.
Russia occupied Crimea after the power blockade of Ukrainian military units and illegal referendum on March 16, 2014… The accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation is not recognized by Ukraine and most countries of the world.
Immediately 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 UN, 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, 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.
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