MOSCOW, 25 APR – RIA Novosti. In Ukraine, the implementation of the Minsk agreements begin to do not very competent people, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov.
“We are particularly concerned that Ukraine is not very competent people begin to engage in the implementation of the Minsk agreements. There is a Deputy Prime Minister, who is also the Minister for the so-called “temporarily occupied territories”, which begins to make statements on the content of the approaches of Kiev to the resolution in the Donbass, rejecting the threshold idea, supported by the head of the office of the President (Ukraine) Vladimir Zelensky Andrey Ermak in the negotiations with the Deputy head of the Russian presidential administration Dmitry Kozak”, – the Minister said in the program “the Big game” on the First channel.
“I mean the idea of creating an Advisory Council of civil society representatives of Kiev and Donbass, so they, with the participation of public figures from Russia, Germany and France helped to create the right atmosphere for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Under this, again, was signed by Ermak, but then the ones I mentioned forces that do not want to allow the Ukrainian leadership to implement the Minsk agreements, scandal, and yet is now subject to serious doubt. That is, again, the Ukrainian negotiators, as we say, “crawl away” from the agreements,” – said Lavrov.
He added that the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov, “which is responsible for the so-called “occupied territories”, said that the Minsk agreement is not a legal instrument and, at best, some political agreements, and they must be treated accordingly”.
“That is, it’s not a “sacred cow” and not the ultimate truth. It is good that those who own foreign policy knowledge explained that the Minsk agreement was approved by the UN security Council, and thereby acquired international legal force. As such, they must be fulfilled”, – said Lavrov.
the settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, including during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which from September 2014 adopted three documents regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. However, after the armistice agreements between the parties to the conflict continue shooting.
