MOSCOW, 30 Jul – RIA Novosti. Russia hopes that Kyiv will ASAP remove the blockade of Donbass, said Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“I Hope that as soon as possible will be withdrawn entered by the Kiev blockade of Donbass, hope will be restored broken socio-economic, financial, transport communications”, – said the Minister following the meeting of foreign Ministers of the countries of the “Normandy format” in format of video conference.
“we talked about humanitarian issues. At the suggestion of our German and French colleagues, we urged the Contact group to make it more active and poeffektivnee considered issues relating to the recovery of payment of pensions in the territory of Donbass and considered other issues related to the humanitarian situation in these territories”, – he noted.
In the first three years the summit of the countries “Norman Quartet”, which was held in Paris on 9 December 2019, the parties adopted a joint communique and agreed to meet in four months in Berlin to continue work on resolving the situation in Donbas. The communiqué stressed that the Minsk agreements remain the basis for work in the “channel format”, provided by the breeding forces by the end of March 2020 in three new points in the Donbass. The leaders also called on to provide up to the end of the ceasefire in the Donbass.
the Ukrainian Authorities in April 2014 began a military operation against the breakaway LC and the DNI, which declared independence after a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the latest UN victims of the conflict were about 13 thousand people. 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.
