MOSCOW, 30 Jul – RIA Novosti. Moscow does not accept the politicization of the OSCE themes of coronavirus in the Donbass, and the crossing of the line of contact, said Thursday the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.
“Why-that in respect of Donbass who, apparently, insisted that the leadership of the Special monitoring mission to put in the forefront the problem of access. I think this is unacceptable politicization of the situation, caused by a coronavirus infection,” – said the Minister following the meeting of foreign Ministers of the countries of the “Normandy format” in format of video conference.
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.
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