Likhachev: a call to release the hostages gives Kiev a chance at sanity
The appeal was held in Riga summit of the Eastern partnership on the urgent release of the hostages in the conflict in Ukraine gives a chance to the President Petro Poroshenko and his team to embark on the path of sanity, " said a member of the Department of the state Duma on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Vasily Likhachev (CPRF).
The final joint Declaration of the summit of " Eastern partnership ", which was signed on the last working day of the week, called urgently to release the hostages in the conflict in Ukraine. The summit participants called on all parties to the rapid and full implementation of the Minsk agreements.
"This kind of treatment and a statement of the problem, from my point of view, have very serious political weight. And in truth, after yesterday's completely nihilistic about international law steps and actions for the freezing of the whole complex of the universally recognized norms and principles of international humanitarian law, of course Vsplanet the question of going or not going the Kiev authorities to execute or if to approach to a performance of one of the Minsk agreements on the exchange of the absolute number and the other side ", - stated the people's Deputy, responding to a question about the possibility of the summit's call amid enacted before Parliament statements about the refusal of a number of obligations on human rights.
review Likhachev, today for the Kiev authorities is extremely important that there are political forces who " think not as they who want action not such as they, and the forces that are actually advocate the observance of the norms and principles of international law, including the Minsk consensus ".
"I think the message for today, probably because of the amount of political news, they suddenly found after Kerry's visit to Sochi, Noled in the capital of Russia, after the relevant statements from the President of France and Chancellor of Germany.