Lukashevich: allowing foreigners to serve in the armed forces of Ukraine contradict the Minsk agreements

Kiev's decision to allow service in the Ukrainian armed forces, foreign mercenaries and the introduction in their structure of the illegal armed groups have no relation To the Minsk agreements, said permanent Commissioner of Russia to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich, the meeting of the Permanent Council on the situation in Ukraine.

"a similar approach of the Ukrainian authorities demonstrate respect to paragraph 10 of the Complex of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements. Instead of disarming illegal groups, they were put in charge of law enforcement bodies of Ukraine, and now legalized the service of foreign mercenaries, - he said.- To the Minsk agreements such "innovation" has nothing ", - quoted Lukashevich on the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Paragraph 10 of the Complex of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements provided for the withdrawal from Ukraine of all foreign armed groups and the disarmament of illegal groups. The diplomat said that Kyiv ignores the other clauses of a complex of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements." The law on the special status of Donbass no effect, the Amnesty Law is absent, - said the Diplomat.- clarify in the Constitution that must be in the form of a Central element of decentralization taking into account peculiarities of Donbass, with the designated region has not been agreed ". At the same time Lukashevich showed that after the stabilization of the situation on the contact line need to focus on implementation of it is the political requirements " Minsk-2 "." The summit in the Normandy format in Paris on 2 October helped to remove misunderstandings in respect of certain requirements of "Complex measures" to assure him that there's no alternative as the basis for the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbass ", - he added. On Tuesday the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada adopted In the 2nd reading of the Law authorizing the service of foreigners and stateless persons in the armed forces.


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