The acting head of the OSCE, foreign Minister and head of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter believes that the elections in the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics would lead to further complication of the execution of the Minsk agreements.
the appeal of Burkhalter released around midnight on the last working day of the week, expressed regret that the efforts of the tripartite liaison group Ukraine-Russia-OSCE to hold a video conference with the designated self-proclaimed education has not led to the desired result, because they do not have to participate.
" Minsk Protocol provides for early elections in certain regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions in Accordance with Ukrainian legislation. This was in response to demands for greater decentralization, which was to make efforts to overall efforts to return peace and stability in the war torn Eastern Ukraine ", - reported in circulation.
The head of the OSCE noted that progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreement is reached, the most in the field of ceasefire and monitoring, decentralization and the release of prisoners, which led to the reduction of violence.
" However, numerous points of agreements still awaiting implementation ", - said Burkhalter.
according to him, during meetings in the last 3 days its Commissioner, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini said that urgently requires additional efforts to fully implement all provisions of the Minsk documents, including efforts to create a declared ceasefire more sustainable, to protect the Russian-Ukrainian border, to release all arrested and economic rehabilitation of the conflict zone, reportedly in circulation.
in DND and LNR November 2 elections, which Kyiv authorities considered illegal. The EU believes that these elections in conflict Minsk agreement on the settlement in the Donbass, and refuses to acknowledge their results. In the capital of Russia believe that artificial interpretation of the agreements complicates the resolution on Ukraine, and report ready to accept the results of the will.
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