NATO Secretary General tried to convince all parties to fulfill Minsk agreement

Vladimir Dobrovolsky. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tried to convince all parties to fully perform Minsk consensus, and the Russian Federation - to put pressure on the militias to enforce Treaty to stop the fire, he told reporters.

"I urge all parties to fully perform the Minsk agreement and not to break (an agreement) to stop the fire," said Mr Stoltenberg in Riga before the meeting of the heads of the Ministry of defence of the member countries of the EU.

"I urge the Russian Federation to withdraw all its troops from Eastern Ukraine, to stop all support for the separatists and not to violate the Minsk agreement, and to use all its influence on the separatists, to get them to execute the contract on stopping the fire," said NATO Secretary General.

according to him, " Russia supports the separatists, providing them with heavy equipment, advanced weapons, troops and training ".

"The ceasefire Also undermines the fact that the OSCE observers do not provide access to allow them to fulfill their job is to monitor the ceasefire," said Mr Stoltenberg.

Kiev periodically informs about the fact that fighting in the East of Ukraine with the units of the Russian army. Moscow emphasized many times that completely uninvolved in the events in the South-East of Ukraine and is not a party to domestic conflict. Also the Russian authorities have repeatedly said that in Ukraine there is no regular troops of the Russian Federation.

Declaration in respect of Russian weapons in the Donbass in the beginning of the conflict, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov.. According to his statement, the statement of Kiev and Western countries about the fact that the presence in the South-East of Ukraine of Russian arms, as if it proves the RF interference in the conflict, " ridiculous, because there are other weapons never was there at all Russian weapons."


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