Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow hopes that the law on the special status of Donbass will not provoke the failure of the implementation of peace agreements.

"The key importance of strict adherence to the superposition fixed and approved by the presidents of the Russian Federation, Germany, France and Ukraine. Phasing in this increasingly being tested in connection with certain legislative acts of the Verkhovna Rada of the special status of certain districts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which is inconsistent with the Minsk agreements, " Lavrov said at a press conference following the meeting with his Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak.

He said that Moscow very much hopes that the decision of Parliament " will not provoke the disruption of these important documents, which currently are the main basis of peace efforts ".

"I am confident that the controlling mechanism arranged to make leaders" channel four ", will analyze what is happening and speak on a question of this departure from the letter of the Minsk agreement, to prevent the situation when these consensus fail, " Lavrov added.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, came amid a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have taken a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.

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