Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the elections in the Donbass will be held only after the implementation of the signs of their conduct with the OSCE.

yesterday Klimkin said that Kiev can not conduct a direct dialogue " with those who now call themselves the Donetsk and Lugansk ", because you first need to build a "real election" according to the Ukrainian laws.

the question of when are elections held in the Donbas, Klimkin in ether replied that " it depends on when we will hold an effective dialogue concerning the implementation of the signs of the OSCE."

Under the provisions of the measures for the interpretation of the Minsk agreements adopted on February 12 by the contact group on settling the situation in Donbas, the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics shall be granted special status, then there must be elections and then will be solved, what will be the final status of these territories from Ukraine. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had previously stated that he considers possible the holding of elections in the Donbass before the end of the year.


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

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