In the West are beginning to accept the need to increase pressure on the Ukrainian leadership for the execution of the Minsk agreements, said foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg international economic forum.
"The main problem that hinders the implementation of the Minsk agreements - whatever item you picked, they all suggest coordination between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk. This Ukrainian authorities do not want, what was the key issue to reach agreement on all problems of the apparatus of the Ukrainian country, "Lavrov said, RIA "news" referring to TV channel RBC.
"here is our Western partners, including John Kerry during his visit To us on 12 may, including our German and French colleagues, are beginning to accept the need to increase pressure on Kiev to not only Lugansk and Donetsk were ready to implement the Minsk agreement, but also that Kiev was ready to do it," added the Minister. He also said that attempts to create parallel tracks of negotiations in conflict with the Minsk agreements." Unfortunately, even within the framework of the Contact group, created four working subgroups - even in this format, which is based on the Minsk agreements, signed, and among them, Donetsk and Lugansk, our Kiev colleagues strongly want to create some kind of parallel tracks, which it will not participate either the Donetsk or Lugansk, " - said Lavrov. According to the Minister, such a policy is a "conceptual contradiction" to Minsk all documents. At the end of may Lavrov also said that the West realizes that Kiev impede the execution of the Minsk agreements, the majority of Europeans are ready to openly put pressure on Ukraine. Then Minister for foreign Affairs of Belgium Didier Reynders said that for the execution of reforms by the Ukrainian authorities, the European Union must exert pressure not only on Moscow, but also in Kiev.

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