Kiev's attempts to create parallel tracks of negotiations on Ukraine without the participation of DPR and LPR in conflict with the Minsk agreement, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov In..

"Unfortunately, even in a Contact group when you have 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 ", - Lavrov said on air of television channel RBC on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg international economic forum.

According to the Minister, such a policy is a "conceptual contradiction" to Minsk all documents.


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.

One of the most important points signed in February of the Minsk agreements was the constitutional reform, and the enactment of a permanent law on the special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The agreement notes that decentralization should take place in coordination specifically, the commissioners of these districts, however, the Kiev authorities are ignoring this provision, arguing about the fact that you are unwilling to have a dialogue with the authorized rebellious territories. Read

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