The meeting of foreign Ministers "channel four" was necessary, it is obliged to force Ukraine to proceed To the negotiation process, and not its imitation, said Last news authorized representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in the contact group on the resolution of the conflict situation in the Donbass Denis Putilin.

the dialogue of foreign Ministers "channel four" (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine) were held on Tuesday in Paris behind closed doors. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov at the meeting, said that all parties expressed commitment to the "Minsk-2" and stressed that the alternatives so far no.

"Unfortunately, since the last few meetings of the contact group showed rather weak dynamics of the discussion and adoption of any decisions, I think meeting in Paris is required. Such tremors are required to encourage the Ukrainian side To the real negotiation process, and not its imitation. With own side, I can say that we are all points of the set of measures ", - said Pushilin.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them during the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.


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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