The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry in the course of a telephone conversation underlined the progress of the situation in Ukraine, said the Commissioner of the state Department of the USA John Kirby.
"Both leaders stressed the movement in the right direction towards compliance with the Minsk agreements," Kirby said, reports RIA " Novosti ".
according to him, Ukraine is "very fragile" ceasefire, and that its recent data contract " seems to be respected ". On Thursday at the initiative of America had a telephone conversation Lavrov and Kerry, during which the parties discussed not only the situation in Ukraine and ways of resolving conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic. Remember, the contact group on Ukraine in the near future will focus on the development of the law on local elections, which will give the opportunity to spend them in Accordance with the Minsk agreements, said the OSCE. This decision by the republics of Donbass applauded in the capital of Russia, in Ukraine, in Paris, the US and the EU. According to the source, the DPR and the LPR agreed to postpone the election with the abolition of "anti-terrorist" operations. At a meeting of leaders "Norman Quartet" last Friday confirmed the agreement on the withdrawal of the conflict parties weapons with a caliber of not more than 100 mm. on the first day weekend in Lugansk people's Republic took in the rear with the separation line 50 tanks under the supervision of authorized OSCE mission. 29 September in Minsk was initialed an agreement about the discharge of weapons a caliber of less than 100 millimeters and tanks from the frontline in Donbass. On 30 September a contract was signed by the head of the DND Alexander Zakharchenko and the head of the Luhansk national Republic Igor Carpentry.

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