Permanent authorized Russia to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich has reminded the Ukrainian authorities that, despite the postponement of the elections in the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, to delay the implementation of the Minsk agreements cannot.

According to Lukashevich, following the decision of the Donetsk and Lugansk to postpone the elections in some regions of Kiev "gets an additional chance and time for the execution of all necessary political commitments in Accordance with Minsk" the package of measures ".

"I would, however, be recalled that the postponement of the local elections does not mean that Kiev can indefinitely delay the implementation of the political arrangements of Minsk-2 (signed in Minsk agreements on the settlement in the Donbas - ed.). Other interlocutors for agreeing the modalities of the election, except those who are actually in control of the situation in individual regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and whose signatures are under the " package of measures ", in Kyiv ", - the Russian diplomat said, speaking at the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on the situation in Ukraine in Vienna.

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