Local elections in the breakaway Donetsk national Republic (DND) will not be held on the same day the Ukrainian, said Fins news the head of the national Council DND Andrey Purgin.
Signed in February the Minsk agreement on the settlement of the conflict in the Donbas provides for the constitutional reform in Ukraine and local elections in the East. These questions Kyiv is obliged to agree with the self-proclaimed DND and LNR. Last many times sent their suggestions and refinements to the basic law of the country to the authorities of Ukraine. But Kyiv's not at all a direct dialogue with the authorized republics.
"Once you have resolved the question of the rules by which elections are conducted, as soon As it will suit everyone, all parties, then These elections and will be. Can only guarantee one thing, This election will not be on the same day the Ukrainian elections. But when it is, I don't know. Minsk dialogues are very serious manipulative nature, it is unclear what and when it will end, for this reason, to predict something difficult, " - said Purgin.
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 meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.
The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".
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