Poroshenko nourishes the hope that Minsk will agree on the rules of elections in the Donbass
The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko nourishes the hope that the contact group on settling the situation in Donbass will be able to prepare election rules on uncontrollable Kiev territories of the region.
"Ukraine will not be able at present to hold an Election since there are no currently Ukrainian sovereignty in the occupied territory. We will do everything possible to in the format of trilateral contact group were designed and offered to the Supreme Rada of the features of the electoral process and immediately after the withdrawal of Russian troops, immediately after covering the activities of the Ukrainian parties, the Ukrainian media, Ukrainian commissions that will ensure the counting of votes, and secure the participation of all candidates in the electoral process We also had the opportunity to hold Elections in the occupied territory, " said Poroshenko met with the heads of monitoring international monitoring missions to observe local elections in Ukraine.
Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict, support of militias and does not send in the Donbass troops. Anyway, Kiev and the West continues to blame Russia of "military aggression" and occasionally "find" in the East of Ukraine and in the border regions of Russia "certain units" of the armed forces, although international observers in the periodic inspections have never found any undeclared military activities.
Elections in Ukraine held on October 25. Power DND and LNR first agreed to postpone local Elections for 2016. During this period of time the Ukrainian Authorities will be obliged to enforce all taken on their own shoulders in Minsk obligations, namely: to provide the Donbass special status, to prevent the persecution and reward the participants within DND and LNR, and also to take amendments to the Constitution in new, coherent with the self-proclaimed republics of edition. Kiev welcomed the postponement of elections, but also demands the cancellation of the election results of November 2, 2014 in DNR and LNR and informs about the need to adopt a special law on the elections within the limits of separate regions of Donbass.
The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of Donbas lasts more than a year. On February 12, negotiations were consensus about stop fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, the introduction to the Constitution of Ukraine for change about the decentralization of Power and consolidation of special status " of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".