NATO supports efforts to execute the Minsk agreements in Ukraine
Natalia Dobrovolskaya. NATO supports efforts to execute the Minsk agreements and cease-fire in the East of Ukraine, said the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Jens Stoltenberg before the meeting of the foreign Ministers of NATO countries.
" We need to support all efforts to perform and not to violate Minsk consensus and ceasefire. The government of Ukraine has made significant efforts to fulfill different points in the framework of the Minsk agreements, " he said.
Stoltenberg has again been accused militias of Donbass in the failure of the Minsk agreements." The ceasefire is violated. Minsk consensus, which says about the necessity of monitoring the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine, was not able to be executed, because the work is responsible for monitoring has been undermined, " said the Secretary General.
He also tried to convince Russia not to support the militia of the South-East of Ukraine and not to violate the ceasefire ".
according to him, " NATO expects that Ukraine will continue to follow the path of reforms and will do everything in their power to fulfill Minsk agreement ".
the armistice in Ukraine was signed on 5 September in Minsk. Kyiv authorities and Authorized militia agreed to exchange prisoners and has achieved a number of political arrangements, for example, about the commitment of Ukraine to early release from condemnation militias and approve the law on the special status of some areas of Donbass. After the past 2 November in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics elections fire in the Donbass intensified, the parties blame each other in violation of the agreements.
Western countries and the Kiev authorities many times accused Moscow of supporting militias of Donbass. Russia in response stated that absolutely no relation to the events in the South-East of Ukraine, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia noted that all charges against her unsubstantiated.