Steinmeier: the Minsk agreement - last chance for Ukraine
The Minister for foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier tried to convince Kyiv authorities not to waste time performing political Minsk agreement concerning the conduct of local elections in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and constitutional reform, informs.

The Minister for foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier tried to convince Kyiv Authorities Not to waste time performing political Minsk agreement concerning the conduct of local elections in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions and constitutional reform, informs.
"The situation in the East of Ukraine is still Not as stable as we would like," said the Minister in an interview to the magazine, adding: "We are still far from being able to call it satisfactory."
The German authorities are concerned about adherence to the ceasefire, but Not only, the magazine emphasizes. Equally alarming is the departure from the political agreements reached in Minsk. According to them, the rebel territories shall be granted a special status with a high degree of autonomy and are required to undergo free elections, recalls the media.
However, the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman signed a decree According to which part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions declared " the time occupied territories, and elections are held only after full release.
first of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Wednesday will meet in Paris with their colleagues from Russia and Ukraine for the discussion of Ukrainian settlement of the fall. However, he noticed that "there can be no military solution" to the conflict.
"The tone of the discussion [in Paris] promises to be sharp," summarizes Der Spiegel.