The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the last conversation in the Normandy format intensified his sense of cautious confidence.
about it informs RIA " Novosti ".
As reported by the print edition OPINION, the last telephone conversations of leaders "channel four" ended with an agreement to hold the summit in early October in Paris. In addition, on Thursday, the head of Ukraine did not want to have a dialogue With the leaders of DPR and LPR. Poroshenko reminded that in order to resolve conflict situations in the Donbass there is a format of trilateral contact group, which, according to him, entirely justified. In the last month of summer foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in conversation With the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin tried to convince Kiev to direct dialogue With Donbass. As resembled Russia's envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, in Accordance With the Minsk agreements, Kiev is obliged to come to a common understanding With the authorized DND and LNR on the content of about 10 laws, which then must be implemented equally in the interaction With them. The Minsk agreement also commits the parties to the conflict to engage in direct dialogue. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of August, the victims of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine began about 7, 9 thousand People, at least 17, 6 thousand Received damage to health.

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