Tatyana Firsova. The German authorities hope that the Russian Federation, as agreed at the conference "the Norman four" in Paris, will have an impact on the leadership self-proclaimed republics in Eastern Ukraine and the situation with the elections will be clarified this week, said the Commissioner of the German foreign Ministry Martin Schaefer.

"I think throughout the week we will specifically know that with the election," he told reporters in Berlin on the first day of the week.

The Ukrainian Government has appointed elections to local authorities on 25 October. The Authorities of the self-proclaimed LNR on November 1, but in DND they are required to pass on 18 October.

Berlin and Paris are pushing for the postponement of elections in Eastern Ukraine.

"Because their conduct is a gross deviation from the Minsk agreements," said Schaefer.

the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the results of the summit "channel four" in Paris on the last working day of the week revealed that the parties agreed on the need to postpone elections. Hollande said that the elections in the East of Ukraine have the opportunity to not before 3 months, so as soon as the time to fix the Ukrainian election law and the preparation of voting so that it conforms to the norms of the OSCE.

The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century on the first day of the week said that the signals on the postponement of elections in the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics from the Russian side, are already underway, in the capital of Russia is waiting for the reaction.

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