The head of the Senate (upper house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev believes that the Ukrainian conflict could become frozen.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

"The Ukrainian crisis, which has led to tragedy for the people of this state and has become a real threat to global stability, are acutely exposed the differences between the approaches to system security ", - said Tokayev, quoted, on international conference " Achievements and challenges of the OSCE to the anniversary of the Helsinki final act (1975) Summit in Astana (2010) ".

He said that in the post-Soviet space There is a conflict, which became the first "frozen" and then " long ".

"The so-called dividing lines, which are often state politicians and employees of the foreign Ministry, appeared long before the conflict in Ukraine. There is reason to fear that the Ukrainian conflict will go into the category frozen. For this reason, we still very much look forward to the OSCE, " Tokayev.

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