Former French President, leader of the largest opposition party of the country Nicolas Sarkozy considers it necessary to turn the page of the Ukrainian fall after the full implementation of the Minsk agreements.

"we must turn the page of the Ukrainian fall by convincing the President of the Russian Federation to comply fully with the Minsk agreement," said Sarkozy in the interview to BFMTV channel in the Russian capital after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He said that stands for sequential lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation in case of implementation of the agreements " Minsk-2 ".

Sarkozy also said that he is against excluding Russia from the group of eight." I don't understand why the Russian Federation was excluded from the G8. Due to the fact that we had a disagreement? Ought all the time to have a dialogue, " said former President of France.

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.

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