Angelina Timofeeva. To finish the Minsk process on the settlement of the situation in the East of Ukraine before the end of 2015, Clearly, will not work, said on Tuesday in Berlin the Minister for foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

He took part in the discussion during the conference of Berlin Foreign Policy Forum.

"All this (the number of steps to implement the Minsk agreement - ed) is bound to happen before early next year, i.e. until the end of the Minsk process at the end of the year. It is clear that We will not be able to do that. We do not have time to do it, as well as among them, because on October 2 in the process of the summit "channel format" in Paris We agreed on the cancellation of declared himself a separatist elections ", - said the head of the Ministry, adding that elections must be held in the coming year.

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