Media
earlier reported that US President Barack Obama confirmed his readiness to
provide the third tranche worth $1 billion to Ukraine after the government is
formed in the country.
MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. The implementation of the Minsk
Agreements is possible if Washington will link Kiev’s efforts with providing
Ukraine multi-billion loans, Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman
Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
Media earlier reported, citing Ukrainian presidential
press service, that US President Barack Obama confirmed his readiness to
provide the third tranche worth $1 billion to Ukraine after the government is
formed in the country.
"That is the answer to the question on when the
Minsk Agreements will be implemented - when Washington starts to link providing
multi-billion tranches with Kiev’s fulfillment of its commitments in accordance
with the document," Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page.
The Minsk accords were signed on 12 February 2015, after
negotiations in the so-called "Normandy format" in the Belarusian
capital Minsk, bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin, French
President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko. The package of measures envisages ceasefire, weaponry
withdrawal, prisoner exchange, local election in Donbass, constitutional reform
in Ukraine and establishing working sub-groups on security, political, economy
and humanitarian components of the Minsk accords.
Source: ITAR-TASS 01-04-2016
