Nothing
more meaningful than Minsk agreements for settlement in Ukraine can be managed
to be developed now, Sergey Lavrov said.
MOSCOW, May 8. /TASS/. Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies’ staff is
regularly staging armed provocations on the contact line in Donbass so that not
to implement the political portion of Minsk agreements, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov said on Monday in an interview with Mir TV Channel.
"We are highly concerned of the status of Minsk agreements implementation, primarily as a result of sabotage of Ukrainian authorities," Lavrov said. "Examples of that are numerous," the minister said.
"We are highly concerned of the status of Minsk agreements implementation, primarily as a result of sabotage of Ukrainian authorities," Lavrov said. "Examples of that are numerous," the minister said.
"This
pertains to complete sabotaging of the political process and arranging armed
provocations on the contact line on the regular basis, to have a reason not to
perform the political component of the package of measures approved in
Minsk," the Russian foreign minister said. "Plenty of facts exist in
this regard, particularly in reports of the OSCE special monitoring
mission," he added.
Nothing
more meaningful than Minsk agreements for settlement in Ukraine can be managed
to be developed now, Lavrov said. "President [Vladimir] Putin stressed,
just like Chancellor [Angela] Merkel did, by the way, that we do not see an
alternative to Minsk agreements," the minister said.
"Therefore
our common line is to continue working within the Normandy Format - at the
level of leaders, at the level of ministers, at the level of experts, and
certainly within the framework of the Contract Group, where Kiev authorities
and representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk are present along with
representatives of Russia and OSCE," Lavrov added.
Source:
ITAR-TASS 08-05-2017
