MOSCOW, May 27.
/TASS/. Moscow sees no prospects that the Minsk peace deal will be fulfilled
under new Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Director of the Center for
Current Policy Alexei Chesnakov said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda
newspaper on Monday.
"There aren’t
any prospects at all. Before assuming office he [Zelensky] had said in public
that he would not implement them," Chesnakov said commenting on the
prospects of fulfilling the Minsk agreements under Zelensky.
Zelensky emphasized
that Donbass would not obtain a special political status, the expert said,
stressing that "this is a direct and blatant refusal to meet a key and
crucial requirement of the Minsk accords." The new Ukrainian leader also
said he would not sign a law on amnesty, another important point of the deal.
Zelensky also refused to hold talks with representatives of the self-proclaimed
Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. "But the DPR and the LPR signed
all Minsk agreements, a protocol, the 2014 memorandum and the 2015 Package of
Measures, and also all documents of the Contact Group," the expert
stressed.
The expert
highlighted that the February 2015 deal envisaged the need for coordination of
all aspects of settlement with representatives of the rebel Donbass regions.
Besides, Zelensky
hinted that he is not planning to cancel the discriminatory language law, which
violates the right of Donbass citizens to speak Russian stipulated by the Minsk
agreements.
"Where are the
Minsk agreements here? What has been left out of them? He shows disrespect for
Donbass, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Germany,
France and Russia, which stopped the war and outlined the ways of settling the
problem of Ukraine’s southeast in a challenging discussion," Chesnakov
stressed.
"Moreover, after
Zelensky took up the reins, the Ukrainian army continues shelling Donbass.
Everything now is like under Poroshenko."
Source: ITAR-TASS
27-05-2019
