LUGANSK, May 13.
/TASS/. Ukraine continues to shy away from the implementation of the Minsk
agreements to resolve the conflict in the Donbass region, envoy of the Lugansk
People’s Republic (LPR) to the political subgroup of the Contact Group for
eastern Ukrainian settlement, Rodion Miroshnik said on Wednesday commenting on
the subgroup’s meeting held on Wednesday.
"Kiev’s new
representative in the political working group of the Contact Group came to
today's meeting with the position that did not differ substantially from his
predecessor’s [stance]," he wrote on his Telegram channel. According to
Miroshnik, Kiev’s envoy said at the meeting that Ukraine would not comply with
three of the 13 clauses of the Minsk agreements, specifically, the ones on
holding elections in Donbass before transferring control over the border with
Russia, enshrining the special status of Donbass in Ukraine’s Constitution and
on the coordination of laws related to the Minsk accords passed by Ukraine’s
Verkhovna Rada (parliament) with representatives of the Lugansk and Donetsk
people’s republics.
"To make sure
that the talks are effective, Kiev needs to change its stance rather than
envoys," Miroshnik noted.
Kiev’s
representatives can neither explain nor prove why they do not consider
representatives of the Donbass republics to be full-fledged participants in the
negotiations, he went on to say. Miroshnik stressed that no effective solutions
could be found without the LPR and DPR.
"It’s just more
convenient for Kiev when the war in Donbass can be presented as an
international conflict rather than an internal civil war, with Ukrainians
killing Ukrainians," he added.
Source: ITAR-TASS
13-05-2020
