thu 24 dec 2015, 17:37

Ukraine-agreement of Minsk is still current

MOSCOW –

The international agreement of Minsk, the battle in the east of Ukraine have cast a spell, continues to take effect as of 2016. The reason is simple; the agreement is still not completely complied with. This stressed the Russian deputy Foreign minister Grigory Karasin on Thursday against the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

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The minister also urged the signatories of the agreement on concrete action to address all aspects of the agreement to perform. The agreement was mid-February in the belarusian capital Minsk concluded by Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France. It is a kind of ‘roadmap’ of the twelve steps to peace in the region of Donbass, a Russian-speaking mijnbouwstreek in the east of Ukraine.

There broke in 2014 a civil war between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian army, which is backed by ultra-nationalist militias. The Minsk agreement has in each case led to the fact that in the course of this year, the fighting in the Donbass almost ceased.