B: The European Union and the United States may impose new sanctions against Russia because of the Donbass – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, September 4 – RIA Novosti. The European Union and the United States are considering imposing new sanctions against Russia, wrote in a Friday newspaper “Kommersant”.

According to the publication, citing sources, new sanctions against Russia may be introduced in the event that the authorities of self-proclaimed republics of folk Donetsk and Lugansk refuse to hold local elections on October 25 – the day when they have to go through the rest of the territory of Ukraine.

“Kommersant” notes that in the West are convinced that Russia has unlimited influence on the leadership of the republics in the Donbass, and consider the refusal to hold elections on the same day Ukraine as “demonstrative” violation of the Minsk Agreement.

source publication in Western diplomatic circles say that if the DNI and the LC does not make concessions on the timing of the local elections, the West accuse them of disrupting the Minsk accords and the guilty will be assigned to Moscow. According to the newspaper, according to the Western diplomat, “Donetsk and Lugansk showed no willingness to compromise, called the election on dates different from the rest of Ukraine, and does not demonstrate a willingness to organize them in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation”.

The publication citing a source adds that the sanctions “are not an end in itself US and the EU, but if Minsk agreements will be” buried so rude manner, “the West has no choice.

In addition, the question of the terms and conditions of the local elections in Donetsk and Lugansk will be discussed at the meeting of foreign ministers, “Norman Quartet” in Minsk this week. This should be one of the key and the negotiations between the leaders of the “Quartet”, which could be held in late September in New York – in the session UN General Assembly.

The Ukrainian authorities have appointed the elections to the local authorities on 25 October. In this case, the self-proclaimed authorities LC appointed local elections on November 1, and in the DNI they must pass on 18 October. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Donetsk and Lugansk should abandon the local elections, and called for an immediate start to discuss modalities of their implementation of Ukrainian laws. The authorities of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republic repeatedly declared to hold its local elections regardless of the wishes of Kiev.

The authorities of the DNI and the LC explained that the appointment of the date of the local elections, due to the fact that Kiev has unilaterally adopted the Law ” local elections “, without coordinating it with them, which is not the Minsk agreements. According to the Minsk Agreement, local elections in Donbass should be conducted on an agreed with the breakaway republics of law and after consolidation in the constitution of the special status for the individual regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

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