The focus of experts and journalists – culminated in the dead of night Paris meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of “Norman Quartet”: Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Jean-Marc Eyraud and Pavlo Klimkin discussed the Ukrainian crisis.
The first and common that diplomats said after the meeting – the negotiations have been difficult and have not brought the desired results. Unable to reach a consensus on many issues, including, and the main thing – about the elections in the Donbass. As the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, had time to consider all aspects of the electoral process, including mandatory amnesty in the Donbass and the law on its special status. It was assumed that a specific time frame to be agreed – no later than this summer.
“Such a proposal on how to encourage on the part of our meeting today to agree on the basis of the Minsk documents to hold local elections in the Donbass in the first half – gde-to by June to July – it was made today by our German and French colleagues, we were ready to support him, but the Ukrainian side asked not to insist on this, and as a result of a consensus could not “-. said Sergey Lavrov
The heads of the ministries of foreign Affairs of the much talked about security in the Donbass. . The meeting reviewed the report of the observers, which highlights the violation of the armistice agreement and the withdrawal of the arms, and, on both sides. Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed the general view that demilitarization should continue.
In addition, until April 30 this year in cooperation with the OSCE should establish a mechanism to prevent violations of the ceasefire and the parties should exchange prisoners.
As Lavrov said today the results of these negotiations, on the phone can already discuss the leaders of “Norman Quartet”.
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