13:37 26.11.2014

Tymoshenko calls on international community to recognize violation of Minsk agreements by Russia

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Tymoshenko calls on international community to recognize violation of Minsk agreements by Russia

Ukraine and the international community must recognize that Russia grossly violates the Minsk protocol, Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said.

"I am sure that Ukraine and the world must recognize that Russia grossly violates the Minsk protocol, and that it, in fact, was not and is not going to comply with them," she said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.

She recalled that her political force still insists that negotiations on the settlement of the situation in the east of Ukraine should be held in the Geneva format. These negotiations, she said, should involve representatives of the European Union, the United States, Ukraine and Russia.

On September 5, members of the Ukraine-Russia-European Union Contact Group held talks with representatives from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and signed a protocol whose central point was an agreement on immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. The document is aimed at implementing the peace plan proposed by Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and the initiatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Under the protocol, the parties agreed, in particular, to ensure the immediate bilateral ceasefire and monitoring of the ceasefire by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), to urgently release all captives and announce an amnesty for combatants in eastern Ukraine, take steps to improve the humanitarian situation and pass a law granting a special status for certain districts of the Donbas region.

The talks involved OSCE representative Heidi Tagliavini, Ukraine's second President Leonid Kuchma, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, and representatives from the self-proclaimed republics: DPR premier Zakharchenko, his deputy Andriy Purhin, and LPR premier Ihor Plotnitsky.

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