Minsk Peace Deal to be Implemented Without Changes - Lavrov

© AFP 2023 / Vasily MAXIMOVRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gives a speech at the 5th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow on April 27, 2016.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gives a speech at the 5th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow on April 27, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for the implementation of the Minsk agreements with the full compliance of the peace accord.

MINSK (Sputnik) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday called for the full implementation of the Minsk agreements on Ukrainian reconciliation without rewriting the logic of the peace accord.

"It [the Minsk package of measures] should be fully implemented without any deletions [from the text of the agreement] and without attempts to rewrite the logic and sequence contained therein," Lavrov said, following a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei.

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Kiev launched a special military operation in Ukraine's southeast in April 2014, after local residents refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities, which came to power as a result of what they considered to be a coup. The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DPR and LPR), established in Ukraine’s southeast after the May 2014 independence referendums, have been calling for more autonomy from Kiev.

The Minsk deal on Ukrainian reconciliation was struck in February 2015 by Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France and later signed by Kiev and the pro-independence militias in southeastern Ukraine. The deal stipulates a full ceasefire, a weapons withdrawal from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, an all-for-all prisoner exchange and constitutional reforms, which would give a special status to the DPR and LPR.

Despite the fact that the agreement was reached over a year ago, major sections remain to be completed and both sides have repeatedly reported violations of the deal.

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