Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Ukraine’s calls for an urgent meeting in the “Normandy format” in case of non-observance of the Minsk agreements are foreign policy schizophrenia. In his opinion, the laws adopted by Kiev put an end to the Minsk agreements on Donbass.
The Normandy Four or the Normandy Format is a group of leaders from Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France to resolve the situation in eastern Ukraine.
“The Normandy format must carry out the work entrusted to it by the leaders of the four states, this means creating conditions for the concrete implementation in their entirety and consistency of the Minsk agreements,” Mr. Lavrov said at a press conference. Affairs calls for a meeting in the “Normandy format” as soon as possible, while other members of the Ukrainian leadership declare that they will not fulfill these agreements, such a split in consciousness, foreign policy schizophrenia is observed. “
The minister added that a number of new Ukrainian laws – in particular, banning the use of the Russian language – directly violate the Minsk agreements. “Also (he puts an end to the Minsk agreements. – “B”) the law, which is being discussed in the Verkhovna Rada, concerning amnesties, the special status of Donbass and the special procedure for organizing elections there, ”added Mr. Lavrov.
The Ukrainian side often tries to initiate urgent negotiations in the “Normandy format” and involve other countries in the settlement of the Donbas conflict. On September 1, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his American counterpart Joe Biden. After the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina said that the settlement in Donbass would be discussed in a “wider format”.
Read more about the meeting of Messrs. Biden and Zelensky in the material of Kommersant, “My NATO is on the edge.”
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