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April 17th, 2016 
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nsnbc : Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said the new government in Kiev will soon announce its strategy for resolving the conflict between Kiev and the rebelling Donbas republics in eastern Ukraine. The announcement came after a recent recent phone meeting between Ukrainian President Poroshenko, French President Hollande, and German Chancellor Merkel.
Klimkin told reporters that the government is preparing a document that outlines Ukrainian authorities’ strategy for resolving the conflict between Kiev and the rebelling Donbas republics. Kiev aims at reintegrating the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lughansk People’s Republic (LPR).
During a press conference on Friday, Foreign Minister Klimkin said “We will present the strategy in the coming days and this should be document with priorities and ways of achieving what we want”. Klimkin added that a new ministry that deals with the dispute has been created.
He described the initiative as an important step forward. Klimkin noted that he already had met Vadim Chernysh, the head of the new ministry, and that discussions on a wide range of related issues should take place in the near future to resolve the issues between Kiev and the Donbas region.
Klimkin stressed that elections would be held in the Donbas region as soon as security had been ensured. He added that this would be a step towards normalizing life in the region and towards re-integrating the region into Ukraine’s legal framework.
Klimkin also stressed that this would be impossible without assistance from Ukraine’s western partners, adding that “The Western partners are not just ready to help, we talk to them on what we should do and what assistance would be useful for us”. Klimkin noted that European partners visit both Kiev and the zone of military operation in Donbass to assess the situation there.
Earlier this week Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko discussed the situation in Ukraine and the conflict between Kiev and the Donbas republics with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.
It was with participation of Russia, Germany and France that Kiev and the rebelling republics reached the Minsk Accords that led to the ceasefire in Ukraine. The Minsk Accords were reached within the so-called Normandy Four format that includes Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France as well as the rebelling republics, and with the EU and OECD on the sidelines. It is noteworthy that the Minsk Accords were reached without the USA and the UK which were basically sidelined.
In their conversation with Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel underpinned that Ukrainian authorities should aim at achieving quick results in introducing reforms in the country and in implementing the Minsk Agreements. Even though few media reported it, it were Hollande and Merkel, who at the onset of the armed conflict insisted that the Ukrainian government violated Ukrainian and international law by deploying its military in the domestic dispute for anything else than for protecting civilian lives and infrastructure.
CH/L – nsnbc 17.04.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/04/17/ukraine-to-announce-plan-for-solving-donbas-dispute-after-french-and-german-pressure/
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