In Kiev are afraid of the elections

In Kiev are afraid of the elections in the Donbass will put an end to the return of the territories

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The situation in Ukraine. July 2016 (684)

19:02 07/23/2016

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KIEV, July 23 -. RIA Novosti Deputy Minister of Ukraine for the occupied territories George Tuck believes that before the elections in the Donbass have to go a long way still, the people's will can only be the finish line in terms of the return of Kiev uncontrolled territories.

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The DNI appointed election date

He recalled that the government is now draw up a national strategy in a document with temporarily occupied territories and the return of Donbass.The official said that the first and absolute point of this strategy is the cease-fire, then we are talking about the return of relations between the population (there are several components - humanitarian, transport, economic), then with the help of international organizations provides for a gradual return of the Ukrainian government (until the elections).

"What is the fundamental difference between the views of the Ukrainian authorities and the interests of the Kremlin - to have elections in the Donbass is the finish, and we are trying all the time to impose start begins with a choice -. No, we will end up with the elections, and not to start before the elections should be just quite a long way ", - said Tuck the TV channel" 112 Ukraine "on Saturday.

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Carpenter described the conditions under which it is ready to meet with Savchenko

Holding local elections in the Donbass - one of the key stages of settlement of the conflict in Ukraine in accordance with the Minsk agreements. Authorities LNR and DNR had planned to hold elections in the autumn of 2015. In October 2015, after a meeting of "Norman Quartet" (France, Germany, the Russian Federation and Ukraine) in Paris, the authorities of republics agreed to postpone the local elections. During this time, the Ukrainian authorities were obliged to fulfill all their commitments under the Minsk Agreement commitment: to provide the Donbas special status to avoid prosecution and punishment of participants in the events on the territory of the DNR and LC, as well as to adopt the amendments to the Constitution in the new, harmonized with the breakaway republics edition.

Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the Ukrainian domestic conflict and is not implicated in the events in the south-east, is interested in the fact that Ukraine has overcome the political and economic crisis.

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