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"contradiction of the accord" (none / 1)

Minsk Protocol, 2014 full text
#9
Participant of the Trilateral Contact Group:

OSCE Ambassador Heidi Talyavini (signed)
Second President of Ukraine, L.D. Kuchma (signed)
Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, M.Y. Zurabov (signed)
A.V. Zakharchenko (signed)
I.V. Plotnitskiy (signed)

Minsk Agreement, 2015 full text
#11, #12
Participants of the Trilateral Contact Group:

OSCE Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini
Second President of Ukraine, L.D. Kuchma
Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, M.Y. Zurabov
A.V. Zakharchenko
I.V. Plotnitskiy

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Neither EU, DE, FR, or USA were parties to the agreement or Trilateral Contact Group in any way other than its sabotage.

by Cat on Mon Jan 2nd, 2023 at 07:31:15 PM EST
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Re: "contradiction of the accord" (none / 1)

Based on the Law of Ukraine "On interim local self-government order in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions", questions related to local elections will be discussed and agreed upon with representatives of certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the
framework of the Trilateral Contact Group. Elections will be held in accordance with relevant OSCE standards and monitored by OSCE/ODIHR.

Didn't happen. (At the risk of repeating myself,) the Donetsk and Lugansk juntas held elections outside this agreed process.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Jan 3rd, 2023 at 04:08:55 PM EST
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Was there ever a Law of Ukraine "On interim local self-government order in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions", to base the dialogue on?

by fjallstrom on Fri Jan 13th, 2023 at 01:11:16 PM EST
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Yes, passed in 2014.
It was even extended for a year by Kyiv in 2019, for what that's worth... trying to keep the Minsk agreements alive.
Wikipedia

While the 2015 Ukrainian local elections had been scheduled for 25 October, DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko issued a decree on 2 July that ordered local DPR elections to be held on 18 October.[77] He said that this action was "in accordance with the Minsk agreements".[78] According to Zakharchenko, this move meant that the DPR had "independently started to implement the Minsk agreements".[78] Zakharchenko said that the elections would "take place 'on the basis of Ukraine's law on temporary self-rule status of individual districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions', in so far as they are not at variance with the constitution and laws of the DPR".[78]
On the same day, President Petro Poroshenko responded that if DPR elections went forward in this unilateral manner, it would be "extremely irresponsible and will have devastating consequences for the process of deescalation of tension in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions".[78] In addition, the OSCE said that it would only send observers to elections in the conflict zone if Ukraine invited it to do so.[79] As specified in Minsk II, local elections in DPR and LPR-held territories must be observed by the OSCE to be deemed legitimate.[39] LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky followed the DPR by scheduling elections in the territory that he controlled for 1 November 2015.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Fri Jan 13th, 2023 at 03:02:26 PM EST
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