OSCE Council agreed on a statement in support of the Minsk Agreement – RIA Novosti

OSCE Council agreed on a statement in support of the Minsk Agreement – RIA Novosti

VIENNA, February 12 – RIA Novosti. At the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday failed to agree, especially because of the position of the Ukrainian delegation, a joint statement in support of the agreements previously signed in Minsk on Thursday , told RIA Novosti source in the OSCE.

in Minsk on Thursday ended began on Wednesday evening talks “Norman four” – the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin and Poroshenko – in Ukraine. Work on the final document, which will reduce the tension in the east of Ukraine, lasted about 16 hours. The parties agreed, in particular, the cease-fire in the Donbas from 00:00 on February 15 on the challenge of heavy weapons and the exchange of hostages.

Earlier on Thursday, Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE Andrey Kelin told RIA Novosti that the Russian delegation held consultations with its partners to develop a document that would be adopted by all 57 OSCE participating States to support the Minsk agreements.

As reported by RIA Novosti source in the OSCE Representative of Ukraine attempted to reinterpret the Minsk agreement and extend the project brief statement supplementary provisions.

“This is, of course, did not work, was not supported even in the delegations of Turkey and Germany, not to mention mention the Serbian presidency and Russia “, – said the source.

As a result, at a meeting of the Permanent Council, which was held, as usual, behind closed doors, sounded positive evaluation of the Minsk agreement from the delegations of France, Germany, Turkey, who described the agreement as an important window of opportunity to resolve the crisis in Ukraine and around it. Thus the representative of the United States made quite strongly, only briefly mentioning about Minsk agreement in line with the relevant application of US State Department, told RIA Novosti source in the OSCE.

“The representative of Ukraine broadly interpreted Minsk agreement priplyusovyvaya them September agreement in which it came to the OSCE monitoring on the Russian-Ukrainian border, about which nothing is said in Minsk documents agreed on Thursday, “- a spokesman said.