Russia: The West obstructed the implementation of the Minsk agreements

Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said at the UN Security Council meeting that if the Ukrainian government had implemented the Minsk peace agreements, the current conflicts in the country would have been prevented. was taken and the responsibility for this incident lies on the shoulders of the West and its provocative approach.

Kiev authorities in early April 2014 carried out a large-scale military operation in the eastern regions of Ukraine, which at that time demanded federalization. They were in this country, they started. In early September of the same year, with the direct mediation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the authorities of Kyiv and the Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (in eastern Ukraine) signed a peace agreement in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, according to which a ceasefire regime was established in the conflict areas, but in In the following months, the parties repeatedly accused each other of violating this regime. Following the negotiations to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine, several rounds were held under the title “Contact Group” and led to the signing of a series of measures to implement the Minsk Agreements (Minsk-2) on February 12, 2015; The Minsk-2 agreement consisted of 13 parts, including a ceasefire in Donbass, withdrawal of heavy weapons from the border line between Kyiv security forces and militias, as well as other measures for a long-term political settlement of the situation in Donbass.

Nebenzia gave a speech at the UN Security Council meeting on the anniversary of the signing of the Minsk-2 agreements about these agreements and the role of America in the failure of its implementation and said: “As Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, the former leaders of Germany and France and Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, also revealed that neither Kiev nor the guarantors of Minsk, including France, Germany and Poland, intended to implement these agreements and used the break that was created to arm the Ukrainian army and prepare it for war with Russia. “

Nebenzia emphasized that the “only chance” of establishing peace in Ukraine was for Kiev to implement the Minsk agreements in good faith and continuously.

He also said that the UN Security Council failed to prevent war in Ukraine.

Nebenzia noted: “If they had implemented the Minsk agreements, the tragedy that It is happening in Ukraine today, it was not happening; A tragedy in which America and the West are complicit. They are trying to achieve their geopolitical goals at the cost of losing Ukraine and its citizens.”

Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, responded to Moscow’s request for a meeting on Sunday. The UN Security Council made an announcement regarding the Minsk Agreements on the anniversary of the adoption of these agreements on February 12 (Monday). On the morning of Monday, February 12, in accordance with the anniversary of the adoption of the Minsk Agreements package, we raised the issue to remind our colleagues what a historic chance for a peaceful solution to the internal crisis in Ukraine has been lost.”

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