Russia sees no grounds for rewriting the Minsk agreements, neither France nor Germany nor US President-elect Donald Trump’s representatives have made such proposals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during his annual press conference.
When a Ukrainian reporter asked the minister if Russia’s position on Ukraine could change after the new US administration took office, Lavrov said that “I have no intentions to rewrite the Minsk agreements. They have been enshrined in a UN Security Council resolution. I have heard neither France nor Germany propose this as members of the Normandy Quartet. Donetsk and Lugansk, as members of the Contact Group, did not propose this either. On the contrary, the world community has been repeating that there is no alternative to the Minsk agreements.”
“I haven’t heard Donald Trump’s team point to the need to bury the Minsk agreements and solve the eastern Ukraine crisis in some other way,” the Russian top diplomat added.
He noted that only Kiev had been calling for rewriting the Minsk agreements. “Indeed, Ukraine’s political circles as well as high-ranking officials have been making statements saying that no one is going to implement these agreements so they need to be rewritten and that the US needs to be included in the Normandy format,” Lavrov said.
“We have been hearing these statements for quite some time now, actually since the agreements were signed. But this is why we don’t even have to review these statements,” the Russian foreign minister concluded.
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