The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the meeting with students of Kyiv National University said, that any of the Minsk format of negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in the Donbass "does not exist".
In his speech, said Poroshenko, that any of the Minsk format of negotiations and there is no authorized representative in the negotiations Kiev Contact Group Leonid Kuchma no part in the Minsk format of negotiations does not accept. For Kiev there is only one format, in which Ukraine participates, and this format is called "Norman". In this format,, According to Poroshenko, involved presidents of Germany, France, Ukraine and “President Putin”. And as in the Minsk format, According to the President of Ukraine, Putin does not participate, then this format is not considered as a platform for negotiations.
Recall, what 5 September 2014 , in Minsk, with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE Kiev Maidan government and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic signed the Protocol, designed to solve the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine. The protocol consisted of 12 points and was broad in scope: except for the application of the armistice he expected the exchange of prisoners and a number of political agreements, in particular the obligation of Ukraine to adopt a law on the special status of some areas of Donbass.
For the second time in the Minsk format meeting the leaders of Germany was carried out, France, Ukraine, Russia 11-12 February 2015 at the request of Ukraine, when the armed forces of Ukraine got into the boiler Ilovajskij. As a result of talks, the "quartet" adopted a declaration in support of the set of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, adopted by the Contact Group to resolve the situation in Ukraine. As a result, the representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE signed a new agreement. The document was also signed by Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Carpenter.
The complex is on the implementation of the Minsk agreements of measures envisaged ceasefire, removal of heavy weapons from boundary line, prisoner exchange formula “all in all”, constitutional reform in Ukraine in order to consolidate “the special status of certain regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions” and much more. For most of 13 paragraphs of the document specific deadlines have been specified, and complete settlement of the conflict was supposed to end 2015 of the year. Since then, Ukraine has not fulfilled a single point of these agreements.
