Leaders of Germany, France should cause Ukraine to fulfill Minsk agreements - Purgin
MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - The DPR is hoping that a possible meeting between the heads of the "Normandy four" countries will help form ways of coming out of the deadlock situation in Donbas in regards to the non-fulfillment by Kyiv of the Minsk agreements.
"What I was talking about earlier is now happening. The ball is now on the side of the 'Normandy group'. The guarantors of the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements should intervene because the situation has deadlocked. Any political solution to come out of the current deadlock made in the negotiations in the 'Normandy format' will have a positive effect on the situation in the region," Andrei Purgin, speaker of the DPR People's Council, told Interfax.
He assumed that the meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which precedes the negotiations between the heads of the "Normandy four" countries, may be aimed at intensifying Kyiv's actions to observe the Minsk agreements.
"I don't rule out that the leaders of France and Germany in this meeting intend to explain to Poroshenko the importance of observing the Minsk agreements for European security. Ukraine is now, unfortunately, not observing these agreements. There is a need for a political solution by the guarantor countries to cause Ukraine to implement the Minsk package of measures," he said.
Some media earlier reported, citing the German Cabinet of Ministers, that Germany does not rule out a meeting between the leaders of the "Normandy four" countries after the negotiations between Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko in Berlin.