No signals on Kyiv's readiness to sign agreement on withdrawal of arms smaller than 100 mm in caliber - LPR envoy
MOSCOW. July 29 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) has not received signals on the readiness of Ukraine to sign a document on the withdrawal of arms smaller than 100 mm in caliber at a Contact Group meeting on August 3.
"On July 22 [Ukrainian President] Petro Poroshenko said that he ordered his representatives in the Contact Group to sign the document as soon as possible. After that Leonid Kuchma was to confirm that he received this order and submit the initiative on the readiness to sign the document. However, he has not done this. The two days he asked for at the last meeting of the Contact Group to consider the document has dragged on considerably. We still have not received signals from the Contact Group on Kyiv's readiness to sign the document," LPR envoy Vladislav Deinego told Interfax.
The LPR and the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) will raise the issue about whether Kyiv is ready to work with the document that has been accorded, he said.
"If we see that Kyiv agrees to work with the document that was previously accorded, then further procedure - initialing and signing - can be decided," Deinego said.
DPR and LPR heads will sign the document, Deinego said. "However, of course, they will not go to Minsk to wait and see whether Kuchma will agree with the text in the document or not in order to possibly sign it," he said.