Belarus' Foreign Minister Offers To Set Up Mechanism Of Minsk Deal Monitoring, Enforcement

Belarus' Foreign Minister Offers to Set Up Mechanism of Minsk Deal Monitoring, Enforcement

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said on Monday that it was necessary to establish an efficient mechanism in order to monitor the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the conflict in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.

MINSK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 03rd September, 2018) Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said on Monday that it was necessary to establish an efficient mechanism in order to monitor the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the conflict in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.

The agreements were signed by the leaders of the Normandy Four group that comprises Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France in the Belarusian capital of Minsk in February 2015.

"I don't want to judge, who is right and who is wrong. Perhaps, it is necessary for the heads of states to meet once again and agree on what else should be done in order to create an efficient control mechanism set to monitor the Minsk agreements' implementation," Makei was quoted as saying by the tut.by news portal.

The minister went on to say that the Belarusian side had played a "huge role" in reaching the agreements.

The Belarusian side had already made suggestions on the mechanism, he added.

Makei's remark came after the recent assassination of Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). He was killed by a bomb blast in the DPR's capital of Donetsk on August 31. The explosion killed Zakharchenko's bodyguard and reportedly injured 11 people.

The DPR and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), both located in eastern Ukraine, have been in a state of an armed conflict with Kiev since 2014 when they proclaimed their independence from Ukraine, refusing to accept the new government that came to power in what the DPR and the LPR qualified as a coup. In spite of numerous attempts to settle the conflict, the warring parties continue violating the ceasefire.

According to UN estimates, the conflict has claimed over 10,000 lives.