Upcoming elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR, LPR) do not correspond with the Minsk agreements on the Donbas settlement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
KIEV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st November, 2018) Upcoming elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR, LPR) do not correspond with the Minsk agreements on the Donbas settlement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.The elections of the heads and members of the parliaments of the DPR and LPR are scheduled for November 11. The Ukrainian authorities have already stated that they would not recognize the elections' results.
"These elections do not comply with the content of the Minsk agreements," Merkel said during a joint briefing with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
She added that Kiev and Berlin were working toward a UN peacekeeping mission's deployment in Donbas to achieve peace in the region.
The conflict in Donbas started in 2014, when Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics that refused to recognize the new government in Kiev, which came to power after what they considered to be a coup. In 2015, a ceasefire agreement brokered by the leaders of the Normandy Four group (France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine) was reached in Minsk, but the situation has remained tense, with both parties accusing each other of violating the ceasefire.
