“I think this is a rather unreasoned statement. He should not have come out with such a statement now,” he told TASS, adding however that the Russian side did not plan to raise this issue in contact with Ban Ki-moon.
The Russian diplomat expressed concern that the secretary general’s words would be used by Kiev to whip up tensions around this situation. “It will be very deplorable and dangerous if this statement is somehow used by the Ukrainian “party of war” to provoke the situation in eastern Ukraine. It will be the most regretful thing,” he said.
On Wednesday, the United Nations secretary general came out with a statement where he expressed regret over plans to hold elections of local authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics on November 2. He said such elections ran counter to the Minsk protocol and memorandum.
Shortly after that, the Russian foreign ministry said that “the militias’ position on elections on November 2 was absolutely legitimate and complied with the time parameters agreed in Minsk agreements.”
Meanwhile, the mass media that provided footage of Ban’s statement, said in their comment that he had called to reject plans to hold elections in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, despite the fact that the text of the Communiqué had no such words.http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/757258
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Moskau kritisiert Ablehnung von Separatisten-Wahlen ...
ReplyDeleteVerhärtete Fronten: Äußerst verärgert zeigt sich Russland über die breite Kritik an den geplanten Kommunalwahlen der Separatisten in der Ostukraine. Das Land stellt deswegen das Waffenstillstandsabkommen infrage.
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The self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DPR and LPR) will not return control over portions of the border with Russia to Kiev, DPR and LPR representatives said in a statement Thursday....
ReplyDelete"Ukraine demands that we give it back control over some portions of the border with Russia. We will only agree to international monitoring of the border sections [currently under our control]," the statement says.
According to DPR and LPR, Kiev has not fulfilled a number of Minsk agreements, and the republics are calling on the OSCE and Russia to ensure their fulfillment.
"We request that the Russian Federation and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe [OSCE] adopt urgent political and economic measures aimed at making Ukraine fulfill the September 5 Minsk protocol," the statement said.
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Europe won't recognize vote in eastern Ukraine, Merkel tells Putin ...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone that Sunday's planned elections in eastern Ukraine were illegitimate and would not be recognized by European leaders, a Berlin government spokesman said on Friday.
Merkel and Putin held a joint telephone conversation with French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Merkel's spokesman Georg Streiter said at a government news conference.
He said in the call there were diverging opinions on Sunday's "so-called elections" in the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk..............http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/31/us-ukraine-crisis-merkel-putin-idUSKBN0IK15620141031?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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