Er is al eerder een tijdelijk staakt-het-vuren in acht genomen. De laatste keer was dat begin september, bij het begin van het nieuwe schooljaar. Uiteindelijk kwam het neer op slechts één geweldloze dag, waarna de rebellen overigens wel enige tijd minder aanvallen deden dan daarvoor het geval was. Het Oekraïense leger zegt al tijden alleen maar terug te schieten als het niet anders kan.
In het overleg van de Contactgroep is volgens woordvoerster Darka Olifer van oud-president Leonid Koetsjma ook gesproken over de situatie in en rond de stad Debaltseve die vorig jaar februari in handen kwam van de pro-Russische rebellen. Koetsjma zou geëist hebben dat de rebellen teruggaan naar de frontlijn zoals die op 19 september 2014 is vastgelegd. Daarvoor zouden ze Debaltseve op moeten geven.
arka Olifer, the
spokesperson for ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma who represents
Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) at Minsk peace talks on
Donbas, says the Ukrainian side continues insisting that the contact
line agreed as of September 19, 2014, should be observed and also
demands disengagement of troops and equipment in the occupied town of
Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine.
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"On September 21, 2016, the TCG signed a Framework Decision on the
disengagement of forces and equipment in designated areas. Taking into
consideration that the ORLO (separate areas in Luhansk region) has
failed to observe the ceasefire, disengagement in the village of
Stanytsia Luhanska has not taken place yet. Four new areas are under
discussion. We insist that the contact line stipulated in a memorandum
dated September 19, 2014, should be observed and Debaltseve should be
one of the next disengagement areas. Also, [we demand] demilitarization
of the areas near the villages of Sakhanka, Kumachove, and Komsomolske
in Donetsk region's south," she wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
She also said that the TCG's achievement in the past year is that
escalation in Donbas has been contained.
Olifer also added that the TCG passed a statement on Wednesday on the
need for a comprehensive, sustainable, indefinite ceasefire pending the
Christmas and New Year holidays, starting from 00:00 Kyiv time on
December 24, 2016.
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One of the priorities in 2016 was security, she said, and the settlement
of security-related issues is a baseline for a full-fledged solution to
all other provisions sealed in the Minsk peace agreements.
A full ceasefire, the withdrawal of foreign armed formations, the
sealing of the border, adherence to Ukrainian laws and OSCE standards
are major conditions for conducting local elections in Donbas, Olifer
reiterated.
Read more on UNIAN: http://www.unian.info/politics/1691576-ukraine-at-minsk-talks-insists-on-disengagement-in-occupied-debaltseve.html
Read more on UNIAN: http://www.unian.info/politics/1691576-ukraine-at-minsk-talks-insists-on-disengagement-in-occupied-debaltseve.html
Bronnen: Unian, Ukrinform
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