MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko has described Friday the statements of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and US Vice President Joseph Biden as "inadequate" after they said that local election in Donbas scheduled for October 18 threaten the Minsk dialogue.
"The US Vice President has most likely not studied the issue thoroughly. I doubt that he has even read the Minsk Package of measures. And Poroshenko is distorting facts as usual," the Donetsk News Agency quoted Zakharchenko as saying.
"If Biden is really concerned about the future of the Minsk accords, than he should make Poroshenko and Groysman [Verkhovna Rada Speaker] implement them," Zakharchenko said. "Make them coordinate with DPR modality of elections and amendments to the constitution. Those are the requirements of Articles 4, 11, 12 of the Package of measures. It is precisely Ukraine that is running the Minsk process, avoiding dialogue and forcing upon us their unilateral unacceptable decisions. If Biden does not make Poroshenko establish dialogue, than it means that he supports him. And then the US will bear responsibility for disrupting negotiations and for the inevitable collapse of the Ukrainian statehood," the DPR head noted.
"The statements of Poroshenko and Biden that local election in DPR on October 18 threaten Minsk dialogue are inadequate," he added.
Minsk agreements on Ukraine
The Minsk accords on the Ukrainian settlement were signed on February 12, after negotiations in the so-called "Normandy format" in the Belarusian capital Minsk, bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The talks lasted for around 14 hours. Simultaneously, a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukrainian settlement was held in Minsk.
The Minsk agreements envisage ceasefire, heavy weaponry withdrawal, prisoner exchange, local elections in Donbas, constitutional reform in Ukraine and establishing working sub-groups on security, political, economy and humanitarian components of the Minsk accords.
The Ukrainian forces and the self-defense forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics have repeatedly accused each other of violating ceasefire and other points of the Minsk agreements.
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