Minsk agreements do not provide Donbass with expanded political rights, expert
Kyiv, September 11 (PolitNavigator, Kirill Boyarin) – The Minsk agreements are written in such a way that they do not imply granting Donbass the status of a republic.
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Political scientist Vadim Karasev told Navigator about this, commenting on Petro Poroshenko’s words about the preparation of a law on a special regime for territories occupied by pro-Russian rebels.
“As for Poroshenko, his statements are completely in line with the protocol decision of the Minsk Contact Group on a ceasefire and the onset of a truce, one of the points of which concerns the special status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and not the republics, within Ukraine. What kind of special status this is is the subject of further negotiations, but the main position has been fixed - this is the territorial integrity of the country and specifically the region, and not the republic within the integral Ukraine. Obviously, this status will concern more expanded economic rights and their linkage to the market of the countries of the Customs Union. On the other hand, this will also apply to humanitarian, social and cultural rights. These are social security, education, healthcare, language standards, special status of the Russian language, and so on. But this list does not include political rights, since expanded political rights would presuppose some kind of proto-statehood. This is out of the question,” comments Vadim Karasev.
Let us recall that the leader of the Russian rebels of Donbass, Igor Strelkov, called the agreements concluded in Minsk “shameful.”
According to him, at the negotiations in Minsk the militias were asked to “surrender all the gains of the uprising, to surrender them to the mercy of the Kyiv junta.” “It is simply impossible to come up with more shameful agreements than those being discussed in Minsk,” Strelkov believes.
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