If the elections in the LDPR are postponed to 2016, the validity of the Minsk agreements will be automatically extended - until Kyiv fulfills the signed points to the extent that the Donbass is satisfied.
Russian political scientist Sergei Mikheev told PolitNavigator about this.
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“The extension of the Minsk agreements for next year is our success. Both Poroshenko and Western partners recently stated something completely different - that the agreements need to be ended now and control over the border should be transferred.
Ukraine is actually sabotaging the Minsk agreements, trying to imitate them, declaring that there should be no extension of the agreements.
There can be no serious agreements with the Ukraine we see now. Therefore, if they do not want to change now, the opportunity for negotiations must be extended.
Based on what happened in Paris, Merkel and Hollande made it clear that this was possible.
If the elections are postponed to February-March, this will automatically mean an extension of the Minsk agreements to 2016. And the negotiations will continue as long as necessary until they satisfy both sides, and not Poroshenko or the Americans.
Poroshenko looked like a victim at the meeting in Paris. Neither Merkel nor Hollande were ready to fuss with the Ukrainian position as much as before. The situation was already different,” stated Mikheev.