The implementation of Minsk-2 is impossible without securing the special status of Donbass - Secretary General of the Council of Europe
The implementation of the Minsk agreements is impossible without securing the special status of Donbass in the country’s constitution.
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This was stated by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland.
“In order to fully implement the Minsk agreements, it is necessary to mention this in the Constitution, then the Verkhovna Rada will be able to pass a special law that would provide a special status to Donbass,” Jagland said.
“We are not a party to the Minsk agreements. We can only advise Ukraine on what needs to be changed in the Constitution in order to implement the agreements reached during the second meeting in Minsk. In particular, under the clause on granting special status to Donbass,” he added.
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe also commented on the intention of the LPR and DPR authorities to hold local elections on the territory of the Republics on November 1 and October 18, respectively.
“How these elections will take place and how they will be organized is in the hands of the parties participating in the negotiations in Minsk,” Jagland noted.
He also emphasized that “decentralization of power is a fundamental thing for the future of Ukraine. And it must be implemented under any circumstances, despite what is happening in Donbass.”
Let us recall that on February 12 of this year, the participants of the Contact Group on resolving the situation in Donbass signed in the Belarusian capital a set of measures previously agreed upon with the heads of the Normandy Four member countries (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine) to implement the Minsk agreements.
The document provides for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact line, the beginning of a dialogue on the restoration of socio-economic ties between Kiev and Donbass, as well as reform of the Ukrainian constitution with the aim of decentralization and consolidating the “special status of certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.”
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