Poroshenko has 3 days left
Head of the People's Council of the DPR and head of the DPR delegation at the negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin today made a statement in which he emphasized that without Kiev adopting a law on a special status (meaning the status of the so-called “separate districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions,” as the Donetsk and Lugansk republics are called in Kiev), a political settlement in the Donbass is impossible.
What's behind this statement?
On the eve of a possible vote in the Verkhovna Rada for the “Minsk bills” (the law on elections in the DPR and LPR, on amnesty, decentralization), Donetsk wants to warn Kiev so that, firstly, it does not forget to coordinate with the republics, as required by Minsk-2, these same bills, and, secondly, in this “Minsk package” I did not forget to adopt a law, also agreed upon with the DPR and LPR, on a special status.
If there is no such agreement, then Donetsk and Lugansk will never recognize these laws, since the method of their adoption contradicts Minsk-2.
Minsk-2 will also not be considered completed unless a law on a special status is adopted.
Let me remind you that Kerry recently visited Kyiv, where he held negotiations with Petro Poroshenko. From the transcript of the briefing published by the State Department, it became known that “a draft law on elections in Donbass is ready and handed over to the negotiators, in addition, a number of requirements for holding an amnesty in Donbass have been developed.”
Previously, the Poroshenko administration avoided answering the question whether, at its direction, a bill on this topic was being developed. There have been discussions about this for a long time. And Kerry confirmed that yes, the draft law has been developed.
True, neither Pushilin, nor representatives of the LPR, nor in the Trilateral Contact Group heard anything about these bills, and nothing was conveyed to them.
And the deadlines are already running out.
By the way, Ukrainian nationalists in the Rada are also unhappy. They claim that Poroshenko is negotiating with the Americans behind the scenes, hoping to “bend” the parliament to ensure an effective vote.
One way or another, July 14 is the last day of the Rada meeting before leaving for the summer holidays. If the “Minsk” laws agreed upon with the DPR and LPR are not adopted before this day, this means that Kyiv has disrupted the elections in Donbass this fall, and the implementation of Minsk-2 is generally postponed to 2017.
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