BERLIN, 30 Jul – RIA Novosti. Germany supports access of the OSCE mission to all the territory of Ukraine, without the observers ‘ assessment “, the agreement is not implemented,” said the foreign Minister of Germany Heiko Maas on the eve of the talks of the Normandy four in a videoconference on Thursday.
Another paragraph talks he outlined the activities of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE. He noted that France and Germany are trying to create an atmosphere for negotiations that would achieve that “incalculable”. According to him, Russia and Ukraine should do the same, because “their role is to implement the Minsk agreement”, although Moscow has repeatedly said that is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine and the Minsk agreement must be implemented Kiev and Donbass, in coordination.
“Part of this from our point of view should be to ensure that SMM OSCE could carry out work on the territory of Ukraine without any restrictions and obstacles. Without an objective assessment of the agreement is not implemented. This mutual distrust is too great,” added Maas, calling on Russia to influence the militia.
the Minister added that Berlin intends to fully implement the agreements of the summit in Normandy format in Paris, calling the recent prisoner exchange is the first step. According to him, this may serve as a basis for further advancement. Overall, he said, Berlin expects that the outcome of the talks between the Ministers will be “clear political order, so that the implementation (decisions of the Paris summit), continued in the contact group” .
As reported earlier by RIA Novosti Deputy foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko, the main issue for Russia at a video conference of foreign Ministers “Norman format” (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine) on the settlement in the Donbass will be an assessment of implementation of the leaders ‘ summit in Paris, held in November last year. As noted by the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, he foresees an important conversation at the upcoming videoconference, but don’t expect any effect on its results.
