Meeting on November 6, in Berlin, the ministers of foreign affairs of the “Normandy” group (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine) finally acknowledged that the Minsk armistice cannot be implemented by this year’s end, as originally intended. They agreed to postpone the implementation into next year, without setting another deadline. The Russian, German and French ministers resolved that the armistice (signed on February 12, 2015) shall remain in force as long as necessary, until its “full implementation.” The Ukrainian side could hardly object to this decision, although President Petro Poroshenko had repeatedly called for the “Minsk process” to be completed in 2015, …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
