KIEV, Dec 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said yesterday that, Kiev is ready to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to end the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
“We even wrote 10 steps on how to get it done very quickly. It is a complex document. It is 10 steps involving the Normandy format and the USA,” Zelensky said, during a meeting with Ukrainian diplomats, in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Kiev has already submitted the 10-step plan on implementing the Minsk agreements to the United States, France, Germany and Russia, Zelensky said.
At the same time, Zelensky expressed his readiness to negotiate with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to resolve the conflict in Donbas.
The Minsk agreements, reached in Sept, 2014, and Feb, 2015, respectively, outline the steps needed to end the conflict between government troops and armed groups in Donbas, which has left some 14,000 dead, since Apr, 2014.
The documents envisage a ceasefire, a withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the demarcation line, a prisoner exchange and local elections, among other measures.
