NATO secretary general accuses militants and Russia of violating Minsk agreements

12:09, 02.12.2014 1 min read

Members of illegal armed groups operating in eastern Ukraine and Russia still do not comply with the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said.

"The government in Ukraine has really made strong efforts to implement the different provisions within the Minsk agreements. The problem has been that the separatists and Russia are not respecting the Minsk agreements. The ceasefire is violated and for instance the Minsk agreements, which state that we should have monitoring of the international recognized borders of Ukraine, have not been possible to implement, because the work of those who are responsible for monitoring the borders has been severely undermined," he said on Tuesday before a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of foreign ministers.

He added that on Tuesday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin would inform colleagues from NATO countries through a videoconference about Kyiv's political priorities.