Security situation in Donbas not justify absence of work over bill on elections in Donbas – Steinmeier

14:55, 23.02.2016 1 min read

Security situation in Donbas should not be a justification for no progress in preparing a draft on the elections, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter-Steinmeier said.

"The security situation should not be a justification for the absence of work over drafting the bill on the elections," he said during a joint press conference with Ukrainian and French foreign chiefs in Kyiv on Tuesday.

The minister said that they should work both over law on the elections, along with the modalities on organizing them.

According to Steinmeier, none of the items of Minsk Agreements lost its topicality for that moment and Europe still is following for consistency of their implementation.

"None of the aspects of the Minsk Agreements lost their topicality…We very thoroughly keep an eye on the consistency of certain steps of the Minsk Agreements," he said.