Kyiv, Paris and Berlin positions drastically differ from Moscow's on Minsk deal implementation

13:00, 21.10.2016 1 min read

The positions of Ukraine, Germany and France drastically differ from Russia's stance as regards the sequence of implementing the Minsk agreements and provision of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers with access to the Ukrainian-Russian border sector not controlled by Kyiv and Donbas territory, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.

"Today our positions, I mean our joint position with Germany and France, and Russia's position drastically differ both in terms of the sequence of measures and in terms of guarantees of their implementation, OSCE access to the territory of occupied Donbas and OSCE access to the uncontrolled sector of the Ukrainian-Russian border," the minister said during a government Q&A session in the Ukrainian parliament on Friday.

Ukraine's position was consistent with regard to the need to fulfill security conditions in Donbas in the first place and then switch to the political part of the agreements, he said.