ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) — In February 2015, a peace agreement was signed between Ukraine’s conflicting sides in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, after talks of the Normandy Four countries, comprising Russia, Germany, Ukraine and France. The deal stipulates a full ceasefire, weapons withdrawal from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, an all-for-all prisoner exchange and constitutional reforms, which would give a special status to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics.
Both sides of the conflict, however, are constantly accusing each other of violations of the ceasefire.
"Attempts to rewrite [the Minsk agreements] are unacceptable, inadmissible. We hope that our Western partners will carry out the work with Kiev, especially as the Germans and the French, and even the Americans are beginning to get tired of the whims of their wards, who signed the document and do not want to implement it," Lavrov told a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
SPIEF started at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg earlier on Thursday. The forum is taking place on June 16-18.
