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Peace Settlement Process in Donbass Too Slow in 2016

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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the process of implementing the Minsk agreements does not move fast.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault attends a joint news conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, after a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016 - Sputnik International
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KIEV (Sputnik) – The process of peace settlement in eastern Ukraine in the framework of the Minsk agreements is too slow in 2016, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.

"We have just talked to [Ukrainian] President [Petro] Poroshenko and agreed that for past months, particularly since this February, we have carried out many negotiations – in Moscow, Kiev, Minsk and other places but honestly speaking this year the process of [implementing] the Minsk agreements turned out to be a snail and rather slow snail that does not move fast," Steinmeier said at a press conference with his Ukrainian and French counterparts.

Kiev launched a military operation in the country's east in April 2014 after the local residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions refused to recognize new Ukrainian authorities, which came to power after the coup earlier the same year.

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In February 2015, Kiev and the two regions reached a ceasefire in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. Despite the Minsk peace accords, both sides to the conflict have continued to blame each other for multiple ceasefire violations.

A new ceasefire regime came into force in Donbass on September 1. The ceasefire agreement was reached between Ukraine’s conflicting sides during a Contact Group meeting in August.

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