"We are also ready to provide any help, any support, including in cooperation with the OSCE [The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe], to ensure that if these elections are held, they will take place in an absolutely safe environment," Andrej Plenkovic said at a meeting of the European Parliament lawmakers with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.
He added that the European Parliament was also ready to contribute to safety of all the participants of the elections.
In February 2015, a peace agreement was signed between Ukraine’s conflicting sides in Minsk. The law on holding elections in the breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions was one of the cornerstones of the Minsk deal, which was agreed by Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine.
