Ukrainian servicemen during military exercises in the Lviv region. File photoMOSCOW, Feb. 12 OSCE Chairman and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said following his visit to Ukraine that the Minsk agreements should be fully implemented. Rau discussed with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba the de-escalation of tensions and measures to achieving a peaceful solution in all formats, including in the contact group on Donbass.
"Reaffirming the chairmanship's support, Minister Rau stressed that the Minsk agreements must be fully implemented", the statement said following the chairman's visit to Ukraine.
Western politicians, including US President Joe Biden, have repeatedly spoken out in support of the Minsk agreements. Biden, following talks with the Russian President in Geneva in June 2021, said that he had agreed to support the Minsk agreements at a meeting with Putin — “we will continue diplomacy along the lines of the Minsk agreements.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later said that Biden himself at the summit in Geneva told the Russian president that he wanted to help with the implementation of the Minsk agreements on Donbass, including with the autonomous status of the region. In addition, according to Lavrov, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and CIA Director William Burns, during contacts with the Russian leadership, directly confirmed the need to implement the Minsk agreements, including the special status of Donbass.
«The target is the Russian border». Quarreling in the West over Moscow and KievOSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid welcomed Putin and Biden's statements following the Geneva summit on the need to implement the Minsk agreements to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. Back in 2015, as Vice President, Biden said during a visit to Kiev, that there is no alternative to the Minsk agreements, and only by adhering to them, it is possible to achieve a settlement of the conflict in Donbass. At the same time, he called on the parties to fulfill the obligations assumed under the Minsk agreements. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stressed in January 2022 that the Minsk agreements include a number of obvious steps that both sides must take. He stated that Ukraine has implemented or started to implement many of them, but there are some that it has not yet undertaken. support for the OSCE mission in Ukraine