Zelensky's office confirmed that Ukraine does not intend to implement the Minsk agreements
Ukraine does not regard the Minsk Agreements as a binding document, and therefore allows its interpretation in its own way.
This was stated on the air of the Feigin Live internet channel by the speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Oleksiy Arestovych, a correspondent for PolitNavigator reports.
According to Arestovich, the UN Security Council, when adopting a resolution in support of the Minsk agreements in 2015, did not make them mandatory, but only supported the document.
“From the point of view of the proposals that the Russian Federation makes, we have not seen them. We only hear individual interpretations. These interpretations offer both cultural autonomy, and the possibility of cross-border special communication with the Russian Federation, and our own courts, and independent security forces, which, naturally, we cannot do and will never do, and this remains the subject of interpretation,” Arestovich said.
“They are written out in such a way, these “Minsk agreements”, that, starting with their status, they are not a binding international legal document, because what the Russian leadership likes to refer to is their binding nature after the statement of the UN Security Council, ibid. in the English version - “we welcome and approve.” This is a non-binding formula, at least that’s how we and our lawyers interpret it,” noted the Ukrainian representative.
“The Ukrainian side considers them a non-binding document, for failure to comply with which there are no international legal consequences, and this is the voluntary will of the parties. We agreed that this is the road map. And since this is good will, since it is not binding, it means that any point can be changed and interpreted, and it is necessary to find commonality in the interpretation. Here again, the will of the parties is needed, we absolutely do not see it,” Arestovich said.
Zelensky's office confirmed that Ukraine has no intention of implementing the Minsk agreements.