Kiev, Moscow still far from solving Ukraine crisis: Ukrainian FM
Xinhua, November 16, 2016 Adjust font size:
Kiev and Moscow still have different positions on a roadmap to implement the Minsk agreement aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said Wednesday.
"As for now, we do not have a common vision, a shared vision on the roadmap with Russia," Klimkin told reporters.
Security issues and the modality of local elections in eastern Ukraine remain the main sticking points in the negotiations, the minister said.
The next meeting of foreign ministers of the Normandy Four could be held at the end of this month, Klimkin said, adding that the exact date has not been determined.
The Normandy format is a diplomatic group composed of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France set up to resolve the Ukraine crisis in accordance with the peace agreement reached in Minsk, capital of Belarus, in February 2015.
The armed conflict between government troops and pro-independence insurgents in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has been raging since April 2014, claiming the lives of more than 9,600 people. Endi