Statement by Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, on occasion of fourth anniversary of signing of “Package of Measures for Implementation of Minsk Agreements”

KYIV, 12 February 2019 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, issued today the following statement:

“Today, we mark the fourth anniversary of the “Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements”. Endorsed together with the Normandy Four Declaration of 12 February 2015 by the UN Security Council, this document – as well as the “Minsk Protocol” and the “Minsk Memorandum” of September 2014 – is the basis for the current work of the Trilateral Contact Group in seeking a peaceful resolution of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Unfortunately, despite unanimous re-commitments to the Minsk Agreements, a solution to the conflict has not yet come nearer. In the region, confrontations are still ongoing, causing suffering to the civilian population and losses of human lives although their number was considerably reduced in the course of last year.

I am convinced that the only way to the peaceful resolution of the conflict in eastern Ukraine is the full and comprehensive implementation of the Minsk Agreements by all sides of the conflict. I once again call on them to display all targeted efforts in this direction.”