Angel Merkel, Francois Hollande, Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Putin met in the Norman format for the third time
Paris, on October 2, 2015, on October 2, a meeting at the top of the Norman Four was held in Paris to resolve the crisis in Ukraine: Vladimir Putin, Angel Merkel, Francois Hollande and Petro Poroshenko had not seen in this format since Minsk-2 agreements were signed. The first result was the main result of the summit at a press conference at the end of negotiations in the Champs Elysees Francois Hollande: to fulfill the Minsk agreements, the monitoring of which was planned for December, it will take more time, they will be prolonged after December 31, 2015. Therefore, it immediately becomes clear why Poroshenko has a sad and thoughtful face in most Parisian photographs, and Putin is nothing, quite satisfied with everything. Because it is Putin who in this way receives a winning additional time in a situation where Moscow clearly seeks to avoid strengthening the sanctions and, besides Ukrainian, also started the Syrian party. But there is still no consent on key political issues pointed in the Minsk agreements: control over the Russian-Ukrainian border, local elections, constitutional reform, finally, the status of the DPR-LNR, which so far are so far intended to hold the elections on October 18 and November 1. The positive for Ukraine is that it can now demand from other parties more serious guarantees of the implementation of Minsk-2.
However, one way or another, the most important thing is that shots in the Donbass are now much less common. But the main question still sounds like this: what's on the mind of the Russian president? In a recent interview with American journalist Charles Rose, all the blame for the slip for the Minsk agreements on Kyiv, who makes constitutional and other decisions on the Donbass, without coordinating them with the DPR-LNR, as required by Minsk-2. Perhaps Moscow, taking into account the Syrian events, decided to preserve the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine. But something else is possible ...
