Posted on 10/02/2019 6:21:13 AM PDT by mac_truck
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced during a press conference that Ukraine has approved the Steinmeier Formula, which was the “final obstacle” to a new Normandy Format summit.
He said that the Steinmeier Formula consists of several provisions. Approving these terms assumes that a special manner of local self-governance will be implemented in several Donbas regions and that elections will be held there. The details of the implementation of this plan will be formulated during the Normandy Format summit and included in a new law on the special status.
“The temporary law on the special manner of local self-governance in the separate territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Also known as the Law on the special status of the Donbas, it is starting to apply on a permanent basis. On condition that, it is very important now, when local elections will be held there, held in accordance with the Constitution and legislation of Ukraine, and also after the OSCE has published a report that the elections took place according to OSCE standards and the international standards of democratic elections. This means there will not be and cannot be any elections at gunpoint. The border must be ours,” Zelensky said.
He added that the law on the special status of the Donbas expires on December 31, 2019, and that parliament must pass a new law.
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The Dumbas region?
Sounds like they’e already got troubles :)
YES, someone needs to make infantile jokes on the board.
And I’m just the man to do it! :)
IOW, those regions with a majority Russian population (who want to belong to Russia) will be allowed a greater measure of self-government.
Eventually, they want to unite with Russia.
WOW.
More fighting if/when that is attempted?
Also where most of the energy reserves lie
Any wonder why the globalists have taken such a high interest in controlling Ukrainian politics
I remember my first sergeant yelling at me “Private, get your donbas over here and load this truck!”
lol
“Also where most of the energy reserves lie”
It is also the heavy industrial heartland of the Ukraine, as well as a major coal mining area.
Western Ukraine is much more agricultural, Catholic, and Ukrainian speaking, with long historical ties to Poland.
Demography is destiny, as they say. In this case, not only is the ethnic Russian population high (about half), and the ethnic Ukrainian population been reduced during the war, but language has played a big role in this region as well. About half of the ethnic Ukrainians in the Donbass (DONetz River BASin) speak Russian as their first language.
They will probably end up in Russia because of it.
After five years of de-facto independence with all services cut-off and routine bombardment plus observing the circus in Kiev you’d hardly find anyone wishing any cooperation with the central government. That is why the latter doesn’t want OSCE-monitored elections. It would be a clean vote for secession and with monitors in place there won’t be room to cry fraud.
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