Kiev, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, rejected flatly today any negotiation to continue implementing the agreements of Minsk beyond 2015, which endangers these understandings as a possible solution to the conflict in Donbass.
Klimkin said to be 'absolutely against starting negotiations on the continuation of (the agreements of) Minsk', when interviewed by Channel 24 about the initiatives that Kiev will propose after the expiry in December of the deadline agreed upon in the capital of Belarus.

Earlier, the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, said that the Minsk process for seeking a settlement in Donbass (southeastern Ukraine) cannot be extended to 2016.

All provisions must be implemented in 2015, as is provided for in the agreements, stressed the millionaire-come head of state.

Poroshenko's statement contradicts reality, because several political agreements, out of the 13 signed by the representative of Kiev and the rebels on February 12th this year in Minsk, with the approval of the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine, are still pending.

One is the 'discussion on the future status of the regions of conflict', which according to Kiev will be determined after all the others are applied, and was not even included in the draft of the constitutional reform on the decentralization of power.

This controversial reform attempt is objected to by the insurgent Popular Republics of Donetsk (PDR) and Lugansk (PRL) because they were not taken into consideration for its elaboration and discussion. Another pending subject in the compliance with the armistice signed at the Belarusian capital are the 'assurances from Kiev to restore socioeconomic relations in Donbass', territory which Ukraine keeps blocked.

In this context, Kiev called to local elections on October 25th, while the rebels rejecting the authorities that seized power through the coup of February 22nd, 2014 propose carrying them out beyond the control of Kiev on October 18th (PDR) and November 1st (PRL).

Yesterday, Vladislav Deinego, representative of the insurgent PRL in the negotiations of the Contact Group for a settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, announced an initiative of the rebels to save the Minsk agreements.

At the meeting in the capital of Belarus, the two rebel territories proposed elections in Donbass on February 21st, and other actions that will make possible fulfilling the commitments made in Minsk, according to Deinego.

The project 'was written on the basis of the current legislation of Ukraine and the regulations of the Verkhovna Rada' (Ukrainian unicameral parliament), said the negotiator.

We are preparing a schedule with adequate time to facilitate implementation of each political point of the package of measures and breaking the current impasse, concluded Deinego, quoted by the Information Center of Lugansk.