The “Normandy Format” was created in June 2014 when the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine met within the framework of the events related to the 70th anniversary of the deployment of troops in Normandy by the Allied Forces. [...] For 2 instance, in the second point of the agreement which talks about the separation of the forces of the opposing sides, only the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the paramilitary units of certain regions of the Luhansk and the Donetsk districts are mentio. [...] The parties to the dialogue are not mentioned in the agreement but the signatories of the Minsk II agreement are the leaders of the occupied Luhansk and Donetsk districts. [...] Hence, by holding the elections, it becomes possible to establish the legitimacy of the regimes which exist there and this will hinder the full-scale regulation of the conflict rather than assist it; The 11th point is concerned with the implementation of constitutional reform in Ukraine where the country’s decentralization, including the adoption of standing legislation regarding the special sta. [...] The modernization of the Minsk agreement and the inclusion of new actors in the face of the US, Canada and Great Britain is regarded as one option as the president of Ukraine himself stated in an interview with the Financial Times.
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