Agreement on the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine

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The agreement on the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine is a contract signed in Kiev on February 21, 2014 . It was created in the wake of the state crisis in Ukraine , which arose from the riots during the Euromaidan .

Signatory

The contract was signed on the part of the government of Viktor Yanukovych , the President of Ukraine , and on the part of the opposition by Vitali Klitschko from the UDAR party , Oleh Tjahnybok from the All-Ukrainian Association "Svoboda" and by Arseniy Yazenjuk from the All-Ukrainian Association " Fatherland ” .

Furthermore, the Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski , the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Eric Fournier , Director of the French Foreign Ministry , signed the contract as witnesses.

In addition to Sikorski and Steinmeier, the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Vladimir Lukin, representing the Russian Federation, were also involved in the contract negotiations. Fabius did not sign the contract because he traveled to China before the contract was signed . Lukin did not sign either, but stated that this did not mean that Russia was not interested in a compromise.

Steinmeier and Sikorski had also promoted this agreement in front of representatives of the Maidan Council , and in the end the Council also approved the agreement, although the agreement was not signed by representatives of the Maidan Council.

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The signatories agreed on the following points:

  1. That within 48 hours of the signing of the treaty, a special law will be enacted, signed and promulgated that reintroduces the 2004 constitution. The signatories declare their intention to form a coalition and a government of national unity within ten days.
  2. The immediate start of work on a constitutional reform that regulates the powers of the President, the Government and the Parliament. The constitutional reform should be completed in September 2014.
  3. Early presidential elections will take place as soon as the new Constitution has been adopted, but no later than December 2014. New electoral laws will be passed and a new Central Electoral Commission will be established on the basis of proportionality and in accordance with the rules of the OSCE and Venice Commission .
  4. The joint investigation into recent acts of violence. The authorities are monitored by the opposition and the Council of Europe .
  5. The authorities will not declare a state of emergency. The authorities and the opposition will refrain from using force. Parliament will enact a third amnesty which will cover the same area of ​​illegal actions as the February 17, 2014 amnesty. Both parties will make serious efforts to normalize life in cities and villages by withdrawing from administrative and public buildings and unblocking streets, parks and squares. Illegal weapons should be handed over to the Ministry of Interior within 24 hours of the entry into force of the special law, as per point 1 of this document. After this period, all cases of illegal transport and storage of weapons will again fall under the laws of Ukraine. The authorities and the opposition will reduce the confrontation. The government will only use law enforcement officials to physically protect public buildings.
  6. The Foreign Ministers of France, Germany , Poland and the representative of the President of Russia call for an immediate end to the violence and confrontation.

Follow-up events

  • Immediately after the signing became known, the contract was rejected by many Euromaidan demonstrators and informal groups at the Maidan , who continued to demand that Yanukovych resign immediately.
  • At a meeting of Steinmeier, Fabius and Sikorski on March 31, 2014 in Weimar , a declaration was adopted calling on the Ukrainian leadership to implement the key principles of the February 21 agreement as part of their policy.
  • On September 5, the Minsk Protocol was signed, which is supposed to end the war between the separatist region of New Russia and Ukraine , which has been going on since April 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minute minutes on the situation in Ukraine: Yanukovych is said to have left Kiev. Spiegel Online , February 21, 2014, accessed May 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ A country in upheaval. FAZ , February 21, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c Kiev Agreement: Uncertainty to the End. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 22, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Yanukovych, Klitshchko, Yatseniuk, Tiahnybok sign agreement to overcome Ukrainian crisis. Interfax , February 21, 2014, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Conflicting parties in Ukraine sign agreements. TagesWoche , accessed March 12, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Steinmeier: Don't be too early about Ukraine. Deutsche Welle , February 21, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Ukrainian conflict parties sign agreement. Stern.de , February 21, 2014, archived from the original on March 26, 2014 ; Retrieved April 29, 2014 .
  8. ^ Agreement on the Settlement of Crisis in Ukraine (Final 6:45). (PDF; 74 KB) Federal Foreign Office , February 21, 2014, accessed on April 8, 2014 (English, contract text).
  9. ↑ On the Majdan: Klitschko's blackest hour. FAZ, February 22, 2014, accessed April 8, 2014 .
  10. ^ Joint declaration on Ukraine by the three foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle, Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Laurent Fabius (France), and Radosław Sikorski (Poland) in Weimar , press release by the Federal Foreign Office of March 31, 2014.