Germany should increase pressure on Ukraine, member of the Bundestag believes

"The German Federal Government should increase the pressure on the Ukrainian government to ensure that it has entered into direct negotiations with the breakaway regions of Donbass,’’ a statement of the Bundestag Left faction’s deputy, a member of the parliamentary defense commission, Katrin Kunertsent, to the editor of Vestnik Kavkaza reads. In her statement Kunert comments on the German Government's response to the results a ‘small parliamentary inquiry’ of the faction ‘Left’ on the outcome of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine and the implementation of the Minsk agreements that were published recently.

"Germany’s participation in a special monitoring mission is welcomed, as well as supported by the federal government measures in the framework of the tripartite contact group, which is a central platform for dialogue between the conflicting parties. This contributed largely to the compliance with the ceasefire observed since early September," Katrin Kunert said.

"The military arsenal on both sides must be reduced urgently, and the plight of internally displaced persons and refugees to be solved. At this point in Ukraine 1.5 million people are registered as internally displaced persons. In addition, since the beginning of the armed conflict in the country more than a million people have found shelter in Russia. In that time the Russian Federation has allocated 11 billion rubles for maintenance of refugees, the state aid in Ukraine is absolutely insufficient. So, for example, the government has allocated just 716 apartments to accommodate 12 thousand internally displaced people. It is no more than a drop in the sea. The German Federal Government should urge the Ukrainian government to ensure that before winter it will have finally provided its citizens with human living conditions and basic goods, " the deputy’s statement reads further.

"For a successful political resolution the Ukrainian parties of the conflict should be seated at the negotiating table and reach a compromise. This absolutely does not imply recognition of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR. The best solution would be federal status for the self-regulating Donbass region in the framework of the Ukrainian state, which corresponds to the principles of international law. The government of Germany should work actively on progress of the issue of the status under the chairmanship of the OSCE in the next year," the member of the defense committee of the Bundestag concludes.