The Ukraine cease-fire agreement signed Thursday in Minsk shares many of the features of the cease-fire accord reached in the Belarusian capital last September. That accord ended up being violated more than observed. The new agreement could be undermined by provisions that are all its own.
The September’s agreement called for “permanent monitoring of the Ukrainian-Russian state border and verification by the OSCE (Organizations for Security and Cooperation in Europe) with the establishment of a security zone in the border regions of Ukraine and the Russian Federation.”
The new agreement states that “full control” over Ukraine’s border with Russia must be restored …read more
Source: Voice of America
