Lavrov: Kiev Minsk impede the implementation of agreements for the settlement of Ukrainian crisis

Accused the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Kiev authorities of obstructing the implementation of the agreements Minsk and try to avoid political reforms.

Lavrov said, at a joint press conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia Marjalao in Moscow, on Tuesday, quoted by the channel "Russia Today", "The Kiev authorities refuse to set up committees to work, a item which was agreed upon quad Norman, and rejects as well as to reach an agreement with Donetsk, Lugansk about the holding of local elections. "

"The Kiev as well as trying to hinder the work of the Contact Group for the settlement of the tripartite Ukrainian crisis in an attempt to discredit the implementation of items of military agreements and thus avoid political reforms."

Lavrov pointed out that the European Union countries and the United States able to impose sanctions on the Kiev authorities to force it to implement what has been reached, calling for the need to implement the agreements Minsk procedures.

The Russian minister said that Spain agrees with Moscow on the inability to solve the Ukrainian crisis by force and that political dialogue is an acceptable solution.

For his part, Spanish Foreign Minister pointed out that the European Union and Russia should be allies, not rivals, calling for a return to the strategic partnership between the two sides.

"I must offer a wider framework that allows a return to strategic cooperation, which connected Russia and the European Union for a long time", stressing that it can not be the reconstruction of Ukraine without Russia's participation.