Minsk Agreement, 2014
The Ukraine crisis started after Ukrainian revolution, in
which people came on streets. Ukrainian revolution has its genesis Ukraine
joining European Union. Whole conflict started with Russia annexing the Crimean
region of Ukraine. New government’s anti-Russia action’s also helped in forming
public opinion in reions which are dominated by Russian speaking population. The
conflict in eastern Ukraine began in April 2014 with fighting between the
Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatist rebels. These rebels seized
some towns like Sloviansk and Donetsk which are dominated by Russian speaking
population. It has since escalated to outright-if-undeclared war between Russia
and Ukraine.
New government in Ukraine came with a promise that it will
end the conflict in weeks, is not able to achieve its objective. Fighting
between the government and rebels is happening for months and it is not near to
an end. During this period of fighting one commercial airplane was shot down in
the region which led to the death of 280 people. Although both rebels and
government blame each other for this but need for cease fire was felt by all
world.
In order to achieve the objective of ceasefire for east
Ukraine and bring the region out conflict a conference has been organised in
Minsk between Ukrainiangovernment representatives and separatist leaders.This
agreement came in the presence of officials from Russia and the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Representatives of Ukraine, the
Russian Federation, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), and the Lugansk
People’s Republic (LPR) were the parties to the agreement signed in the Minsk,
it is an agreement to halt the war in the Donbass region of Ukraine.
Trilateral contact group composed of representatives from Ukraine, Russian
Federation and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, agreed to
take following steps to end the violence in the region:
