{"id":151684,"date":"2021-12-08T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=151684"},"modified":"2021-12-08T20:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:54:32","slug":"explained-what-are-the-minsk-agreements-on-the-ukraine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-are-the-minsk-agreements-on-the-ukraine-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What are the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine conflict?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United States has warned Russia not to invade Ukraine and urged both countries to return to a set of <\/span><b>Minsk agreements<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed to end a separatist war by Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Minsk Agreements?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_151686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151686\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-151686 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20210417_eum959.png?resize=506%2C489&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20210417_eum959.png?w=608&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20210417_eum959.png?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Economist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minsk agreements<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were signed to stop the ongoing conflict between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukraine administration in the Donbas region of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were total 2 Minsk Agreements signed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Minsk I<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was signed by Ukraine and the Russian-backed separatists. Its provisions included prisoner exchanges, deliveries of humanitarian aid and the withdrawal of heavy weapons. However, the agreement broke down with violations by both sides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Minsk II<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was signed by Russia, Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the leaders of pro-Russian separatist regions. The agreement set out a series of military and political steps that remain unimplemented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>About Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe(OSCE) is the world\u2019s largest regional security organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and fair elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Member States:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It consists of 57 participating States from North America, Europe and Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secretariat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vienna, Austria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>Explained: What are the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine conflict?<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Indian Express on 8th December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The United States has warned Russia not to invade Ukraine and urged both countries to return to a set of Minsk agreements designed to end a separatist war by Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine. What are Minsk Agreements? Minsk agreements were signed to stop the ongoing conflict between pro-Russian separatists and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-are-the-minsk-agreements-on-the-ukraine-conflict\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What are the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine conflict?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-151684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704735259},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}