The countries of the "Norman format" did not sign their Minsk agreements, because they did not have confidence in their proper implementation.

This in an interview with the Facts said the former president of Ukraine, the representative of Ukraine in the Tripartite Contact Group in Minsk Leonid Kuchma.

"We often give out what we want for reality. But in life it does not happen like this. Especially in international relations. It is worth recalling the effectiveness of such formats to address the problems of Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia and other. "Woz" of these problems has not yet moved from the place.

Pay attention - in all post-Soviet conflicts the decisive word is for Russia. And now I want to ask you a question: why are Minsk signatures signed by the members of the Tripartite contact group, and not by the representatives of the "Norman format"? Not because they did not have the confidence that these agreements would be implemented? Of course, with the exception of Ukraine. Although we must pay tribute to the fact that due to these agreements, full-scale military operations were stopped, "he said..