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Luhansk says not worried about Poroshenko’s plans to scrap special status law

This law would not suit us anyway, the head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic’s People’s Council Alexey Karyakin says

Last week, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement stressing that the elections in the self-prcolaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics were in full compliance with the Minsk agreements. It said that the position the leaders of self-defense forces of the two republics have taken on the November 2 elections is justified and stands fully in line with the accords reached at conferences of the Contact Group for Ukraine in Minsk in September.

“All the references to the law on a special administrative regime for the aforesaid territories, which President Poroshenko signed October 16 and which set the date of elections at December 7, run counter to the Minsk accords,” the ministry said. The date, according to the ministry, was fixed unilaterally, without being agreed with the Donetsk and Luhansk militias.