NEW YORK, December 24. /TASS/. US President-elect Donald Trump does not want a repeat of the Minsk agreements, said Keith Kellogg, who is tapped to be the special envoy for Ukraine in the incoming administration.
"We've seen peace processes happen in the past. They've tried with Ukraine and Russia and the Minsk process, and failed visibly. The president's not going to go there," he said in an interview with Fox Business. "He wants a peace that's going to be fair, it's going to be sustainable, it's going to be secure."
"He understands the importance of the relations he's got with his allies and also with [Russian President] Vladimir Putin as well," Kellogg went on to say.
He expressed hope that the US president-elect will be able to achieve a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine in a "relatively near term."
Trump previously said he was waiting for an opportunity to hold a meeting with Putin to discuss a settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
The Minsk agreements are a package of documents adopted in 2014-2015 to settle the situation in southeastern Ukraine. The conflict settlement process later stalled due to Kiev's refusal to fulfill the political part of the Minsk agreements.