It is necessary to hold negotiations on the issue of issuing Russian passports in the temporarily occupied territories, said secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov.
“Some 630,000 passports that the Russian Federation as ‘ausweis’ issued to those citizens who are in the temporarily occupied territories now, in the reservation created by the Russian Federation, is a reason to start negotiations on what to do about it. Since holding elections in this form, when a person has a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, this is such an amazing, let’s say, situation,” Danilov said at a briefing following the NSDC meeting on June 18.
He also noted that the Minsk agreements are in need of modernization.
“The issue of the implementation of the Minsk agreements, which were signed, God knows when. There is an understanding that in the form in which they are now, they cannot be fulfilled today, because a certain period of time has passed, many things have changed,” the NSDC secretary added.
