Wesson, de PCR ;
Looking at the deal
itself, it is set up to fail. The only
parties to the deal who had to sign it are
the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk
break-away republics. The other signers to
the Minsk deal are an OSCE representative
which is the European group that is supposed
to monitor the withdrawal of heavy weapons
by both sides, a former Ukrainian president
Viktor Kuchma, and the Russian ambassador in
Kiev. Neither the German chancellor nor the
French, Ukrainian, and Russian presidents
who brokered the deal had to sign it.
