KYIV. Oct 31 (Interfax) - The foreign ministers from the Vysehrad Group countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) have said the elections that the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) are planning to hold on November 2 will be illegitimate.
"The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad Group countries together with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland deplore the decision of the separatists to hold local elections in the Donbas Region on 2 November 2014," the British Foreign Office said on its website on Thursday. .
The ministers called on the parties to observe the protocol and act "towards the peaceful solution of the conflict and restoring stability based upon the full respect of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine."
"Simultaneously we call upon the Russian Federation to significantly contribute to the peaceful solution of the conflict by refusing to acknowledge such "elections". The only elections that have legitimacy in Ukraine are those held under Ukrainian law," the statement said.