The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed hope that the conference contact group will provide an opportunity to create the next steps in the implementation of the Minsk agreement, informs the press service of the President on Wednesday.
"The sides also expressed the hope that the tripartite liaison group will provide an opportunity to carry out the following steps on implementation of the Minsk agreement," reads the report.
Wednesday will host a teleconference of the contact group in Ukraine, where it is assumed to be studied problem of the exchange of prisoners and de-escalate the conflict.
The last of these online Talks, during which they discussed the proposals in quantitative and personal composition of thematic subgroups contact group to resolve political issues of settlement, passed in mid-March. The parties Then could not come to a consensus about the date of the face-to-face meeting for the signing of the interim document by subgroups.
in Minsk on 12 February passed dialogues leaders "channel four" (Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine). At the same time was the meeting of the contact group for a settlement of the situation in the East of Ukraine, culminating in the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. According to the document, Kiev must end the economic blockade of Donbass, to carry out constitutional reform, involving decentralization, and to coordinate with the DNR and LC the law on the special status of the region. DNR and LC posted a message about the fact that offer to Kiev to make a joint working group on reform of the Constitution of Ukraine.
dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, came amid a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have taken a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.
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