DNR: videoconference of the contact group on Donbass ended
A videoconference of the contact group on settling the situation in Donbas ended, said on the last working day of the week in the press service of the envoy of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in the negotiations Denis Pushilin.
Tuesday in Minsk hosted a meeting of the contact group, on which the parties have not reached agreement on the withdrawal of weapons with a caliber not exceeding 100 millimetres and local elections in the Donbass.
"The participants ended the dialogue" - quoted Donetsk news Agency words of the messenger of the press service.
The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began almost 7, 9 thousand people. The question of resolving the situation in Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.
at the meeting of the contact group, which took place on 26 August in Minsk, the parties to the conflict agreed on the need to achieve a ceasefire in Donbas on September 1. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's September 13, summed up in practice, full compliance with the ceasefire regime in the Donbas since the end of August this year.