Deputy Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic Andrey Purgin not expect a major breakthrough from the Minsk meeting of the contact group in Ukraine.
" This is the initial stage. It is unlikely that she will be able to end up with something radically bigger, " said Burgin reporters before the meeting.
" We are just beginning to seek common ground ", he added.
Meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the Ukrainian fall, which includes the Commissioners of the Russian Federation, Kiev, OSCE, and the South-East of Ukraine, will be held in Minsk after a month's break. Previously the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century, said that Moscow hopes that these dialogues will be the most important thing is dedicated to the ceasefire.
the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko 30 August said that the Meeting will be held with the participation of the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, the ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and the official envoy of the incumbent head of the OSCE on issues addressing the situation in Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini. Deputy Prime Minister DND Andrey Burgin said in an interview Last news that our negotiations will be it.
dialogues of the contact group in Ukraine took place in Minsk on 6 July, then they were held without the participation of authorised South-East of Ukraine. Negotiators were going to hold another meeting in mid-July with the participation of authorized militias in the video conference, but the Meeting never took place. The last attempt, the parties have undertaken on 31 July. In Minsk on August 26, the leaders of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the EU Commissioners until late at night discussed the situation in Ukraine and the return of the Donbass to civilian life. Following the meeting, an agreement was reached in the near future to prepare a plan to stop the fire on the East of Ukraine, and begin again the work of the contact group Ukraine-Russia-OSCE.
Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of residents of Donbas. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid April to Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded.
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