Meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine continues in Minsk, the parties stopped for dinner, informs journalist Last news .
Anticipating on the last working day of the week Next round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, the OSCE, the Russian Ambassador in Kyiv Mikhail Zurabov, representing at the meeting Moscow, said that the parties " may need " a couple of hours. However, in 21. 00 Minsk time (22. 00 GMT), after two hours, the Commissioner of the foreign Ministry of Belarus said that " at the moment, the delegation stopped for dinner ".
The next round of negotiations of the contact group on Ukrainian settlement takes place As last time, in Minsk " President-hotel ", in the same format: Ukraine is ex-President Leonid Kuchma, Moscow - the Russian Ambassador in Kyiv Mikhail Zurabov, the OSCE special representative, Heidi Tagliavini.
from militias in the meeting, there are self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the Donetsk national Republic (DND) Alexander Zakharchenko, Deputy Prime Minister DND Andrey Purgin, as Well as the self-proclaimed leaders of the Luhansk national Republic (LNR): Prime Minister Igor Carpentry and Parliament - Alexei Karjakin.
Meeting of the contact group was supposed to start around 16. 00 local time (17. 00 GMT), but the start of the consultation moved several times. As told sources close to the delegation of the self-proclaimed republics, it was " no accident ". For his part, Karjakin said Last news that the meeting was not able to start on time due to late arrival of the authorized Kiev. In his vision, the Ukrainian side is late, " showing their lack of punctuality and thus they try to show their disrespect " to the militia.
As expected, the results of the meeting, the parties are obliged to submit a Memorandum, which will regulate the implementation of the agreements of the contact group from 5 September to stop the fire. The parties also discussed the question of the location of the OSCE observers on the Russian-Ukrainian border to monitor the implementation of the Minsk Protocol from 5 September.
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