Ukraine and Germany has positively considered a videoconference Minsk group
The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a telephone conversation, agreed that the tripartite conference of the contact group is a positive shift towards the fulfilment of the Minsk agreements notified on the first day of the weekend.
" The interlocutors agreed that the tripartite conference of the contact group, which took place the other day, is a positive shift towards the fulfilment of the Minsk agreements. However, the key in this case is the meeting of the contact group in order to reach the line of demarcation, to fix a road map for the withdrawal of troops and the release of the hostages, " said the report.
Also Poroshenko expressed hope that all parties will make every effort to ensure that the tripartite meeting of the contact group took place in the near future.
on the last working day of the week Authorized DND, LNR and Kiev have held meetings at which failed to agree on a date for a new round of talks in Minsk. Authorized self-proclaimed republics stressed that will require further meeting of the parties. After the conference on the last working day of the week authorized to negotiate on DND Denis Putilin said that the agenda of the Minsk meeting still needs to be improved.
broadcast Ukrainian " 5th channel " the head of the main investigation Department of the security service of Ukraine Vasily Vovk said that Skype conference contact group will continue in 22. 00 (23. 00 GMT), But Putilin on the first day of the weekend said that the Skype conference participants of the contact group in Ukraine on the last working day of the week was not renewed, no one of the parties, and the OSCE, on the relationship with him was not issued.
Brokered by Russia and the OSCE agreed in Minsk truce September 5, but was charged with one another in the violation of the agreements. On the morning of December 9, in the East of Ukraine began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE a new truce. It is planned that the ceasefire will be preceded by new talks of the contact group in Minsk