The contact group in Ukraine at a meeting in Minsk on Tuesday to discuss the proposal of the Russian Federation on the establishment of the Donbass perimeter, free not only from the heavy weapons, but also from the departments of militia and security forces, said Last news source in the Russian delegation to the OSCE.
"the story is about an earlier proposal by Russia that the conclusion that as far as possible away from the contact line as militia troops and Ukrainian with weapons of power, and even better to put them in the barracks," said the head of the Department.
He explained that in Minsk arrangements from September 2014 talked about the challenge of the only heavy weapons, and the question of the withdrawal of troops was not prescribed.
"Our idea was to withdraw the troops and to leave a certain area only lightly armed law enforcement officers, not more than that, and the rest of the army must be withdrawn," said the diplomat.
He noted that the Russian Federation could not take on their own shoulders the function of monitoring the implementation of this plan, if the issue is agreed." as long as only discusses the question about how the OSCE will keep under control the breeding of arms, " said the head of the Department. He noted that this proposal is as under negotiation and is expected to be processed on the paper ", in which the proposal may undergo correction.
However, the head of the Department noticed that the Russian proposal the story is about the creation of the demilitarized zone, greater, instead of the depth of fifteen miles in each direction from the contact line, is the distance that involve the discharge of heavy weapons Minsk consensus.
The leaders of the "channel four" (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France) have agreed to meet on Wednesday in Minsk to discuss ways to resolve the conflict in the Donbass. The contact group (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE, Authorized self-proclaimed DND and LNR) should prepare on Tuesday, the rules and the content of this summit.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were more than 5, 5 thousands of civilians. Hand many times attempted to come to a consensus with the mediation of the Russian Federation and the OSCE. In the autumn of this has led to a continuous reduction of the intensity of the fire, But after the new year holidays the situation again deteriorated.
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