Nina Gurina. Who resigned Heidi Tagliavini in the contact group on Ukrainian settlement will replace the senior Austrian diplomat, said the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier.

"Already has a name. According to my information, there has been no official announcement, for this reason, I have no right to call him. But this is an Austrian diplomat, highly qualified and high level ", - said the OSCE Secretary General in the interview to the Belarusian BelaPAN news Agency published on Tuesday.

"When will be announced the purpose is unknown, it depends on the decision of the head of the OSCE. But I think it will happen soon enough, " added Zannier.

In prosesi Thursday Austrian print edition Kurier said that in the area of the special representative of the head of the OSCE trilateral contact group agreed the candidacy of the current permanent representative of Austria to the UN Martin Sajdik.

As said Last news on the first day of the weekend-the Deputy head of Special monitoring mission of the OSCE in Ukraine Alexander hug, the conclusion about the appointment of a successor Tagliavini, the post of special representative of the head of the OSCE on settlement of the Ukraine must be taken by the government of the Serbian presidency of the OSCE.

first Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, who served as special representative of the OSCE on the settlement of the Ukraine from June 2014, announced his decision to resign from this post.

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