The Commissioner of Kiev in the tripartite contact group on the resolution of the conflict situation in the Donbass, the ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma arrived in Minsk on dialogues, said Last news a source close to negotiations.

Regular dialogues of the contact group will be held on Tuesday in Minsk, scheduled to start at 16. 00 (same as GMT). It is anticipated that for the first time will attend the new special representative of the head of the OSCE Martin Sajdik, which was succeeded by the Swiss politician Heidi Tagliavini.

"Leonid Kuchma arrived in Minsk ", - said the head of the Department.

The previous meeting of the trilateral contact group and its subgroups in Minsk a week ago. According to the results of the negotiations Authorized Donbass stressed the progress in obgovarivaya issues, for example, spoke about reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of weapons with a calibre of not more than 100 millimetres, but expressed dissatisfaction with the progress in negotiations.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.

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