Meeting of the working subgroup on political issues of the contact group on settling the situation in the Donbass will be held on Tuesday in Minsk.

the subgroup meeting will be held according to the above schedule approved by the parties. For its part yesterday, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Belarus also said that preparing For this meeting.


The last meeting of the subgroup members on political issues took place in Minsk on 21 July at the same time with the meetings of the contact group and other subgroups. Then according to the results of the negotiations Authorized self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics have criticized the dialogue in the subgroup, characterizing it as stagnation.

"in the political work of the subgroup, there is a severe stagnation ", - told reporters the Commissioner LNR Vladislav Danego. He explained the lack of positive dynamics in the talks " extremely unconstructive position of the Ukrainian authorities.

But showed the breakaway republics hopeful that negotiators will be able to return the discussion of issues on the agenda of issues in a constructive direction." We are making efforts to return the sub-working group, and among them to force Ukraine back into the context of the Minsk agreements, " said Danego.

the political dialogues of the subgroup will be held in Minsk amid ongoing violations of the regime of silence, where the parties blame each other. Perhaps at the meeting have a heated debate on Key issues, emerging to cross the stalemate.


A key issue of political settlement in the OSCE called holding in the autumn local elections in the Donbass. Present at the previous round of talks in Minsk, the acting head of the OSCE Ivica Dacic said On the need to agree on election rules that would satisfy the conflicting parties, as well as the required presence during the election observers of the OSCE / ODIHR. Along with this, He Then said that in local elections the parties until not made significant progress.

for its part Danego said sub-group on political issues in practice has not begun consideration of the question of the modalities of local elections in the Donbass, as the Ukraine has blocked this process." He explained that while at the same time, the subgroup is trying to talk About the modalities for the elections, " the Verkhovna Rada adopts the law, which says that the elections in the area ATO will not be held ".

Plenipotentiary representative of the DND Denis Putilin has noticed that Ukraine should cancel adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of the law On local elections, the creation of which is Authorized republics did not participate. In his view, the initiative of the Verkhovna Rada " unnecessary, and it leads To the escalation of the conflict ".

however, on the last working day of the week the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during the meeting in Kiev with the European Parliament delegation said that the elections, organized by the DPR and LPR, will have devastating consequences for the Minsk process and will lead To further aggravation of the situation in the Donbass. Kiev insists that the local elections in uncontrolled areas of Donbass were appointed by the authorities of Ukraine and was conducted according to Ukrainian legislation.


To the list of political order Authorized the people's Republic add a constitutional reform in Ukraine and the question of the special status of certain regions of Donbass.

in their vision, the text of the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine does not correspond to the Minsk peace process and must be abolished. In DND and LNR notice that despite the Minsk agreements, the draft amendment was not considered by the working sub-group on political issues, nor the contact group on the resolution of the conflict situation in the Donbass.

however, the constitutional court of Ukraine on the first day of the week began to consider the draft changes to the Constitution in terms of decentralization. In the case of a positive conclusion, the deputies will consider the draft changes on first reading. These changes do not provide for a special status for certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but merely prescribe that He will be Appointed a special legislative act.

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