Working groups on security and political issues settlement in the East of Ukraine started in Minsk, said foreign Minister of Belarus in your own account in Twitter.

first the foreign Ministry of Belarus said that the meeting will be held behind closed doors.

"Working groups on security and political issues settlement in Eastern Ukraine meet in Minsk," - said in the report.


As stated before, the main issue discussed at the meetings of the political sub-group, is the holding of local elections in the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. The main theme of the work of the subgroup on safety is preparation of the agreement about the withdrawal from the separation line in the Donbass weapons a caliber of less than 100 millimeters and tanks.

on the last working day of the week was the conference of the trilateral contact group with the authorized DND and LNR. Plenipotentiary representative LNR Vladislav Danego after said that the next meeting of the contact group will take place on Tuesday in Minsk, and on the first day of the week, 28 September, will hold a meeting of the subgroup on security and political issues.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 7, 9 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate conflict

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