Pushkov: meeting of the international group for Ukraine will be held in September
The first meeting of the international contact group on Ukraine can pass in September, said the head of the Duma Department of international Affairs Alexei Pushkov.
the conclusion About the creation of international parliamentary contact group on Ukraine was adopted at the last session of PA OSCE in Baku. With the proposal of creating such a group was Russia.
" When we went to the session of the OSCE, we had two problems. The first is to make a decision About creation of the international parliamentary contact group in Ukraine. The second task is to prevent the American political And propaganda monopoly at the session of the parliamentary Assembly. And both tasks we have done, " said Pushkov during an interview with " Rossiyskaya Gazeta ", which will be released on the first day of the week.
" First, the conclusion About the creation of a parliamentary contact group was taken, And no one, not even the Americans, not voted " against ". Took place the meeting on the creation of this group with the participation of the head of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly Ranco of Krivokapich And heads of delegations of Russia And Ukraine. Agreed that such a group will be formed in the near future. I guess its First meeting will be held in September, " he added.
on the last working day of the week head of the state Duma on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky did not rule out that the inter-parliamentary liaison group of the OSCE PA in Ukraine may hold its First meeting before the end of July.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country And the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people With the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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