Meeting of the contact group in Ukraine in Minsk cancelled
Scheduled for Friday in Minsk meeting of the contact group on the issue of settlement of Ukrainian fall will not be held, said at the Ukrainian Embassy in Minsk. " No. Today's talks will not "- said the Embassy, adding that participating in the negotiations of the ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in Minsk has not yet arrived, RIA " Novosti ". First it was announced that the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Belarus to Friday morning and has not received a consolidated proposal for the Minsk meeting of the contact group on the situation in Ukraine. On Thursday, the contact group on the situation in Ukraine held a preparatory meeting in Kiev. Authorized group indicated that Scheduled for Friday meeting in Minsk remains under question. While the Commissioner of Donetsk national Republic in the negotiations Denis Putilin said: " We initiated Deinega (representative LNR) confirm the participation in the Minsk meeting and are on the way to Minsk ". Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, representing the Ukrainian side at the talks, said that the meeting of the contact group is only possible With the assistance of the heads proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics (DND and LNR) Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Carpentry. But Carpenter said that he saw no sense in its own part in the talks in Minsk on January 16, because until not waiting for them to concrete results.