The meeting of Deputy foreign Ministers of the participating countries "channel four" (Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France) began at the Ministry of foreign Affairs of France, said Last news source in the French international Ministry. in the negotiations also involved the former special representative of the head of the OSCE Heidi Tagliavini, the head of the special OSCE monitoring mission Ertugrul Apakan. Before the meeting the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin told reporters that the Russian Federation expects the meeting to influence Kiev to supply the implementation of the Minsk agreements". According to his statement, the participants have plans to review progress on implementation of the Minsk agreement of 12 February, to think critically about the circumstances with the advancement in activity 4 sub-groups and the contact group. for its part, the Deputy official envoy of the French foreign Ministry Alexander Giorgini stated that the staff of the foreign Minister will exchange views on the stop-fire and withdrawal of heavy weapons, the release of prisoners and the restoration of economic ties between controlled militias areas and the rest of Ukrainian territory. 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 settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict. dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. One of the most important points signed in February of the Minsk agreements was the constitutional reform, and the enactment of a permanent law on the special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The agreement notes that decentralization should take place in coordination specifically, the commissioners of these districts, however, the Kiev Authorities are ignoring this provision, arguing about the fact that you are unwilling to have a dialogue with the authorized rebellious territories. Read