Minsk is the most convenient platform for organization of negotiations on Ukraine, says Russia's Ambassador to Belarus Alexander Surikov. "This is the most convenient platform, taking into account the fact that about these guys who call themselves separatists, travel limits in the European Union and Ukraine with regard to them being prosecuted," said Surikov correspondents on Wednesday in Minsk. He Also said that in Belarus there is a good transport infrastructure for the arrival of the negotiators and no language barrier. The Ambassador also said that the holding of these meetings seriously raises the status of Belarus in the global political arena." The role of Belarus as the organizer of the negotiation process the whole world is highly evaluated. This seriously raises the credibility of Belarus in the foreign policy arena, " said the Ambassador. 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. The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".