Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE Andrey Kelin expressed hope that the existing consensus on the demilitarization of residential settlements Shirokino in the Donetsk region of Ukraine will be agreed prior to the upcoming round of negotiations of the contact group, which was scheduled for June 16. Speaking at the meeting of the OSCE permanent Council, the representative of France said that on the previous round, held on 2 June in Minsk, had reached a " principled consensus on the demilitarization of Shirokino ". "If their agreement would be brought to the end, we hope, because This will be done prior to the upcoming meeting of the contact group on 16 June, this precedent should be extended to other sections of the contact line. It would have made a decisive contribution to the stop shelling cities of Donbass, " said Kelin, the transcript of which is published on the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. He noticed that currently it is necessary to take urgent measures to prevent the recurrence of escalation, as was the case on June 3 at the residential settlement of Maryinka. According to k?lin, the sub-working group of the contact group on political issues " took the first steps in agreeing on modalities of local elections ", as envisaged by the Minsk agreements. Kelin added that it is necessary to make progress in the other areas, as well as among them legitimately Amnesty and the exchange of detained persons. first of SMM OSCE offered to not only take heavy weapons, but all are equipped with weapons of creation from the village of Shirokino, East of Mariupol is one of the main "hot spots" in Eastern Ukraine In recent months. The situation in the village remained tense even when the fighting along the rest of the line of contact in the majority stopped. On the last working day of the week, the mission stated that for the first time since may 14, resumed work on the 2 observation posts near Shirokino. June 3 in the area of Marinci has been a serious battle, the victims of which, according to the UN, became 34. The military has accused the militia in the attack, the same called statements of Kiev speculation. Authorized self-proclaimed republics said that the Ukrainian Military continues to pull to the contact line of heavy equipment and jet systems of volley fire, and the intensity of the attacks increased. The authorities DND and LNR pushing that War had brought heavy weapons to a safe distance, regulated by the Minsk agreements. Read