Representative of Ukraine in the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the fall in the Donbass Leonid Kuchma, Deputy head of mission at the U.S. Embassy Bruce Donahue and Deputy head of the special monitoring of the OSCE mission Alexander hug discussed the results of the talks in Minsk, which took place on 8 September. "The parties discussed the results of the last meeting of the trilateral contact group in Minsk, in General, emphasized the observance of silence and stressed the necessity of signing of the document on the withdrawal of weapons with a calibre of not more than 100 millimetres," said on Thursday the press service of the non-profit Fund of Leonid Kuchma " Ukraine ". during the last meeting of the contact group failed to initial the agreement on the withdrawal of weapons with a calibre of 100 millimetres and tanks, the Parties continue to work in this direction. according to information of the press service, the meeting participants also discussed the need to cancel the elections in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk republics, planned for October 18 and November 1, noting that, in their vision, the elections throughout the territory of Donbass are required to complete in accordance with Ukrainian legislation. The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 7, 8 thousand people. The settlement is discussed, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk. One of the main issues is the coordination of the document on the withdrawal of weapons with a calibre of not more than 100 millimeters in the Donbas and the conduct of elections in DND and LNR. The Ukrainian Government has appointed elections to local authorities on 25 October. The self-proclaimed authorities of Donetsk and Lugansk national republics many times stated About the conduct of local elections regardless of the wishes of Kiev. However, they explained that the appointment date of the local elections due to the fact that Kiev is in the hands of individual adopted the law " On local elections ", not agreeing with LNR and DND, which does not comply with the Minsk agreements. The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov on Wednesday said that the DPR and LPR are ready to hold local elections on the basis of Ukrainian law and With the assistance of the OSCE observers, but this requires direct meetings between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk.