Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin considers it necessary to immediately begin discussions on elections in self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics in the trilateral contact group (TCG). "Pavlo Klimkin drew attention to the need to commence immediately under the TKG discuss the modalities of local elections in certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions on the basis of Ukrainian law and the universally recognized signs of the OSCE. Important in this context is the involvement envoy of the OSCE / ODIHR to the work of the subgroup on political issues TKG ", √ reported in the report on the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine. On the first day of the weekend, the Ministers of foreign Affairs of the "channel four" (Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France) held dialogues in Berlin. The meeting lasted over three hours. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov positively assessed the past in Berlin dialogues of foreign Ministers in the " Normandy format ", saying that the two sides stressed the need to establish a direct dialogue between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk. September 9 the mission of the Office for democratic institutions and human rights of the Organization for security and cooperation in the European Union (OSCE / ODIHR) has said it will not participate in observing the elections in the Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. DNR has expressed a regret in connection with the decision of the OSCE. Prior to this, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine said that the holding of local elections in Donetsk and Luhansk will lead to the disruption of the Minsk agreements.