The participants of the negotiations "channel four" urged the Russian Federation and Ukraine to Express support for the OSCE mission to Ukraine, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier after the meeting.

"All participants of the negotiations, not only France and Germany, but also Russia and Ukraine expressed their strong agreement to continue to support the OSCE financial and people over the next weeks," he said.

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 began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.


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.

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