Meetings of the working subgroup on safety in Minsk on 23 June is not assumed, will meet the other three sub-groups and the contact group on settling the situation in the Donbass, told reporters the permanent representative DND on Minsk talks Denis Putilin.

first it claimed that on June 23 in Minsk will meet all 4 sub-groups and contact groups.

"On the 23rd will be a meeting of the three subgroups, with the exception of the subgroup on safety and the meeting of the contact group ", - said Pushilin.

He added that there are already tentative dates of meetings of sub-groups and contact groups for July." Tentative date is for July. We need to assure them with a new representative of the OSCE ", - said Pushilin.

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 ".


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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