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21 of July, 13:02

The OSCE has hopes for "at least a small consensus" in the negotiations
The head of the OSCE Ivica Dacic said that he wants to motivate achievement in the negotiations of the contact group on Ukraine on Tuesday "even small agreements" that will allow to transfer the conflict into the political mainstream.

before Dacic declared that will participate in the meeting of the contact group on Ukraine in Minsk to " push the political process ". A new meeting of the contact group and its subgroups will be held in the context of intensified efforts by the international brotherhood aimed at advancing the peace process. So, last Friday, the first since April, dialogues of the leaders of the "Normandy format" (Russia, France, Germany, Ukraine). On the next day the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov held dialogues with their counterparts from Germany, Ukraine and USA.

"I wish to motivate the achievement of even small arrangements to the end was made a big move the conflict from the riverbed of hostilities in the mainstream of political talks," Dacic said at a press conference following the meeting with the foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei and the President of the country Alexander Lukashenko.

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.

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