The Commissioner of Kiev in the contact group on settling the situation in Donbas, the ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma flew to Minsk on dialogues, said Last news the press-Secretary Daria olifer.

Another round of talks of the contact group and its subgroups will be held on Tuesday in Minsk. It is expected that the meeting will be attended by the acting head of the OSCE Ivica Dacic.

"Leonid Danilovich (Kuchma - ed.) took off on the dialogues," said olifer.

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.

first of LNR and DNR began in the sole procedure for the withdrawal of weapons with a calibre of not more than 100 millimetres. Such activities are not in the package, but the parties have begun the preparation of the relevant Treaty, the signing of which had to take place in early July. While Kiev has not responded to this initiative. Commissioners of Donbass hope to continue the discussion at the meeting on Tuesday.

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