The trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict situation in the South-East of Ukraine began in Minsk, said a source in the group.
"The trilateral contact group began meeting", - has told the interlocutor of RIA of " news ". He added that the work involved and Authorized self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics.
for its part, the press Secretary of ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma Daria olifer said on his Facebook page that after the meeting of the trilateral contact group in Minsk began the meeting, the commissioners proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. On the first day of the week official authorized DND in the contact group, Vice-speaker of the people's Council of the Republic Denis Putilin said that the delegation proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic arrived in Minsk on a new round of negotiations to resolve the conflict situation in the Donbass. Last week authorized Authorized Donetsk and Lugansk national republics Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Danego appealed to the representatives of Kiev in the contact group with the appeal to come to a common opinion on the special status of Donbass. Remember, on July 16, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko submitted to the Parliament amendments to the Constitution with the regulations on the status of Donbass. This Poroshenko, introducing the draft changes to the main law of the country, declared that Ukraine "was, there is and will be" a unitary state, the proposed changes to the Constitution do not provide for a special status For Donbass. Rada has approved these amendments, and the draft was sent to the constitutional court For evaluation. The direction of change in the COP endorsed 288 deputies are Glad of 450. For the final adoption of the law on introducing changes to the Constitution will need More than 300 votes of parliamentarians. The meeting was attended by the us Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt and U.S. assistant Secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia Victoria Nuland. In the Donbass told that these amendments are irrelevant to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated before that shows the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada the project of constitutional reform completely ignores the suggestions of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass.

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