The surveillance over the Ukrainian-Russian border can only be solved after a comprehensive political settlement of the conflict situation in the Donbass, said Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.

"in regard to the prospects of creating T. N. The fifth sub-group on border issues, forced again to remind colleagues item 9 "set of measures" (adopted by the Contact group on 12 February in Minsk - ed.) which refers the matter to the point, when a comprehensive political settlement of the fall. The path to this was long, " said Lukashevich on the first day of the week at a special meeting of the OSCE permanent Council.

The text of his speech published the website of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

above the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting in the Normandy format in Paris raise the question of the establishment of the subgroup on restoration observations on the border line with Russia during the Contact group on the settlement of the fall in the Donbass. Meeting of the heads of state "channel format" will be held on 2 October in Paris.

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