The sub-group on economic issues of the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine has completed its work in Minsk, said the press service of the envoy of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in the negotiations Denis Pushilin.

first it was stated that the Subgroup will discuss ways for early restoration of rail infrastructure and electricity and water supply of the Donbass.

"Negotiators in the economic sub-group already finished the meeting ", - quotes the words of the messenger of the press service of the Donetsk news Agency.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

The last document from February 12 - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and the creation of security zones, obliges the Ukrainian Authorities to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of holding 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 Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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