The trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict situation in the Donbass continues the meeting with the participation of authorized self-proclaimed DND and LNR, said Tuesday the press-Secretary of ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, representing Kiev Minsk talks, Daria olifer.

"in Minsk the participants of the trilateral contact group continue its meeting with the invitation of commissioners of certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ", - she declared.

Olifer added that the focal points from the OSCE in sub-working groups of the contact group will report on its work for today.

over the Past period of time of regular meetings of the contact group yield tangible results. The parties could come to a consensus about the withdrawal from the separation line of the parties in the Donbass weapons up to a caliber of 100 millimeters and tanks.

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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