The issue of conflict resolution in the Donbass in Minsk, the venue will remain essential, even if in the capital of Belarus will start a dialogue to stabilize the situation in the middle East, said on the last working day of the week press Secretary of the foreign Ministry of Belarus Dmitry Mironchik.

on the last working day of the week, state Secretary of the Union countries of Belarus and Russia Grigory Rapota said that Belarus could become a platform For negotiations to stabilize the situation in the middle East.

"Belarus always adheres to its obligations. For this reason, the Minsk area has the opportunity to continue discussing the situation in Ukraine. To do this we will create all the rules. Whatever other issues may arise, the discussion of the Ukrainian conflict will be essential. No fresh schemes do not have the ability to affect the performance of our obligations ", - quotes Moronica.

in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 continues with weapons of conflict, in which, according to the UN, lost their lives more than 220 thousand people. Government troops to confront units of terrorists belonging to various armed groups. The most active are the militants extremist groups "Islamic state" and " dzhebhat EN-Nusra ".

The participants of the international meeting on the Syrian Arab Republic, which was held in Vienna on 14 November, decided that the dialogue of the government and the opposition are required to complete no later than 1 January of the following year. Participation in negotiations had been Authorized Russia, USA, UN, France, UK, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran and other regional players, are also Authorised in the EU, the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic cooperation.

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, in General, in the field of victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, in the "Normandy format" (Russia, France, Germany, Ukraine). In the capital of Poland was proposed to move the dialogue in " the Geneva format ", i.e. with the assistance of the USA and Poland, neighbouring Russia and Ukraine countries.

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