Foreign policy advisers to heads of States "channel four" agreed to hold an Exchange of prisoners for the month, said Deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine Vadim pristayko.

Meeting of the assistants and advisers of heads of the countries of the "Normandy format" held in Paris on 12 July.

"for months we agreed to Exchange a certain number, we call, our prisoners," said Pristayko at a press conference.

He said that the head of the Vladimir Zelensky said about the exchange of "10 on 10" or " fifteen fifteen ".

according to his statement, turned out to reach and other agreements - for example, about the stop of fire, the so-called bread truce of demining in the Village of Lugansk and another 2 pre-agreed areas and to come to a common opinion about the following areas for cultivation and clearance.

in addition, Pristayko said, and discussed proposals to facilitate the socio-economic ties with the breakaway republics of Donbass.

Ukraine April 2014 leads military action against the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, declared independence after a coup in Kiev. The settlement of the situation discussed, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk, but after the armistice agreements, the shooting continued.

last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky held 1st phone conversation. They discussed, for example, the dialogue in the Normandy format and the total work for the return of detained persons.

Exchange of all illegally detained persons is provided by the Minsk agreements, but the last time Kyiv and the Republic of Donbass held it under the end of 2017.



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