At a press conference in Kyiv, the Commissioner of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine Vladimir Chepovoy said that the Ukrainian side in the work of the contact group was represented only by Leonid Kuchma." Viktor Medvedchuk is not the Ukrainian side. In the near future will be a separate information about who was represented by Medvedchuk. I am currently not authorized to speak about it " - media quoted the words of the messenger of the NSDC. Also Chepovoy did not want to explain the presence of the people's Deputy Nestor Shufrych at the meeting in Donetsk tripartite liaison group with the authorized DND and LNR. In addition, he informed those present at the press conference the official position of the Council that they do not recognize DND or LNR party to the negotiations." Ukraine is represented in the tripartite group, is Authorized from the Russian Federation has Authorized the OSCE, " he said.

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