The contact group in Ukraine may be collected before the end of this week, said the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin.
" Moving forward planned, it will be a difficult process. The easy way and easy solutions will not, but we hope, has the opportunity to be before the end of the week will be the Contact group, which will create the necessary prerequisites for the preparation of the summit in Astana, "Karasin said, RIA" Novosti ". Before Tuesday, the official authorized DND negotiations Denis Putilin said that representatives of the Donetsk national Republic ready at any moment to go to Minsk to resolve questions about the dividing line, the special status of Donbass and the lifting of the blockade region. First he said that " dialogues in Astana to be postponed due to the unconstructive position of Kiev, continuing to ignore the Geneva and Minsk consensus ". On the first day of the week Russian foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century, said the meeting "channel four" (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine), which Ministers hope that the Contact group in Ukraine will meet in the coming days, from the results of the meeting depends on the summit in the "channel format" in Astana. Before that, the President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the opportunity to participate centuries Putin at the meeting on the settlement of the Ukrainian drop in "channel format" in Astana depends on the productivity of talks at the foreign Minister level.


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