The Contact Group on Ukraine has completed its negotiations in MinskThe regular meeting of the contact group on Ukraine has lasted for about 5 hours and has ended recently. However, most of the participants declined to comment on the results. The official representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic, Denis Pushilin, described the last round of negotiations as hard and said that the date of the next meeting is still open."It was a hard preparatory meeting and it is not quite correct to disclose the themes and the results before the next meeting. The date and time of the next meeting is in a discussion now," RIA Novosti quoted Pushilin.The negotiations were attended by the Russian ambassador to Kiev, Zurabov, the former President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, the OSCE Representative, Heidi Tagliavini, and the self-proclaimed representatives of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Dane. The accompanying person for Kuchma was Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Michael Ezhel, and for Zurabov it was Russian Ambassador to Minsk Alexander Surikov.
The regular meeting of the contact group on Ukraine has lasted for about 5 hours and has ended recently. However, most of the participants declined to comment on the results. The official representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic, Denis Pushilin, described the last round of negotiations as hard and said that the date of the next meeting is still open.
"It was a hard preparatory meeting and it is not quite correct to disclose the themes and the results before the next meeting. The date and time of the next meeting is in a discussion now," RIA Novosti quoted Pushilin.
The negotiations were attended by the Russian ambassador to Kiev, Zurabov, the former President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, the OSCE Representative, Heidi Tagliavini, and the self-proclaimed representatives of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Dane. The accompanying person for Kuchma was Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Michael Ezhel, and for Zurabov it was Russian Ambassador to Minsk Alexander Surikov.
