A videoconference of participants of the trilateral contact group with representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republic will be held on Tuesday, April 14, the press secretary of Ukraine's representative in the group, ex-president Leonid Kuchma, Daria Olifer, said.
“On April 14, a videoconference of participants of the trilateral
contact group with representatives of the so-called DPR and LPR will
take place. The conversation will address the ceasefire, the withdrawal
of heavy weapons and the confirmation of this withdrawal by
representatives of the OSCE special monitoring mission,” Olifer wrote on
her Facebook page on Saturday.
According to her, the sides will discuss the exchange of captives, as
well as the issue of establishing working groups dealing with security,
political, economic and humanitarian provisions stipulated in the Minsk
agreement.
Representatives of LPR are ready to take part in a videoconference of
the Trilateral Contact Group for settling the Ukraine crisis, LPR envoy
to the contact group talks Vladyslav Deineho told Interfax
(Interfax.ru) on Saturday.
“I have received official notification from the OSCE that the contact
group’s videoconference will take place at 3:00 p.m. on April 14. We
are ready for this,” Deineho said.
“The main issue is the formation of sub-groups” on various aspects of
the settlement process, Deineho said. “But we also expect that the date
for the contact group’s offline meeting in Minsk will also be
determined at the videoconference,” he said.
Meanwhile, Denys Pushilin, the DPR envoy for trilateral contact group
told Interfax that they as well planned to discuss the establishment of
sub-groups during a contact group videoconference scheduled for April
14.
Participants in an April 1 Skype conference between the Trilateral
Contact Group members and DPR and LPR representatives discussed
Ukraine’s idea of the mutual withdrawal of tanks, 82-mm mortars, and
artillery guns up to 100 mm in caliber from the line of contact.
Kuchma said earlier this week that he hoped such an agreement would
ultimately be reached. He also said he would hope that the exchange of
captives would be resumed.
