Issues of the practical implementation of the “Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements”, adopted in Minsk on 12 February 2015, were discussed during the consultations. Particular emphasis was placed on full respect of provisions concerning the ceasefire, which should be strictly implemented from 15 February 2015 at 00.00 hours Kiev time, as well as the withdrawal of heavy weapons, as agreed in the Package of Measures.
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OSCE: Trilateral Contact Group holds video conference on cease-fire
France's President Francois Hollande, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (frontL-R) walk for a family photo at the presidential residence in Minsk on February 11, 2015, during a meeting aimed at halting a 10-month war.
Following the recent summit meeting of in the Normandy Format in Minsk, the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), consisting of senior representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, today, 14 February 2015, a round of consultations in the form of a video-conference with representatives of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
