“Congratulations to Kinnunen on assuming the office of OSCE Special Representative in Ukraine and the Trilateral Contact Group. Special thanks to Ambassador Heidi Grau for her skillful leadership of the TCG over the past year and a half,” the Ukrainian diplomat wrote.
Context:
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass are being held in the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE), as well as in the Normandy format – with the participation of representatives of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia.
Swiss diplomat Heidi Grau served as OSCE Special Representative to the TCG since the end of 2019… July 21, 2021 she said goodbye to the participants in the consultation.
Since August 1, the OSCE has been represented by Kinnunen.
There will be a break in the meetings at the TCG until the end of August, it is connected with vacations.
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