Tuesday 16 March Tripartite Contact Group (TCG) was able to work only an hour on political issues due to the fact that the Russian side involved in the negotiations an “expert” from Donetsk Maya Pirogova… In Ukraine, she sentenced to 10 years for terrorism and put on the wanted list.
The Ukrainian side, in accordance with the Minsk agreements, asked exclude Pirogova from the working grouphowever representative OSCE diplomat Pierre Morel said that this not in his competence… Told about it Sergey Garmash, journalist and representative of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG, on his page in Facebook.
Concerning Ukraine took a breakfor the TCG to resolve this issue. Garmash also drew attention to the participation in the negotiations of people from Lugansk, invited by Russia, to which the Ukrainian side did not agree.
“Ambassador Morel justifies their participation by an“ established practice ”that has become established, because“ Kravchuk is silent at the TCG for a month and a half. ”He even expressed the hope that tomorrow at the TCG“ finally, finally (!) There will be a reaction from Ukraine. ” understands what claims may be against him if Ukraine itself is not actively raising these issues at the TCG, “the representative of Ukraine said.
According to Garmash, in fact, the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Leonid Kravchuk is not silent at all and noted that he hoped that on Wednesday, March 17, he would raise this issue at the meeting.
“In fact, Kravchuk is not silent, but, it is true, he does not knock on the table with his shoe either – apparently this is what the OSCE views as a sufficiently active statement of the question to respond to it,” the journalist wrote.
We will remind, earlier the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Leonid Kravchuk threatenedthat the Armed Forces of Ukraine will forcefully respond to fire on them from the Russian invaders in the Donbas.
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As reported OBOZREVATEL, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia Dmitry Kozak expressed his conviction that Kiev “does not have any new peace plan” to resolve the situation in Donbass, which is being discussed in the Ukrainian government.
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