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Representatives of Ukraine at the meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the conflict went to the disorganization of negotiations on all areas of settlement, said the plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the Minsk Group Boris Gryzlov.He noted that the meeting of the group was held for the first time under the leadership of Finnish diplomat Mikko Kinnunen, and after a month-long break.
The Ukrainian side has refused to discuss the draft regulations of the contact group, it carefully avoids written documentation of its statements and positions. And all this is happening against the background of Kiev’s non-compliance with the ceasefire regime in the Donbas.
This time, everything fell apart after the representative of Ukraine demanded to change the composition of the delegation of the DPR and LPR. “This clowning was interrupted by the OSCE coordinator, who was forced to close the meeting,” Gryzlov stressed. He considers the repeated statements of the Ukrainian side about the commitment to the truce and care for its citizens to be” empty”.
Gryzlov added that on August 9, the government of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law prohibiting the settlement of the conflict in accordance with the Minsk agreements. “It is unclear how Ukrainian representatives continue to negotiate contrary to the position of the government of Ukraine,” the politician is perplexed.