Next meeting of Minsk Group to be held on September 19

The next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbas will be held in Minsk on September 19.

Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the TCG, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, told this to journalists, BELTA reported.

“The next round of talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine is scheduled for September 19 in Minsk,” he said.

During the talks on September 5, the humanitarian working group focused on a visit by OSCE Coordinator Toni Frisch to the conflict zone on both sides of the contact line. The economic working group, among other things, continued to discuss steps to restore and improve the quality of Vodafone-Ukraine mobile communication in certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as current issues related to the payment of pensions and water supply. The political working group discussed the implementation of the Steinmeier formula, amnesty and modality of local elections in certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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