Ukraine's lawmaker of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction and Ukrainian president's envoy for Donbas settlement Iryna Heraschenko revealed that the release of captives will be a key topic at the meeting of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group to be held in Minsk on Jan. 13.
“We will plough through every last name. I still believe that we must get moving on this issue,” Heraschenko wrote on her Facebok page on Jan. 12.
She also noted that more than 100 missions of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and over 25 missions from the OSCE, UN bodies, Doctors without Borders and other international humanitarian organizations visited Ukrainian penitentiaries over the past year and were able to talk to detainees.
However, there was not a single case when an ‘access to prisons’ was granted in the territories beyond Kyiv’s control “either to the ICRC or any other organizations,” she said. This was despite the fact, she said, that before the season’s holidays the militiamen “promised to allow, at least, the Red Cross into the prisons.”
It was reported that the first Trilateral Contact Group meeting of 2016 has been scheduled for Jan. 13 and is due to be held in Minsk.
