The Trilateral Contact Group for settling the Ukraine crisis (Ukraine-OSCE-Russia) has proposed stipulating a number of concrete steps toward deescalating the conflict in eastern Ukraine in a document that could be signed in Minsk on January 31.
The document was drawn up during Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko’s meeting with the Trilateral Contact Group on January 28 and
was finalized on January 29, the OSCE said in a statement available on
its website.
“On the eve of the consultations in Minsk, the Trilateral Contact
Group proceeds from the understanding that the following practical
outcome must be achieved: a binding agreement on the immediate ceasefire
and withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact line, as agreed in the
Minsk Memorandum on Sep. 19, 2014, unrestricted supply of basic
goods and humanitarian assistance to the affected areas in Donetsk and
Luhansk regions, as well as tangible progress in the release of
detainees,” it said.
The Trilateral Contact Group is ready to travel to Minsk on Jan. 31 it said.
