The Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv is not aware of any plans to hold the next meeting of the trilateral contact group on the situation in eastern Ukraine in Minsk.
“It (such an option) has not been discussed with us,” Belarusian Ambassador to Ukraine Valentin Velichko told reporters in Kyiv on July 1.
Velichko, however, did not rule out that Minsk could be chosen to host such consultations due to Belarus’s neutrality in these matters.
The first meeting of the trilateral contact group was held in Kyiv on June 8.
On June 23 the Donetsk regional state administration hosted multilateral consultations attended by Kuchma, Personal Representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Heidi Tagliavini, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, as well as Ukrainian Choice public organization leader Viktor Medvedchuk, DPR prime minister Oleksandr Borodai, South-East movement leader Oleh Tsariov and representatives from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic.
Consultations between the contact group and representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LPR) also took place on June 27.
The Ukrainian president’s envoy for crisis settlement in eastern Ukraine, Iryna Heraschenko, said on Tuesday that the third meeting of the contact group, made up of representatives of Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Russia, may take place in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
