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The Trilateral Contact Group for settling the situation in Donbas, which will gather in Minsk on Wednesday, May 6, will try to launch the work of four subgroups dealing with different components of the Minsk agreements, Darya Olifer, the spokesperson for former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who represents Kyiv in the Contact Group, told Interfax-Ukraine on May 5.

“The members of the Trilateral Contact Group will meet with representatives of the so-called DPR and LPR [self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics] in Minsk on May 6. The meeting is to begin at 2 p.m.,” Olifer said.

The meeting’s primary purpose is to launch the work of the subgroups on security, political, economic, and humanitarian components of the Minsk agreement, she said.

“OSCE representatives will act as coordinators of these subgroups,” Olifer said.