Minsk to host this year's first meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine

16 января 2017

Today will see this year's first meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine in Minsk. Despite all efforts, the parties did not manage to solve the majority of key issues by the end of last year. Among them is a full ceasefire along the contact line, prisoner release, holding local elections in the Donbass areas uncontrolled by Kiev authorities and reconstructing the infrastructure and life-support systems destroyed during the hostilities. According to the negotiators, the main reason is a failure to comply with the Minsk agreements.