Meeting of contact group on settlement of conflict in southeast Ukraine ends

6 сентября 2017

In Minsk, a regular meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group on the settlement of the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine was completed in the OSCE-Ukraine-Russia format. The meeting participants pointed to a significant reduction in the number of violations of the ceasefire regime over the past summer, namely, by 67%.

It is related to the implementation of agreements on the so-called "school truce." According to Boris Gryzlov, the plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the Contact Group, the first 12 days of the ceasefire showed that "if there is a desire of the parties, it is possible to effectively reduce the number of attacks and improve the safety of civilians."