MOSCOW, 27 Jun — RIA Novosti. The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov during a telephone conversation with Secretary General of the OSCE Thomas Greminger said the need for direct dialogue between the parties to the Ukrainian conflict.
“there was an exchange of assessments on the results of the meeting of the contact group from 20 to 22 April this year in the context of the recommendations on 9 December 2019 in Paris summit “channel four” (Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine – ed.) about the concrete steps towards the fulfilment of “Complex action”. The Russian side stressed the need to resolve all issues through direct dialogue between the parties to the Ukrainian conflict in full compliance with the Minsk agreements”, – stated in the message.
it is also Noted that the parties discussed the situation connected with optimization of work of Special monitoring mission of OSCE in Ukraine in the context of pandemic coronavirus. Besides, there were discussed practical issues of Russia’s cooperation with the OSCE.
the Ukrainian Authorities in April 2014 began a military operation against the breakaway LC and the DNI, which declared independence after a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the latest UN victims of the conflict were about 13 thousand people.
the settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, including during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which from September 2014 adopted three documents regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. However, after the armistice agreements between the parties to the conflict continue shooting.
