Kiev has decided to enter into the Trilateral contact group on settling the situation in the East of Ukraine ten immigrants from the Donbass to participate in peace talks as a party alternative to the current talks between the DNI and the LC. In Moscow and the unrecognized republics warn in this case, all over the fact that Kiev will negotiate with himself.In the negotiations on conflict settlement in the Donbass dramatically shifted the emphasis. The questions of the withdrawal of forces, clearance, special status for separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions (ORDO — includes the unrecognized DND and LNR) suddenly departed on the second plan. The main topic was the composition of the Trilateral contact group (TAG), six years is a key negotiating platform.In 2014, there sit the representatives of Kyiv, DND and LNR, as well as the OSCE and Russia. But on may 4 the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andrey Ermak said that Ukraine, first, the numerical increase of its delegation and will enhance its status, and secondly, no longer intends to communicate and negotiate with the current representatives of the republics of Donbass in the pipeline. Now that the foreign Ministers of the DNI and LC Natalia Nikonorova and Vladislav Danego.An acceptable party to the negotiations, said Mr. Ermak, Kiev considers civil society representatives from the Donbas, “who have only the citizenship of Ukraine, who took no part in the war against Ukraine, who are not criminals today, didn’t kill our soldiers, didn’t take criminal decisions”. “Here are these people we are ready today in the framework of the Minsk process to say,” said Mr. Ermak.The change began on may 5: President Vladimir Zelensky by his decree approved the new composition of the Ukrainian delegation to the TAG. Her head was still the second President Leonid Kuchma. But now to help him will be Deputy Prime Minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine Oleksii Reznikov — he was appointed the first Deputy of mister Kuchma.Together with Mr. Reznikov the delegation included the Deputy head of the Ministry of defense Oleksandr Polishchuk, Deputy Minister of economic development, trade and agriculture Yulia Sviridenko, as well as the heads of three parliamentary committees.The innovation has not ended. The edition “New time” with reference to sources in the office of Mr. Zelensky may 7 reported that Alexei Reznikov tasked to define the criteria to select from among the internally displaced persons from the Donbass ten more people to connect to the negotiations in the pipeline. “I have an idea to form this group of representatives of Donbass from lawyers, journalists, businessmen, priests and so on”,— quotes the edition a source in the entourage of the President of Ukraine.If you believe the review of this source selected by the Kiev displaced from Donbass in the negotiations will have to provide the Donbass. “Our goal is deregulation to the presence in the TAG of the representatives of individual regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions with uncontrollable Ukraine territories”,— said the interlocutor of “New time”.No official comment about what actually is the status of the ten new negotiators is whether they will join the Ukrainian delegation, or would indeed be the alternative to the current representatives of DND and LNR in the contact group— Ukrainian authorities have not yet given. Press Secretary of Vladimir Zelensky and Yulia Mendel’s press Secretary Andrei Yermak Daria Zarivna on request “b” did not answer.At the same time close to the Minsk negotiation process, the interlocutor of Kommersant, the Ukrainian side explained the idea of inclusion in the pipeline of new people from among the displaced persons from Donbas in the following way. “Our position is that in the contact group, the three parties: the Russian Federation and Ukraine as parties to the conflict and a mediator of the OSCE. And those who are there now are ORDO, it invited the Russian side representatives of the occupied territories. We reserve the right to invite individual representatives of Donbass the number of internally displaced persons. And thus monopolize the presence of representatives of only one side,”— said the source “b”.In the unrecognized republics Kiev’s plans to include alternate representatives of Donbass criticized. “It is important to understand that these representatives will be appointed by the Executive power of Ukraine and the talks will reflect her opinion. This PR stunt by Ukrainian officials able to only cause more doubt in their common view of the situation,”— said in a statement the foreign Ministry of the DPR.The foreign Minister LNR Vladislav Danego said, “If this is another attempt to replace the existing five years, the dialogue between Donbas and Ukraine with the assistance of facilitators kind of surrogate formed from comfortable for the Ukrainian authorities some “of refugees from Donbas”, at the time, escaped out, such attempts will not pass.”The Russian side an official comment about the possible changes in the pipeline not yet acted. Kommersant’s source in the government of the Russian Federation, informed about the content of the talks with the Ukrainian side believes that if the representatives of the Donbass, which Kiev intends to select, will indeed be introduced as an alternative to the current negotiators from ORDO is “just going to break contact group”. “It will end because they will be there with each other without us and the representatives of Donbas to talk”— he warned.If Kiev intends through ten new negotiators to build its own dethe delegation, to prevent it no one can. At TKG, there is no regulation, so the number of members of the delegation of any of the parties can be anything, says the interlocutor of Kommersant with the Russian parties involved in the negotiation process in the Donbass. According to him, Moscow’s proposal to formulate and adopt the rules of the contact group, expressed the Deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation in the negotiations of advisers and assistants of the leaders of “Norman format” (Germany, Russia, Ukraine, France), found no support. As well as the initiative that all agreements of the TAG and considered at the meetings of the group the issues recorded in the minutes and published.Last contact “Normans”, which was attended by Dmitry Kozak, Andrew Ermak and Yang Hecker and Emmanuel Bonn from Germany and France took place, according to “Kommersant”, 6 may. On it, according to knowledgeable on the negotiation of the interlocutor of “Kommersant”, Mr. Kozak said that Russia will change the composition and enhance the status of their negotiators in the pipeline is not going to. Kommersant’s source also said that Dmitry Kozak called Andrey Ermak to interact with the real, albeit unrecognized, by the authorities of the republics of Donbass and not to try to put Moscow a party to the conflict, and hence negotiation. On the last Kiev insists all the harder. The public position of the Ukrainian authorities as follows: in the conflict in the East only two parties — Ukraine and Russia.Vladimir Solovyov
