Minsk - A meeting of the trilateral contact group for resolving the situation in Ukraine began in Minsk on Sept. 1, an Interfax correspondent reported.
First Deputy Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Andrei Purgin and a leader of Luhansk militia Alexei Karyakin participate in the talks.
Just as at the meeting held earlier, Russia is represented by Russian Ambassador in Kyiv Mikhail Zurabov and Ukraine – by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.
The meeting is being held behind closed doors and journalists were asked to leave the Dipservice Hall building.
Purgin said he did not expect a considerable breakthrough on resolving the situation in Ukraine. “This is an initial stage. We do not expect a considerable breakthrough today,” Purgin told reporters in Minsk prior to the meeting.
Purgin said he “arrived with proposals in order to find contact points and to stop the war and casualties.” The initial proposals for the consultative negotiating process will “include eight to nine points,” Purgin said.
“An exchange of proposals will take place today and we will try to find contact points,” he said.
