Moscow - Switzerland, which now chairs the OSCE, has not received any information from the Contact Group on Ukraine on additional agreements to the Minsk agreement on elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in the period between Oct. 19 and Nov. 3.
“I do not now anything about this agreement, since the trilateral contact group has not informed about it, there is nothing I can say to this,” Roland Bless, spokesman for the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship, said on Thursday, Oct. 30.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the elections scheduled to be held in southeastern Ukraine on Nov. 2 are legitimate and in line with the Minsk agreements.
The ministry said the elections were approved to be held in the period between Oct. 19 and Nov. 3 in accordance with the Minsk agreements reached in September 2014.
The trilateral group comprises representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE, as well as representatives of some districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
