Contact Group for Ukraine ends meeting in Minsk - Belarusian Foreign Ministry

MINSK, August 3 /TASS/. The Contact Group for Ukraine settlement has ended its regular meeting in Minsk, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported on Monday. The Contact Group’s thematic working groups met in the Belarusian capital earlier on Monday. The working group for political issues that held consultations in the format of a video conference agreed to continue discussion of a law on the special status of some districts of Ukraine’s Donbas region. The participants in the Contact Group’s meeting were supposed to reach an agreement on demilitarization of Shirokino; finish the preparation of an agreement on pulling out weapons with a caliber under 100mm from the disengagement line and discuss a political part of the roadmap for the peaceful settlement as well as humanitarian and economic problems. The group’s previous meeting took place in Minsk on July 21. Read more