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According to the representative of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, the journalist Sergei Garmash, Russia’s demand for a “peace plan” is one of the positions blocking the exchange of detainees.
Russia is blocking the exchange of detainees between Kiev and the territory of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions not controlled by the Ukrainian government, said the representative of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, journalist Sergei Garmash on the air of channel 24 of Ukraine on December 17.
He said that Ukraine has presented lists of its citizens on four occasions, we are talking about 240 prisoners, 11 of them are in serious condition and “urgently need to be removed,” Garmash emphasized.
“Russia has never presented lists in the six months that I have been in the TCG, it is blocking these processes by first demanding the annulment of the Rada resolution on local elections, now it already wants a Rada resolution, which supposedly should approve a certain plan of peace proposed by ORDLO. She says there will be no exchange until we procedurally clear the nine people we gave them earlier, although these are not interrelated things, “Garmash said.
The journalist added that he sees no progress in the exchange “in accordance with the mood of the Russian Federation.”
“There is a weak, but significant hope: if, after all, a meeting in the Normandy format takes place at the level of foreign policy advisers to heads of state before the end of the year, then most likely If a positive result is needed, then at least these 11 people will be exchanged. ” added.
Garmash said Ukraine unilaterally complied with the agreements reached at the Normandy Four summit in Paris on December 9, 2019.
Then there was the first summit in three years of the leaders of the “Normandy Four” – Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia, dedicated to the resolution of the conflict in Donbass. The final communiqué establishes that the parties agreed to a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees according to the formula of “all for all” until December 31, 2019, the withdrawal of forces and funds in three new areas in the Donbass, the extension of the law for one year. “On the special procedure for local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” and the extension of the mandate of the special OSCE monitoring mission.
The agreements were partially implemented, in particular, the exchange of detainees was carried out on two occasions, the last one on April 16, 2020. The militants released 20 people, the Ukrainian authorities handed them 14.
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