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According to Fokin, he was invited to join the TCG by the head of the president’s office, Andrei Yermak.
ORDLO representatives were eager to see the former prime minister as part of the Ukrainian delegation in the Donbass negotiations.
Former Prime Minister Vitold Fokin initially refused to join the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on the peaceful resolution of the armed conflict in Donbass. He said this on the air of the Ukrainian radio.
According to Fokin, he was invited to join the TCG by the head of the president’s office, Andrei Yermak. At the same time, the former prime minister has not communicated with the head of the Ukrainian delegation, former president Leonid Kravchuk for the past 10 years.
“I received an invitation to the president’s office. There I saw Kravchuk. Andrei Borisovich said that he invited us to be included in the TCG. We met with Kravchuk and talked for 6.5 hours. We understood that we had to get out of the impasse we were in. “. delegation – it was an imitation of the activity, “said Fokin.
He clarified that he finally agreed to join the TKG after calls from Donbass, in particular, from territories not controlled by the official Ukrainian authorities.
“Calls from friends in Donbass became defining. Once the guys from Stakhanov called. They asked me very much not to turn down this offer. Two weeks later I accepted,” said Fokin.
Earlier, the representative of certain districts of the Donetsk region in the TCG Sergei Garmash said that the scandal surrounding the statements of the deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Vitold Fokin was caused by “misunderstandings”.
Earlier, Fokin said in an interview that he allows a full amnesty for separatists in Donbass, as well as a special status for the entire territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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