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Fokin and Yermak found a common language on how to end the war in Donbas.
Vitold Fokin became a Donbass negotiator at the suggestion of his granddaughter / Photo TSN.ua
The granddaughter of the first independent Ukrainian Prime Minister Vitold Fokin, Maria, recounted how her grandfather got the post of first deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group on negotiations to resolve the situation in Donbass.
She reported thisin the program “Vida social” on channel “1 + 1”.
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“I personally introduced my grandfather to Andrey Ermak. This is my friend. And it was our personal decision that Grandpa started doing this. I did not know that Andrey Ermak was my good childhood friend. And once again, Andryusha needed help, to help in the situation, “he said on the Secular Life program on channel 1 + 1.
According to her, Fokin and Yermak found a common language on how to end the war in Donbas.
“Grandpa always had ambitions. It is a gray cardinal. He’s always behind the camera, he doesn’t like interviews, he doesn’t like the press. But they found a common language with Andryusha: how can they end this war? ”Said Maria Fokina.
He called his personal relationship with Yermak warm and friendly.
Andrey Borisovich and I have been friends since I was 18 years old. We see each other very often. We have warm and friendly relationships, ”said Maria Fokina.
Who is Vitold Fokin?
Vitold Fokin was born in 1932 in the Dnepropetrovsk region. During the communist regime, he was a member of the Communist Party (KPU) commission in 1976-1981, a member of the KPU Central Committee in 1981-1991, a deputy of the eleventh convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of the USSR in 1988-1989.
From 1990 to 1992, under the presidency of Leonid Kravchuk, he was Prime Minister of Ukraine. One of the first to receive the mandate of the People’s Deputy of the Rada of the already independent Ukraine.
Fokin was one of the signatories of the agreement between the governments of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.
In 1993, Fokin was president of the International Fund for Humanitarian and Economic Relations of Ukraine with Russia.
Chronology of events
- On July 28 it became known that former President Kuchma decided to stop participating in the TCG’s work on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbass. President Zelensky noted that he respects Kuchma’s decision and thanked him for his work as head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG.
- On July 29, Zelensky said that the current First Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian delegation, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, the First President of Ukraine Kravchuk and several others are being considered for the post of the new head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG. .
- On July 30, Zelenskiy appointed Kravchuk as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk.
- On August 4, the first President of Ukraine, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG, Leonid Kravchuk, announced that Vitold Fokin was offered the position of “communications coordinator of all parties” at the TCG.
- On August 5, the Office of the President reported that Fokin plans to determine his possible participation in the work of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG by the end of this week.
- On August 18, 2020, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, introduced the Prime Minister of Ukraine in 1990-1992, Vitold Fokin, to the Ukrainian delegation to participate in the Trilateral Contact Group for the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbass (TCG).
- In one of his recent interviews, Vitold Fokin said that he was in favor of granting a special status to the entire territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and not just to the occupied part.
- The head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, pointed out that Fokin’s statements on “special status” for the entire Donbass and amnesty for militants do not reflect the official position of the Ukrainian delegation. According to Yermak, most of the positions expressed by Fokin, in fact, reflect the provisions of the first and second Minsk agreements.
- Interior Minister Arsen Avakov noted that Fokin’s statements about a “special status” for the entire Donbass and a general amnesty for militants do not respond to Ukraine’s national interests and are provocative.
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