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Leonid Kravchuk urged the Russian Federation not to block the negotiations on Donbass. Photo: Facebook
On Wednesday, September 30, a regular meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) was held by videoconference with the participation of the delegations of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and moderated by the OSCE. This was the first meeting after the removal of Vitold Fokin from the Ukrainian delegation.
This was reported by the press service of the Presidency.
“Do not block the negotiation process and focus on the problems in whose solution the citizens of Ukraine are interested,” the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, Leonid Kravchuk, asked the authorized representative of the Russian Federation, Boris Gryzlov, at the beginning of the meeting.
According to him, “the parties should work on the implementation of the decisions of the heads of state of the Normandy format, reached during the Paris summit, bringing the world that people are fighting closer to.”
Kravchuk also said that the Ukrainian delegation is willing to work constructively to resolve the issues on the TCG agenda.
In addition, the head of the Ukrainian delegation urged not to create “obstacles”, but “to move forward, focusing on strengthening the ceasefire, freeing people in the power of the parties and solving problems that ordinary people are interested in solving.”
Addressing Boris Gryzlov, Leonid Kravchuk said: “Do not offer us ultimatums. We are not in the USSR or under the Kremlin. Ukraine is an independent state that will not allow any conditions to be imposed on it.”
At the same time, Krachuk thanked the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Ukraine and the TCG, Ms. Heidi Grau, for the efforts being made by the organization to achieve peace and restore the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
Recall that Kravchuk previously stated that the Rada’s refusal to change the resolution on the elections could block the Minsk process.
