OSCE admits separatist ‘public advisers’ to TCG meetings

The coordinator of the OSCE subgroup, Pierre Morel, could not answer the question from the Ukrainian delegation about who these people were present at the meeting and said that it was not usual to raise the question of the status of the participants in the negotiations.

The OSCE admitted so-called “LPR” and “DPR” separatists to the TCG meetings. This was announced on Tuesday, January 19, by the representative of certain districts of the Donetsk region in the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk Sergey Garmash on his Facebook page.

“The OSCE has outdone itself in the fight to please the Russian Federation. This is no longer the subjectivization of ORDLO, it is the subjectivization and consolidation of the DPR-LPR in the diplomatic process,” Sergei Garmash wrote.

He noted that Rodion Miroshnik, ORLO’s representative in TCG’s political subgroup, wrote a message about this on his Telegram channel.

“Today, for the first time, the public advisers of the“ LPR ”and“ DPR ”will participate in the meeting of the political group of the Contact Group on Donbass. . The republics used their right to expand the composition of the delegations, “Garmash quoted Miroshnik as saying.

Garmash noted that it is not known if the “contact group” is related to the Trilateral Contact Group, who the “public advisers” are and what their status is, and that the words “LPR” and “DPR” are not on the Minsk agreements.

According to him, when windows with new people appeared on the monitors, and the representative of ORDO Mikhailova appeared in the company of two other people, the Ukrainian delegation asked the coordinator of the OSCE subgroup, Pierre Morel, who these people were.

A diplomat with fifty years of experience began to explain verbally that “since the time of Gorbulin” he has not been used to raising the issue of the status of participants in negotiations. Strange negotiations if they are taking place without anyone knowing. Alright. Then Andrey Kostin (the representative of Ukraine in the political subgroup) asked Ambassador Morel, who made the decision to include these people in a closed diplomatic process. The ambassador was also unable to answer this question. But Miroshnik and Mikhailova said: “We will determine the composition of our delegation, as part of the negotiation process,” Garmash said.

He added that, according to Miroshnik and Mikhailov, they notified the Foreign Ministry by note of the composition of the delegation, although TCG participants received no notes.

Today it was also reported that Kiev in the TCG proposed to develop a single plan for Donbass.

We will recall that earlier the head of the OSCE welcomed the ceasefire announced in Donbass. The resolution of the conflict in eastern Ukraine is a priority for the OSCE, stressed the head of the organization.

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