Political advisors of Normandy Four heads of state to discuss security issues
KYIV/MOSCOW. April 5 (Interfax) - Advisors of the Normandy Four heads of state will discuss security issues and the humanitarian set of issues for the implementation of the Minsk Agreements at a meeting in Minsk on April 6, Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Speaker, Ukrainian envoy in the Trilateral Contact Group humanitarian subgroup Iryna Herashchenko said.
"A meeting at the level of political advisors of the presidents and the chancellor is due to be held. Apparently, the key issues, which will be discussed there, are the issues of security, because without the humanitarian block and the security block one cannot say about the implementation of other blocks of the Minsk Agreements," Herashchenko told reporters in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The first deputy speaker said that Ukraine had called for immediate implementation of these two blocks.
"And there is not a single meeting, not a single telephone conversation in the 'Normandy Format' at all levels [...], where the issue of hostages would not be raised," Herashchenko also said.
It was announced about the holding of consultations in Minsk in the wake of a telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday.
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that presidential aide Vladislav Surkov would represent Russia at the meeting.
Asked about whether the Russian side in Minsk will bring certain proposals on the peacekeeping mission, the Kremlin press secretary called for the meeting to take place.
