Ukrainian MP Nadiya Savchenko ready join Trilateral Contact Group for Donbas
KYIV. Dec 13 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada member representing the Batkivshchyna faction Nadiya Savchenko said that she offered herself as a candidate to join the Trilateral Contact Group on settling the situation in Donbas.
"If the Minsk group proved unable to reach an agreement..., then why not reinforce it with other people. I have more than once suggested my candidacy for reinforcing the Minsk group," Savchenko told the '112' television station on Monday evening.
The MP said that her proposals, however, had gone unanswered.
"I have not heard any direct reply, except for [an answer] from Herashchenko [Ukrainian Parliament First Deputy Speaker and Ukraine's representative to the Trilateral Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup in Minsk Iryna Herashchenko], who said that she was working in accordance with some declaration endorsed by the president," Savchenko said.
Savchenko also said that she was not coordinating her steps with the Batkivshchyna faction.
"Indeed, I am not coordinating my working trips, my vision or my actions with the Batkivshchyna party," she said, adding that she remained a member of this faction.
"I remain in the Batkivshchyna faction. We are doing the same work in the Verkhovna Rada," she said.
Savchenko also said she was convinced that her meeting with leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko and leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic Igor Plotnitsky in Minsk would not legalize them.
