Kuchma, Zurabov, Tagliavini arrive in Minsk for Trilateral Contact Group talks on Ukraine
MINSK. Jan 31 (Interfax) - Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Russia's Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, and OSCE representative Heidi Tagliavini arrived in Minsk on Saturday to take part in negotiations of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine.
Kuchma, Zurabov, and Tagliavini passed through the airport's VIP hall, got into a motorcade, and left the airport territory, an Interfax correspondent reported.
Denis Pushilin, the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic (DPR) envoy to the Minsk talks, had said earlier on Saturday that he possessed information indicating that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had appointed Kuchma as Kyiv's official representative in the talks.
"There is information indicating that Poroshenko has appointed Kuchma his official representative in the negotiations in Minsk. However, we are waiting for official confirmation and an official document," he said.
"If this information proves true, then there is the hope for Kyiv's reasonability," Pushilin said.