16 Dec 2014 10:06

DPR leaders say they are ready to resume Ukraine Contact Group meetings in Minsk

DONETSK. Dec 16 (Interfax) - The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic is taking all necessary measures to resume talks of the trilateral Contact Group for Ukraine in Minsk as soon as possible, the DPR chief negotiator Denis Pushilin has said.

"Indeed, we are taking all steps in order to be able to hold a meeting in Minsk as soon as possible. The arrangement of first holding a video conference and then a meeting suits us. We are prepared to take part in a conference by skype at any moment. We have already achieved certain agreements concerning POW exchanges. There is an understanding of the situation. We will only have to agree the political component of one of the points discussed in Minsk," Pushilin was quoted as saying by his spokesperson.