No need for Contact Group meeting in next few days - Kuchma
KYIV. Dec 10 (Interfax) - Ukraine's second president Leonid Kuchma does not see any need to hold a Contact Group meeting on Donbas crisis in the next few days.
"In a situation where the second party is unable to ensure the ceasefire regime, I do not consider this meeting expedient," he told Interfax on Wednesday.
"Let them show that they do actually want peace and not war, that they are fully in control over armed formations," he said.
The Ukrainians proposed meeting in Minsk on December 9, at the same time as the "day of silence" in Donbas, but this proposal was rejected for unknown reasons, Kuchma said.
"The Ukrainian side will be ready for the next meeting under a total ceasefire," he said.
It was reported earlier that the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, consisting of Kuchma, representatives from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, was to meet in Minsk at the end of this week. December 12 was named as a possible date. .