Donetsk People's Republic wants peace process meeting put off till Dec 12
MOSCOW. Dec 6 (Interfax) - A senior member of the parliament of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic on Saturday suggested that the contact group on eastern Ukraine meet on December 12 rather than on December 9 as announced earlier.
"I would like us to hold our next round of consultations in Minsk on Friday December 12," Denis Pushilin, deputy chairman of the Supreme Council, told Interfax.
Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had said: "So far a preliminary agreement has been reached that the meeting in Minsk will take place on December 9."
Poroshenko, who was speaking at an airport in Chuhuyiv, Kharkiv region, said the meeting was expected to result in the approval of a schedule for the implementation of earlier Minsk agreements to cease fire and withdraw heavy weapons, and organizing the monitoring of the agreements by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.