Events

MINSK, 4 April (BelTA) – The next session of the trilateral contact group on resolving the situation in Ukraine’s east will take place on 18 April, BelTA learned from the OSCE’s special representative in the trilateral contact group on Ukraine Martin Sajdik on 4 April.

The diplomat summed up results of the talks held on 4 April. The subgroup on economic affairs continued discussing further steps needed to restore mobile communication service from Vodafone Ukraine Company in certain parts of Donetsk Oblast and Lugansk Oblast. The subgroup also continued discussing the payment of pensions, water supply, and the return of the railway cars, which are now outside the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government.

The subgroup on humanitarian affairs continued discussing the exchange of prisoners of war and the improvement of conditions for crossing the contact line via checkpoints, in particular, in Stanitsa Luganskaya.

The subgroup on political affairs focused on the implementation of the so-called Steinmeier formula and on amnesty.