MINSK, 16 May (BelTA) - The talks promoting peace settlement in Ukraine's east have resumed in Minsk, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The meeting of the trilateral contact group in the Belarusian capital was preceded by the talks of its working groups.
The previous talks on Ukraine were held in the Belarusian capital on 4 May. Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik stressed an important achievement in restoring Vodafone-Ukraine mobile communication in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This was a major achievement of the Trilateral Contact Group, especially of its Working Group on Economic Issues. The Working Groups continued on their discussion on the exchange of detainees and the conditions of their detention as well as the implementation of the so-called ‘Steinmeier formula'.
