A regular meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE) was held in the format of a video conference, the President's Office reported.

At the working group on security issues, the head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Yashar Halit Cevik noted that the parties adhere to a full and comprehensive ceasefire.

Also, OSCE SMM observers have not recorded civilian casualties since the beginning of the ceasefire declaration..

OSCE Special Representative to TCG Heidi Grau Highlights Progress on Security Issues.

Trilateral Contact Group fully agreed on a framework decision on mine action that will form the basis for future humanitarian demining work.

Coordinates of 19 priority demining sites were agreed. The twentieth site near Zolote will be cleared of mines as part of the work to open an additional checkpoint in this area, which is tentatively scheduled for November.

In addition, in the TKG, four next areas for the disengagement of forces and equipment were fundamentally agreed.; The security team was tasked with developing a detailed plan and finalizing a draft addendum to the Trilateral Contact Group's Framework Decision on the disengagement of forces and assets of 21 September 2016.

Heidi Grau expressed gratitude to the parties for adhering to the ceasefire and urged them to do everything possible to keep it.

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Within the framework of the working group on humanitarian issues, the Ukrainian side completed all the necessary procedures, providing the OSCE with information on the detainees requested by the other side within the framework of mutual release.

Ukraine has been awaiting information on the state and whereabouts of the requested persons held in the temporarily occupied territories for more than a month.

OSCE Coordinator Tony Frisch said it is inadmissible to link the release of detainees with extraneous issues. He called on all participants to complete the exchange of lists for the mutual release of detainees and removed other issues from consideration due to the blocking of the negotiation process for political reasons..

Denis Kazansky, a representative of certain districts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian delegation, appealed to other negotiators to unblock the process of mutual release of detainees, taking into account the hardships experienced by people in prison.

Within the framework of the political group, the parties discussed the possibility of unblocking the negotiation process. Representatives of the Russian Federation in the TCG insist on amending the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 795 of July 15, 2020.

The Ukrainian side has repeatedly shown a constructive position. The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kravchuk recalled that he sent a letter to the Verkhovna Rada about the possibility of considering the compliance of the said resolution with the Minsk agreements and is now awaiting a response from the Ukrainian parliament in accordance with the regulations. However, the Russian side continues to postpone most of the agenda items and postpones their consideration.

Head of the Ukrainian delegation - President of Ukraine in 1991-1994. Leonid Kravchuk urged the participants in the consultations not to tie the implementation of the agreements reached at the previous TCG meeting on demining and disengagement areas for the consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of his appeal on the compliance of the resolution on the appointment of local elections with the provisions of the Minsk agreements. According to him, the consideration of the relevant issue by the Ukrainian parliament provides for a number of procedures, the implementation of which takes time..

The Ukrainian delegation did not accept the attempts of the Russian delegation to assess the activities of the Verkhovna Rada, the government and the President of Ukraine.

“TCG is not competent to assess the activities of any government. This is not the competence of TCG "

Within the framework of the group on social and economic issues, the issue of payments for former employees of Ukrzaliznytsia was discussed. In particular, Ukraine has extended the period of payment of the deposited salary through Oschadbank's Shvydka kopiyka fast transfer system until mid-October in order to guarantee the payment of salaries to former employees of the Donetsk and Lugansk directorates of Ukrzaliznytsia JSC. We are talking about almost 4,700 people.

The Ukrainian side advocated the creation of an expert commission with the participation of international experts to monitor the environmental situation in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (including the territories controlled by Kiev).

The Ukrainian delegation in today's meeting was also attended by representatives of certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, who are currently internally displaced persons..

The next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group is scheduled for September 16.