The Ukrainian side in the Trilateral Contact Group is ready to return to face-to-face negotiations on the territory of any neutral country, but it will not return to Belarus.

This was said to UNN by the speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Oleksiy Arestovich.

" We can return to face-to-face negotiations, and we expressed our readiness, Reznikov expressed, even at the meeting before last. But in any other neutral country. A country that will accept all three sides, but not Minsk, "

When asked which countries are being considered, the speaker of the Ukrainian delegation did not answer, referring to the Copenhagen and Vienna conventions.

Regarding the position of the Russian side, according to Arestovich, "

As the newspaper notes, the representative of the Russian Federation in the TCG Boris Gryzlov, after the last negotiations, said that the Ukrainian delegation refused to return to the Russian side to the full-time format of negotiations in Minsk..

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the talks of the Trilateral Contact Group, which previously met in the Belarusian capital, are being held online.

The issue of postponing the TCG meetings from Minsk was raised after the protests in the country in connection with the results of the presidential elections and the brutality of the security forces against civilians. Thus, Ukraine does not recognize the secret inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko as President of Belarus.