MINSK. Sept 5 (Interfax) - The Ukraine-OSCE-Russia Trilateral Contact Group assisting in the settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine will converge in Minsk on Friday.
The meeting will be held in the afternoon, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry press service told Interfax on Thursday. Accredited journalists will gather at the President Hotel by 1 p.m. Minsk time (2 p.m. Moscow time).
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry did not disclose the representation level of the Contact Group meeting and its venue.
Russian Ambassador in Kyiv Mikhail Zurabov, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and representative of the OSCE chairperson-in-office on Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini attended the previous meeting of the Contact Group held in Minsk on September 1. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was represented by its First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Purgin, and the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) by senior militia commander Alexei Karyakin.