Head of self-proclaimed Luhansk republic signs security documents initialed in Minsk

LUHANSK. March 3 (Interfax) - Head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) Ihor Plotnytsky, has signed documents aimed at improving security in Donbas, LPR envoy to the Minsk talks, Vladyslav Deinego, said.

"LPR head Ihor Plotnytsky has signed the Contact Group's decision on mine-clearing activities, and the Contact Group's decision to fully stop exercises (training) involving live firing," LuhanskInformCenter quoted Deinego as saying on Wednesday evening.

Earlier on Wednesday, the participants in a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group to settle the conflict in Donbas, in Minsk, had initialed two documents concerning security. Deinego had said that "one of the drafts concerns the clearing of territories of mines" and the second "concerns bans on holding exercises involving live firing within the security area."