MINSK. Jan 29 (Interfax) - The proposals of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)'s Special Envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group Martin Sajdik for a Donbas settlement are not a subject for the Minsk talks, Ukraine's TCG envoy, Yevhen Marchuk, said.
"These are Mr. Sajdik's personal contemplations. There are many such plans from various people. But this is not a plan of an organization, not a plan of a structure. It is not a subject for the Minsk talks in organizational or practical terms," the Belarusian state news agency BelTA quoted Marchuk as saying.
Sajdik said in an interview published in the Monday issue of the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung that he had proposed a new peace plan for Donbas to replace the Minsk Agreements.
The diplomat said the new plan was presented at the last meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan in December, which was attended by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France.
The plan envisages that the UN and the OSCE act not in parallel, but together under a common leadership headed by a special representative; this would concern both the UN's military and police components and the OSCE Monitoring Mission, which is already operating.
The European Union would be called upon to set up a reconstruction agency to act in all districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, similar to the one the EU created in the Balkans.
The plan also envisages the establishment of a transitional UN administration in Donbas, which would monitor the implementation of the peace plan and reintegration.
Sajdik also said the Minsk Agreements stipulate that Donbas representatives be involved in the process and be heard, "and is should be so, even after the adoption of a new, comprehensive agreement."