Humanitarian subgroup to resume discussion of search-for-missing concept

DONETSK. May 16 (Interfax) - The Donbas conflicting sides have agreed to resume discussion of the search for missing persons, the human rights commissioner of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Daria Morozova, told the press on Thursday.

"All parties agreed at the meeting to resume discussion of a concept of the search for missing persons suggested by the International Committee of the Red Cross," Morozova said in comments on the Wednesday meeting of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine (TCG).

Closer discussion of the issue is planned for the next meeting, "which will enable joint constructive work and resolution of problems encountered by the families of missing persons on both sides of the contact line," she said.

Regrettably, no progress has been made in the discussion of detainees' rights, Morozova said.

The agreement was disregarded, and the humanitarian subgroup coordinator, OSCE Ambassador Tony Frisch was not allowed to visit Yulia Prosolova and certain other individuals reported by the Donetsk People's Republic to be inmates of Ukrainian penitentiaries," she said.

The TCG humanitarian subgroup held a video conference on May 15 to discuss the exchange of captives and the search for missing people.