LUHANSK. Oct 20 (Interfax) - An extraordinary meeting of the security subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for settling the conflict in Donbas initiated by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) has been cancelled again.
"We've received official notification on Ukraine's repeated refusal to discuss the immediate release and return of our monitor Andriy Kosyak and develop measures to ensure security of LPR and DPR [self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic] representatives to the JCCC [the Joint Ceasefire Control and Coordination Center] while they perform their duties on the line of contact in keeping with the JCCC functions," LPR foreign minister Vladislav Deinego said in a statement.
Deinego said on Tuesday that Yasar Cevik, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) coordinator of the TCG security subgroup, notified LPR representatives that the subgroup's emergency meeting would not take place because of the absence of Kyiv's consent.
LPR representative to the TCG's political subgroup Rodion Miroshnyk said on October 13 that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had captured an unarmed LPR representative to the JCCC while he was monitoring maintenance work in the demilitarized zone near Zolote.
Kyiv said later its security forces detained a former military service member suspected of "committing a grave crime covered by Ukrainian Criminal Code Article 115 in 2010." Ukraine said weapons and ammunition were seized from the detainee.