15:05 22.10.2016

Release of hostages will be key issue at talks on 'roadmap' - Gerashchenko

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Release of hostages will be key issue at talks on 'roadmap' - Gerashchenko

European partners during talks in the Normandy Four format in Berlin have supported Ukraine's position regarding the need for progress in the release of hostages, therefore this question will be the key one in the negotiations on the so-called "roadmap," in particular at the talks of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group Iryna Gerashchenko has stated.

"The humanitarian issue sounded rather emotionally at the last meeting in Berlin, although two-thirds of which were devoted to security issues, ceasefire regime, withdrawal of weapons, Ukraine's Debaltseve. For the first time it was so topical issue, because, as a rule, earlier security and the political block were discussed," she wrote on her Facebook page.

According to her, the Ukrainian side raised the question of releasing hostages and access of the International Committee of the Red Cross to prisons in the occupied territories and in the Russian Federation.

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