The first in this year meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the situation in Donbas will be held in Minsk on Monday, January 16, spokesperson for Ukraine's representative in the contact group, second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Darka Olifer has told Interfax-Ukraine.

"A meeting of the TCG will take place in Minsk on January 16," Olifer told the agency on Friday.