10:46 29.04.2015

OSCE Troika calls for setting up working groups to implement Minsk agreements

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OSCE Troika calls for setting up working groups to implement Minsk agreements

The ministerial troika of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), consisting of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter in Belgrade on Tuesday discussed various aspects of the situation in and around Ukraine, including the formation of working groups in line with Minsk agreements.

The meeting was also attended by the Organization's Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, the OSCE press service reported on Tuesday.

The OSCE Troika expressed full support for the work of the Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office to the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, in particular on the establishment of working groups, and stressed that the political process was essential to overcome the crisis.

The foreign ministers called for the immediate establishment of working groups as provided for in the February 12 package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

"In that context, they called upon all sides to a first meeting in Minsk as soon as possible," the statement reads.

Following consultations by the foreign ministers on the names of the OSCE representatives to the working groups, the chairman-in-office appointed the candidates for the heads of these groups.

Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan has been nominated for the head of the working group on security, Ambassador Pierre Morel for the head of the working group on political affairs, Thomas Mirow for the head of the working group on economic affairs, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini as an interim head of the working group on humanitarian affairs.

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