Roman Bezsmertny, Ukraine's representative to the political subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group for the settlement of the Donbas crisis, has announced a Contact Group meeting will take place on February 23-24.

"The next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group is scheduled for February 23-24. The subgroups will hold their meetings on those days too. They will continue to discuss modalities of possible elections on the occupied Donbas territories. The amnesty issue will be discussed at the political subgroup's meeting. The security subgroup's meeting will analyze the current situation, the demining procedure, and matters related to fragrant violations of the arms withdrawal protocol. The humanitarian subgroup will confer on the subject of the prisoner swap. The economic [subgroup will address] restoration of power and water supply, water filtering, rail and motor traffic, and the opening of new checkpoints for trucks, cars and pedestrians," Bezsmertny said in an interview published by the newspaper Segodnya, on Friday.

He said he hoped that those meetings would have an effect on the 'Normandy Four' dialogue at the level of ministers or chiefs of state.

A source in the group organizing the negotiations, said, on February 17, that the Contact Group for Ukraine would rendezvous in Minsk, on February 24.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said, on February 18, that the 'Normandy Four' foreign ministers (Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia) might meet on March 3.