In Minsk have agreed on the challenge of weapons of caliber up to 100 mm in the Donbas

In Minsk, the meeting of the Tripartite Liaison Group on the settlement of the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine.

The OSCE Representative Martin Saydik said that at the meeting the parties again failed to reach agreement on the withdrawal from the line of demarcation weapons caliber of less than 100 millimeters, informs television channel "112 Ukraine".

Saydik said that the subgroup on safety while continuing to discuss this issue

The Representative also said that in today's political subgroup discussed the issue of amending the Constitution, the question of the special status of Donbass and the possibility of holding local elections.

In general Saydik began his statement by expressing concern about the escalation of the Donbas, parties to the conflict in violation of the ceasefire, and reminded all the commitments undertaken in the framework of the Minsk Agreement.

Who exactly is penalized who does this escalation, Saydik said.

On Twitter, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported that at a meeting in Minsk, consultations were held with representatives from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

"End of the Tripartite consultations of the contact group with representatives from selected areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions," - informed the Foreign Ministry of Belarus.

The names of the representatives of the occupied territories of Donbass in the negotiations did not specify.

The information that the representatives of terrorists took part in the talks in Minsk, confirmed by a spokesman for the Ukrainian representative in the tripartite contact group, ex-president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma Dark Olifer.

"Minsk is working. Trilateral meeting of the contact group continued with the participation of representatives of separate regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions," - she wrote on his page on Facebook.

Around 18:00 subgroup coordinators from the OSCE voiced their reports.

Presidential Commissioner for the peaceful settlement of the situation in the Donbass Irina Gerashchenko said that during the talks achieved some progress in the working group on humanitarian issues.

In the so-called Ministry of Defence "DNI", they said that the terrorists have started preparing an exchange of prisoners according to the "12 by 12".

In the evening it became known that the process of exchange of prisoners halted in connection with the fire, which is a few kilometers from the place of transfer of prisoners. It may take place in the morning of Thursday 27 August.

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As reported by the "Observer", on the agenda of the negotiations of the contact group on August 26, the implementation of all components of the Minsk Agreement.

There will also be a meeting of representatives of the four working groups - on security, economic, political and humanitarian issues.

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