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The Ukrainian side to the Trilateral Contact Group on Tuesday announced the conditions for the implementation of the political bloc of the Minsk agreements on Donbas settlement, says Darka Olifer, press secretary for Ukraine's envoy, ex-president Leonid Kuchma.

She noted that during the Minsk meeting of the TCG's socio-economic subgroup, the Ukrainian side once again raised the issue of the need to have the occupied areas of Donbas stoop using the Russian ruble, return seized Ukrainian state-owned and private property, and restore tax payments to the Ukrainian state budget in strict accordance with Ukrainian legislation.

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According to Olifer's post on Facebook, the Ukrainian side emphasized that the implementation of the political bloc of issues that are part of the Minsk Agreements is possible only if the following conditions have been met: the dissolution of the 'LPR/DPR' quasigroups and a complete ceasefire, effective monitoring by the OSCE SMM throughout Ukraine, withdrawal from Ukraine of the armed forces, foreign troops, and military equipment, pullback of forces and assets along the entire line of contact, operation of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, Ukraine political parties, media and foreign observers, as well as the establishment of control over the Ukrainian-Russian border section now beyond Ukraine's control, and the implementation of other measures stipulated by Ukrainian and international legislation and the Minsk agreements.